Halfway down the Danube

Living with Calvin

I've long known that I'm living with a comic book fan. (I mean, we have about thirty boxes of comic books in storage in the States. That's not counting what we have here!) Little did I know that I am also living with a comic book figure.

Do you know Calvin and Hobbes? Very delightful comic about a very, hm, unusual little boy and his (imaginary) tiger. Written by the incredible Bill Watterson and, alas, long since discontinued.

Anyway, a couple of days ago, I came across one of the Calvin strips in which he creates a physical embodiment of his better half. "Good" Calvin looks a bit different from "normal" Calvin... Here's a picture from this strip, so you can see for yourself[1]:

And then yesterday, my little boy came home from the park. Unlike his usual dishevelled and dirty appearance, he was clean and neat. The nanny had decided to wash him before coming home. I was spooked. Here's how he looked, and how he normally looks:

See what I mean? It's uncanny, eh?

[Disclaimer: It's hard to find C&H strips on the net, due to copyright and all that. I had to take a photograph of the actual book in order to show you this. So I'm carefully noting that all copyrights lie with the author and the publishing company, of course. Just quoting, is what I'm doing.]

Posted by claudia at September 7, 2004 01:07 PM