Serious Business/Newspaper Comics

• In one Calvin and Hobbes strip, Calvin throws an enormous hissy fit after losing a game of checkers to Hobbes. When Hobbes points out that it's just a game, Calvin cheerfully replies: "I know! You should see how I act when I lose in real life!"
  • Chewing gum is Serious Business in the Calvin and Hobbes universe. Calvin is an enthusiastic reader of a magazine called "Chewing" which is dedicated to it, and informs an incredulous Hobbes that as many as twelve such publications exist.
  • So is a Snowball Fight.
  • And he treats his snowman creations like modern art. Though he certainly puts more thought into them than most kids.
    • Considering that they come to life and try to kill him...
      • This is Calvin. Everything comes to life, and most of it tries to kill him.
• The Far Side once had a Showdown At High Noon having ended in defeat for the older cowboy, treating it with all the gravity you'd expect... except it was at ping-pong.

Older gunslinger: Well, you won. Now every player in the world will come after you, looking to make a name for himself... Welcome to Hell, kid.

• This Dilbert strip illustrates how to apply the principles of Serious Business in the workplace.
  • This comic was based on one of Scott Adams' coworkers, who actually said "I will fight you to the end of the earth!" To him, it was serious business.
• Board games are apparently serious business to Rat in Pearls Before Swine.