Final Calvin and Hobbes - Last Comic - by Bill Watterson for December 31, 1995

What an awful way to end Calvin and Hobbes!!!!!!!!!!!

I think this strip is a beautiful way to say good-bye to Calvin & Hobbes. It is leaving us with the idea that the story keeps going even if it isn’t being written and drawn anymore. “Full of Possibilities,” is the line Calvin uses, and it makes you smile at this farewell, rather than be merely depressed at the ending of the series.

It was sad to see the end of Calvin and Hobbes but “it’s a magical world”, says Calvin, and we should be happy that we were able to get them in the first place. The series may be over, but the spirit of Calvin and Hobbes will never die in our hearts.

What a way to go.

Sigh.

Perfect.

Now let’s go exploring!

This is the actual comic for this date, even though previous Sundays in the GoComics archives have been re-runs out of order.

i have been reading this comic since i was seven and i feel as though a little part of me died… (no not really) but this is still an amazing comic!!! Bill Watterson is my hero!!!!!!!!!!

copcap86,

Those “new” comics are repeats of the original. If you follow those back up to 1985, you’ll see that they’re the same.

And yes, I made this account just to tell you that.

that was so beautiful. i love the way they did it.

Lov………..it……………….I WILL TOO EXPLORE WITH U CALVIN…………

I cry ever time I read this one. What a great comic.

I love u Calvin and Hobbes! <3 Calvin and Hobbes!

Bill Watterson is owed a debt of gratitude for sharing his syndication experiences with budding cartoonists. He, as well as those cartoonists, know what I mean. THANK YOU, Bill!

Bill Watterson, thank you for the past 10 years of comics. Including: G.R.O.S.S. Spaceman spiff, stupendous man etc. The 2 Transmogrifiers Gross dinners polls babysitter girl Moe the bully Snowball fights snowmen and other things I didn’t mention THE END to C & H

Didn’t know what I was expecting… but this is not how I imagined my fav cartoon would end. Deep Sigh Anyway, Thanx a million, Bill!

the saddest C a H comic ever.

Brilliant, Mr. W. A beautiful ending to what is hands-down the BEST comic strip of all time!

WHAt a great ending

I wish that bill came back and rote more

We’ll miss you, Bill. Thanks for the amazing years that you shared with us your work and Calvin & Hobbes’ explorations. It’s a wonderful world, and much more wonderful for your work having been in it!

i can’t stand it…i don’t want it ever to end, I’m almost crying

aw man. I still read every book of this wonderful comic series.

SNIFF THIS MAKES ME SAD WHAT A EPIC ENDING XD

Calvin And Hobbes Is the Best Comic Strip Ever!!!!

Sigh… how wonderfully sad. The best comes last.

What a sad way to end it. :(

Awwwww, I’ve always grown up reading Calvin and Hobbes on snowy days…..what a perfect way to end an amazing comic strip. Thank you Bill Watterson

The last new Calvin and Hobbes, sigh, this would also make a great ending for a Calvin and Hobbes movie

Its like it never ended… :’ )

Thank you so much Mr. Watterson!

Bill, if your out there, thanks.

Full of possibilities !! Great way to end a great strip !! Thanks Bill !!

I find it strange that people are calling this sad. Is it sad because a beloved comic is ending? Because the image itself – the part that really matters – is full of hope and wonder. Calvin and Hobbes will always be Calvin and Hobbes; exploring and imagining, having the sorts of adventures that we loved them for.

The best way to end the Calvin and Hobbes strip…

What a great ending to a great comic, I wish Bill would’ve wrote/drew more Calvin and Hobbes, but it’s good that he ended on a high note rather than dragging it on.

i was sort of hopeing that the end would be when calvin ant see hobbs anymore either by losing him or growing up

Pants are overrated did a short continuation of the story that’s really cute.http://www.pantsareoverrated.com/archive/2011/05/10/hobbes-and-bacon/

What a bad way to end a comic strip series. It’s probably better if it’s like a “good-bye” feel strip.

This one is my inspiration in beginning retirement.

