Calvin's bully, troubles in school, and horrible food are all running jokes in Calvin and Hobbes, but every one of them happening in a single day is a challenge.

On Nov. 18, 1985, a new comic strip made its newspaper debut: Calvin and Hobbes. ... serious, and smart -- the kind of girl I was attracted to in high school and eventually married.

He read in the car on the way to school and then on the way home. ... I’ve read my fair share of parenting books, but I’d put “Calvin & Hobbes” at the top of the list of required reading.

The most remarkable thing about reading Calvin and Hobbes today is just how alien it feels to the world of 20 years hence. Calvin watches TV, sure, but he doesn’t have the internet or a smartphone.

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 laments to Hobbes the coming end of summer, and how quickly it went by: “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you want.” Even though I was 20 at the time, it made me miss ...

All Calvin cares about are those warm summer days where he and Hobbes tramp out to the middle of the woods and go soaring past the trees and rocks and brooks on their rickety old sled that has yet to ...

Every time Calvin comes home from school, Hobbes zooms out the door, tackles Calvin (KAPOW!), and they tumble in the yard. After all, Hobbes has been waiting all day to play, ...

I have to be careful not to read Calvin and Hobbes anywhere that demands a certain measure of decorum; even now, in my early 30s, I just can't help myself — I laugh out loud every single time ...

“Nothing is permanent. Everything changes. That’s the one thing we know for sure in this world,” Calvin says to Hobbes in the first panel of a two-panel strip that ran in more than two ...

Delightfully, the full body of Calvin and Hobbes has been immortalized in a gorgeous hardcover set of books, and for Cyber Monday, Amazon is offering a 50% discount, making the entire library just ...