How’s this for a perfect gift for... well, just about anyone. Including yourself. Here we have a beautiful, four-volume paperback edition of the complete Calvin and Hobbes, perhaps the greatest strip ...

Bill Watterson published thousands of Calvin and Hobbes strips, but some essential quotes stand out. Dust specks and ...

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 ...

Ask anyone you know, young or old, and they probably have memories of laughing at the antics of an adventurous 6-year-old boy named Calvin and his sardonic yet philosophical tiger friend, Hobbes, in ...

Pause your game of Calvinball for a minute, please. Today is a special anniversary, not just in the world of comics, but for friendship, too. On November 18, 1985, 30 years ago, the first Calvin and ...

When I think of Calvin, that glorious little menace, I first remember the depth of his imagination. His was an external life born explicitly of the internal: distant planets, bed monsters, mutant ...

“A new year … a fresh, clean start!” a joyous boy in red mittens said a quarter-century ago this week shortly before soaring forth on the most famous sled in American arts this side of “Citizen Kane.” ...

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 ...

These days, most people have a complex relationship with television. Whether they want it or not, it has wormed its way into their lives. So, unsurprisingly, television plays a decent role in many ...