Unless you’re a fan of Calvin and Hobbes it’s probably hard to understand the emotional void that was created when Watterson retired his comic strip after only 10 years. It had soul, wit, astute social commentary, and–at times–stunning and innovative visuals. The story of a friendship between an imaginative and mischievous 6 year old and his best friend Hobbes, a stuffed tiger to the rest of the world but, to Calvin, very real, Calvin and Hobbes had it all as a comic. On the last day of 1995, cartoonist Bill Watterson published the last strip in what was, and remains, one of the most popular, beloved, and insightfully human comic strips in the history of the art.
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