“A new year … a fresh, clean start!” a joyous boy in red mittens said a quarter-century ago this week shortly before soaring forth on the most famous sled in American arts this side of “Citizen Kane.” ...

Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip that has inspired readers for generations. It evokes a wide range of emotions and often attempts to impart lessons to its audience. There are the fun strips that see ...

Calvin and Hobbes comics present a comical look at the holidays. These strips in particular prove perfect for bringing joy ...

40 years ago — on November 18, 1985 — a new comic strip appeared in the newspaper: Calvin and Hobbes. Hobbes was a stuffed tiger, but in the mind of 6-year-old Calvin he was a wryly observant ...

In today’s tech centered world, newspapers have started to become a thing of the past. Comic strips have gone with them. Just a few decades ago, newspapers were big business. On Sunday mornings in my ...

Who can blame Hobbes for falling into Calvin’s tiger trap 30 years ago — we all were captured too. On Nov. 18, 1985, Bill Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” made its debut in newspapers across the ...

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 and ...

From the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s, newspaper readers around the world followed the antics—and surprisingly poignant musings—of 6-year-old Calvin and his anthropomorphic tiger best friend, Hobbes, in ...

In 1985, cartoonist Bill Watterson introduced the world to a boy named Calvin and his tiger, named Hobbes. Their adventures, real and imagined, made for “the funniest, the most touching and the most ...

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Variety may receive an affiliate commission. Bill Watterson, creator of “Calvin and Hobbes,” has released a ...

Not many can claim to have been born six years old. 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 ...