On this date, Nov. 18, 1985, a wild kid and his pet tiger entered our lives.

Our youngest daughter was born the following year and I think Calvin was secretly telling how to live.

She had a tiger as well, a stuffed Tigger from Disney

Such a trip. I love Calvin and Hobbes.

I subscribed to the paper just for that comic strip!

miss them so much ... also miss Opus ...
2 of the best ... but C & H was always good
Opus was political and didn't always like it.

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It's a lot more sporadic because he only does it when he has an idea he likes, rather than grinding things out for syndication.

And to circle it back to C&H, you may want to check out The Compleat Bloom'n Hobbes from last year.

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(This is not part of that, this is the latest new one from Facebook):

I have several books of collections of the strip. He got hooked and read all of them. He's 9 now.

At its best it was a wild trip through their fantasies and if you grabbed hold and played along you could get to some amazing places.

I adore C&H.

.....pretty great yourself, in my book. Thanks for the nice post.

.....saw the strip on a business trip to San Francisco back then. Had read several days of the strip and was thinking "what an odd concept, a little boy who lives with a tiger". It was later in the week that the stuffed tiger toy first appeared and, after a moment of confusion, I realized that Hobbes was a product of Calvin's imagination and was unseen by the parents. It did and still does strike me as a wonderful concept.