OK……. So……. Apparently GoComics has skipped the final strip and returned to the beginning of the first full year of Calvin and Hobbes. Yesterday we were at the end of 1995, and today’s strip is from January 5, 1986. Besides that, today’s first panel says 1995, but this has been added to the 1986 strip. The original was marked 1986, not 1995. Here is the original strip, with no 1995 in the first panel, and with 1986 in the space between the two middle panels in the bottom row:Click here for archive, or stretch image below: Calvin and Hobbes (January 5, 1986)
Since the series has come to an end, I think that we should take today to pay tribute to Bill Watterson. Here is the final Calvin and Hobbes strip, from the last day of 1995:Click here for archive, or stretch image below: Calvin and Hobbes (December 31, 1995)And so, Calvin has the final word from Bill Watterson, as Calvin and Hobbes race downhill together and levitate above the ground one more time.And the final comment by Calvin’s ol’ buddy Hobbes, comparing the snow-covered ground to a big white sheet of paper, reminds us that this incredibly real world has been an imaginary one, in the form of an amazing comic strip.Thank you, Bill. We are all richer for having known you through Calvin and Hobbes. Thank you for the way in which you have touched our lives by transforming more than 3000 big white sheets of paper into a truly magical world.— “Hobbes”
OK……. So……. Apparently GoComics has skipped the final strip and returned to the beginning of the first full year of Calvin and Hobbes. Yesterday we were at the end of 1995, and today’s strip is from January 5, 1986. Besides that, today’s first panel says 1995, but this has been added to the 1986 strip. The original was marked 1986, not 1995. Here is the original strip, with no 1995 in the first panel, and with 1986 in the space between the two middle panels in the bottom row:Click here for archive, or stretch image below: Calvin and Hobbes (January 5, 1986)
Since the series has come to an end, I think that we should take today to pay tribute to Bill Watterson. Here is the final Calvin and Hobbes strip, from the last day of 1995:Click here for archive, or stretch image below: Calvin and Hobbes (December 31, 1995)And so, Calvin has the final word from Bill Watterson, as Calvin and Hobbes race downhill together and levitate above the ground one more time.And the final comment by Calvin’s ol’ buddy Hobbes, comparing the snow-covered ground to a big white sheet of paper, reminds us that this incredibly real world has been an imaginary one, in the form of an amazing comic strip.Thank you, Bill. We are all richer for having known you through Calvin and Hobbes. Thank you for the way in which you have touched our lives by transforming more than 3000 big white sheets of paper into a truly magical world.— “Hobbes”