Comments on: Whence "Bitsy Pookums"?

Question: Whence "Bitsy Pookums"?

jwadhams — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:10:03 -0800

Remember the Calvin and Hobbes where Hobbes says he wants a girl he can call "Bitsy Pookums"?

Well, I do, and lets just say that someone special to me has reason to ask "why do you keep calling me that?" I haven't been able to find it in my small compilation collection.

I've got the massive, authoritative, expensive compilation on my Santa's List this year, but "it's somewhere in those three volumes you don't own yet" isn't totally helpful to me. Does anyone know which original compilation it was in? Or the date of original publication? Thanks!

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:14:44 -0800

Here is Bitsy Pookums. Found via The Calvin and Hobbes Searchable Databank.

By: skynxnex

skynxnex — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:19:16 -0800

Hm. Of course, after posting my comment, I find the uExpress link doesn't work. Well, go to the searchable link and search for "bitsy" and it'll find you the image and the date. It's from August, 1987. And Wikipedia page on Calvin and Hobbes says that's first in "Yukon Ho!" and then collected also in the multibook set "The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes".

By: MrMoonPie

MrMoonPie — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:39:11 -0800

Here is Bitsy Pookums.

By: spicynuts

spicynuts — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:05:13 -0800

Good job, snoogy woogy!!!

By: filmgeek

filmgeek — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:06:43 -0800

Does that mean you're now snoogy woogy?

By: teece

teece — Wed, 07 Dec 2005 10:33:14 -0800

With the help of skynxnex, it is the comic from 29 August 1987. In the big compilation, if you should get it for Christmas, it's in Volume 1, page 317, last strip on that page.