Not every four-panel comic strip is going to use words in every strip, and Calvin and Hobbes has quite a few speechless comics that are excellent.

Calvin and Hobbes is considered one of the best comic strips ever created for one main reason: it perfectly captures what it is to be a kid. From Calvin’s dislike of school and chores, to his very ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There were rousing games of Calvinball, an unorganized sport with no consistent rule structure. Calvin’s alter-ego, Spaceman Spiff, fought off dastardly aliens and kept his imaginary universe safe.

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Hi Kotaku, and welcome to the evening Off Topic post. You know Calvinball, right? It's the game that Calvin and his tiger Hobbes would play in ...

Bill Watterson’s return to print, after nearly three decades, comes in the form of a fable called “The Mysteries,” which shares with his famous comic strip a sense of enchantment.

Moshe Levi is a freelance writer. The only rule of Calvinball, as played by the titular protagonists of the popular comic strip Calvin and Hobbes, is that you can never play it the same way twice ...

Calvinball provided philosophical fodder in Calvin and Hobbes, but its ever-shifting ruleset makes real-world play confusing at best. But guess what?

"Calvin and Hobbes" creator Bill Watterson has released a new adult fable after formerly retiring in 1995.