Sunday With Calvin
Our favorite grade-schooler and tiger have been absent too long from these pages, something we’re rectifying today:
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SJS, your graphics and images are all squished on the main page but when I view individual posts they return to correct width.
Code is poetry…. 😕
Disregard my last. Must have had my hat on too tight. Now they’re correct but I swear they weren’t earlier.
Steve: No, you’re not going nuts (yet). I’ve found if you’re viewing in MS IE 6 or later they tend to do that until the page finishes loading. Firefox doesn’t (insert editorial comment about Micro$oft here)…
– SJS
My 9-year old son has every Calvin book and we hear about it all the time.
I, of course, can’t stop laughing just looking at Calvin… 😀
SJS, my favorite snow CH is the one where Calvin built the snowmen in front of his dads car like they are being run over. the parents in the house thinking about contacting a psychiatrist.
Sad day when Watterson stopped the strip (same with farside), sadder how nuts he’s getting nowadays.
Claudio: Found & posted per your wish …
– SJS