Calvin’s Transmogrifier is one of the most memorable of Calvin’s inventions in Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes strips. T he machine, made from a cardboard box, can transform any being or ...

Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most famous comic strips ever written. Bill Watterson wrote and drew these beloved comics daily from 1985 to 1995, and during that time, they appeared in newspapers ...

On Nov. 18, 1985, a new comic strip made its newspaper debut: Calvin and Hobbes.It featured a small boy wearing a pith helmet who announced that day that he was going to check his tiger trap.

Calvin offers the means of enchantment for seeing reality properly. This is well illustrated in the June 3, 1995, daily. (The brief black-and-white weekday strips of “Calvin and Hobbes” often ...

But Calvin and Hobbes also took readers deep into Calvin’s adventures as the sci-fi hero Spaceman Spiff, or into soap opera–style strips when he would play more down-to-earth games of pretend ...

Calvin and Hobbes, amidst the discussions of morality, consumerism, and existentialism, is the escapist story of a six-year-old boy and his ambiguously imaginary friend. The relatability of Calvin’s ...

Cartoonist Bill Watterson didn’t predict the current world when Calvin and Hobbes comic strips ran from 1985 until 1995, but even the final strip makes sense of life during the coronavirus pandemic.

“Calvin and Hobbes” sledded away for the last time Dec. 31, 1995 but is still influential today. Accessibility statement Skip to main content. Democracy Dies in Darkness. Subscribe Sign in.

It's been 15 years since Calvin and his tiger buddy Hobbes pulled up and rather suddenly left the comics pages. Fans are still in mourning.

Calvin, the protagonist in Bill Watterson’s beloved comic strip, Calvin and Hobbes, is a 6-year-old boy prone to irrational outbursts, delusions of grandeur, and the occasional whimsy of taking ...

Ecstatic: Calvin and Hobbes brought to life, yay. Distraught: we’ll (probably) never see any new Calvin and Hobbes. Relieved: Calvin doesn’t talk.