On December 31st, 1995, just ten years after Watterson first began his monumental comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes had its ...

It was thirty years ago today that, after a ten year odyssey, one of the greatest comic strips ended its run. Calvin and ...

Calvin and Hobbes comics present a comical look at the holidays. These strips in particular prove perfect for bringing joy ...

Why would a pro running back at his peak decamp for India to study ancient healing science? Or a top cartoonist, not yet 40, suddenly decide to retire? That's what Bill Watterson did a decade ago.

Few comic strips are as wholesome as Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes, yet in the 1990s the duo faced legal trouble due to ...

In today’s tech centered world, newspapers have started to become a thing of the past. Comic strips have gone with them. Just a few decades ago, newspapers were big business. On Sunday mornings in my ...

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Let’s talk about childhood. It’s a turbulent way to start your time on this Earth, a period of great discovery and great frustration. Children are always learning new ways of coexisting with the world ...

40 years ago — on November 18, 1985 — a new comic strip appeared in the newspaper: Calvin and Hobbes. Hobbes was a stuffed tiger, but in the mind of 6-year-old Calvin he was a wryly observant ...

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, newspaper readers around the world followed the antics—and surprisingly poignant musings—of 6-year-old Calvin and his anthropomorphic tiger best friend, Hobbes, in ...