As it told the story of a six-year-old boy's life, Calvin and Hobbesregularly featured Calvin's adventures in school. His hatred for Miss Wormwood, disdain for his classmates, and ever-escalating ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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.” ...