In the grand lexicon of newspaper comics, few have had the sustained popularity of Calvin and Hobbes. Despite ending over 30 years ago, Bill Watterson’s creation is still finding new fans every year, and it isn’t hard to see why. Calvin and Hobbes is a perfect comic strip: it is funny, the art is fantastic, and the characters are eternally endearing, even — or perhaps especially — when Calvin is driving his parents up the wall. The series is overflowing with great jokes, wonderful moments of honesty, plenty of philosophy, and some of the most inventive visuals to appear in a Sunday paper since the golden age of the medium.
After 37 Years, One Calvin & Hobbes Comic Is Still The Strip’s Most Emotional Storyline
