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 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.

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 ...

One day recently we had found a stack of Calvin & Hobbes books in the “free” bin outside the local library. It had been years since I had read the books.

As 1995 drew to a close, so did one of the most beloved comic strips of its era, Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes.. In that final strip, seen in newspapers on Dec. 31, 1995, six-year-old Calvin ...

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 ...

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, of “Calvin and Hobbes,” proves the exception to that rule. Bill Watterson drew the first of the now-iconic comics in November of 1985, and the last in 1995.