Calvin and Hobbes Invented Calvinball Calvinball First Appeared on May 5th, 1990. Before the two best friends put on masks and began playing, no one had ever heard of Calvinball. Calvin ...

When adults are not around Calvin sees Hobbes as a life-size tiger, standing upright on his hind legs and participating in Calvin’s hi-jinks. My favorite running gag in the strip was Calvinball.

On November 18, 1985, 30 years ago, the first Calvin and Hobbes comic strip was published. Pause your game of Calvinball for a minute, please. Wednesday is a special anniversary, not just in the ...

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 was a comic strip published by Universal Syndicate from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. Created by Bill Watterson ... Some noted the seemingly random and arbitrary rules to ...

The final “Calvin and Hobbes” strip was fittingly published on a Sunday – Dec ... “Spaceman Spiff, Tracer Bullet, Calvinball, G.R.O.S.S., the wagon rides, Calvin’s battles with his ...

One of our favorite tropes from Bill Watterson’s brilliant comic strip Calvin and Hobbes was “Calvinball.” The eponymous 6-year-old boy invented the game because he didn’t care for ...

The daily comic strip Calvin and Hobbes ended more than two decades back. Yet, so iconic were Bill Watterson’s stories about a temperamental six-year old boy and his stuffed tiger that they ...

In this Wednesday, Oct. 23, 2013 photo, Jenny Robb holds a "Calvin and Hobbes" comic by cartoonist Bill Watterson at the Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum in Columbus, Ohio.

“Calvin and Hobbes” sledded away for the last time Dec. 31, 1995 but is still influential today.