I was just thinking about how nice it is not to have to worry about mosquitoes so much these last couple weeks (I like leaving a window open even when it gets cool) and remembered this strip.

Probably half or more of my friends are at least moderate Calvin and Hobbes readers. I wonder who the real nerds are, though. Like, having all of the books, writing to Bill Watterson (response both times: form letter [signed by hand or autopen, I don’t know which] plus a large Sunday print on nice paper), etc. I used to play a game with my sister where one of us would read part of a strip and the other would recite the rest of it. For a little while when I was a kid I cut out daily strips and taped them to pages in a binder so I could read them over and over until the next collection came out. Finally, I still have a recurring dream in which I discover a new C&H book in a bookstore. Today is weird confession day on my tumblr.

Bonus: A book review + Peanuts eulogy, written by Watterson, that I missed when it ran in the Wall Street Journal two years ago.