[Slings and Arrows]

No comment needed.

[VRWCmember]

Tiger ping.

[Slings and Arrows]

Snowmen the world over, tremble!

[battlecry]

His last cartoon was a classic.

[DManA]

Yea but what has he been doing the past 15 years? (not that it’s really any of my business)

[Major Matt Mason]

One of those comics that I didn't "get". I read it on a number of occasions, and never even cracked a smile. Highly overrated.

[Sunshine Sister]

I loved Calvin and Hobbs! I miss it to this minute. That little boy was so much fun!

Having said that I fully understand why the cartoonist would want to move on!

[Vaquero]

All Wee Wee’d Up

[nutmeg]

I miss Calvin's hilarious "snowman families"... great comic.

Are the old C&H strips still being run in newspapers today, ie like "Peanuts"?

[paulycy]

[Hot Tabasco]

I enjoyed C and H whenever I read them but I didn't make it a point to.

My favorites were the snow men in various death poses. I made one one winter and laid it in my driveway with a hatchet stuck in its forehead and an arrow sticking out of its chest. The neighbors really got a kick out of it.......

[Stand Watch Listen]

[a fool in paradise]

There was an exhibit of his comic strips at Ohio State University (I think in 2001). Since the attendence is capped around 250 people and he’d spoken there before, I think it’s possible that he did poke his head above ground there and made a rare public appearance (with interview).

He’s not the only JD Salinger or Greta Garbo of comics. Steve Ditko also has wanted to be left alone, with his work standing on its own (his later decades work being largely self-published Ayn Rand influenced comics).

[Charles Henrickson]

My two favorite comic strips of all time:

Calvin and Hobbes
The Far Side

Both brilliant.

[GBA]

Calvin and Hobbes, Bloom County and The Farside were the three best comics ever. They are greatly missed.

[Mr. K]

This was the picture on my desktop and a huge poster on my wall for YEARS!!! I wish and dream for days like this again and I do everything possible to make sure my little children have days like this to remember

nothign to do but enjoy the woods on a nice suny day...

[SuziQ]

We LOVED “Calvin and Hobbes”, and still have several books of the comic strips.

[Salgak]

The appropriate Illustration for ANY "Calvin and Hobbes" thread:

[rintense]

Loved Calvin and Hobbes. Miss them...

Someone posted a comic from another writer that showed what happened to Calvin and Hobbes (died in sledding accident). Anyone have it to post again?

[I still care]

The funny thing is, I was reading my Calvin book last night, laughing hysterically. My favorite ones were where Calvin imagined himself as Spaceman Spiff, and one particular one where his Mom drags him off to school, and he’s yelling, “Unhand me, Zorg Queen!”

The one that brought back a true childhood memory was the tidal wave in the bathtub. Back...and forth...back...and forth...Tidal Wave!

[Skenderbej]

My girlfriend bought me the 3-book hardcover set for full retail when it first came out...that’s how I knew she was the one, and we got engaged a week later =)