I thought this was a very touching, creative and imaginative way to end the strip. I think he’s urging us all to say “Goodbye” to the past and go exploring into the magnificent future. Exploring is a way to expand one’s perspective and wisdom, which implies that Calvin, which, to me, is a symbol for the curious and genius little child in each of us, is headed for a bright and exciting future — he’s going to finally grow up. Maybe I will, too.

Sad would be Calvin waking up and Hobbes is just a stuffed Tiger laying on the bed…

It’s interesting, I just looked back at the month of Dec 1995 his mother and father only appeared in one strip each.

yes, how symbolic isn’t it

I remember reading this in the paper that last day and crying and there was a note saying it was the last one and thanks to the readers…I still cry when I see this one. Beautiful ending…

I LOVE C&H. Sad to see it go. Thank you very much Bill Watterson.

Let’s go exploring!

Parting is such sweet sorrow.

Very appropriate as we get ready to receive the New Year, lets follow Calvin and Hobbes and ’Lets go exploring!

awesome comic from “so long pop, i’m off to check my tiger trap” to it’s a magical world hobbes old buddy, let’s go exploring"

This is the last calvin and hobbes sterip

I miss calvin and hobbes :(

Bill y u stop your still alive

The fake ending was pretty deep too if you think about it.

Goodbye, Calvin & Hobbes! You are greatly missed!

Goodbye Guys see you on the other side of the hill!

I am crying like my name is Rose Tyler and it’s Doomsday

Greatest way to end the strip. I couldn’t pick a favorite but this one brings a little tear to my eye…

my favorite comic strip. side by side with peanuts. the bliss of the innocent.remembering times when life was just life.

Perfection.

I remember when this was coming out. My local rag ran it two days or so as part of the news story about the end of the strip. I was totally pissed. Ruined it for me.

Berkeley Breathed came back. Maybe Bill Watterson will come back too?

This is the best way to end Calvin and Hobbes.

I will tell you all that this still brings tears to my eye whenever I see it. I loved Calvin and Hobbes so much as it was a reflection of my childhood and the magic and insight that came with being a child and having that special friend who was your comrade-in-arms…the one who knew all your secrets…the one who understood your imagination and who shared in all the good and bad things that you got up to. With this one page, you rejoice because it shows that that friendship will last forever. Thank you Bill Watterson

(Sniff) WHY COULDN’T HE CONTINUE THIS WHY??!!!

A great ending for a comic strip that lives on.C&H have many, many, many fans still.

My favorite comic series, from “So long, Pop! I’m off to check my tiger trap!” to “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, old buddy, let’s go exploring!”

Thanks for the memories. C & H ended before any of my kids were born but they hold pride of place as our collective favourite comic. Thanks, Bill

@ds133

I agree

A truly great way for an equally great strip to end

sigh I remember when i to finally know calvin and . At 7 years old, first met them. Lying around in my bookshelf. I finally grabbed the book and when i opened it, things seemed to look up. I know its sad that it ended, but i don’t think Bill would want us to be miserable. He rea

Bill gave us the joy of knowing that C & H are still out there exploring. This was the Gettysburg Address of comic strips. A sad farewell but an encouragement to look ahead. The world is a better place because of C & H.

first comment: What an awefull way to end C and H! Last comment: damn.

nobody comments on the first comics

go explore Calvin and Hobbes! you will be forever the embodiment of Wonder and Imagination!

It’s been over 22 years and I still miss Calvin and Hobbes:( Why is it my favorite comics of all time, C&H and The Far Side only lasted 10 years?? The comics page has never been the same for me without them:(

I hope Mr. Watterson will come to this site and see that to this very day, there are plenty of people still reading and loving Calvin and Hobbes’ old strips… It’s extremely unlikely, but I just hope this will happen someday…

thanks a million, bill, for 10 wonderful years. i will never forget how much i cried when i read the last strip

the THE series, that is.

R.I.P

Wait, it ended? So all along i’ve been reading re-runs?

What a sweet way to end it!

Bye

Most touching strip ever. Mr. Watterson, U R the greatest genius to ever walk the earth

I’m not crying…You’re crying

This is a wonderful strip! Thanks for the laughs, Bill

I could almost cry

<3 This is so sweet

I love that the last thing we ever see is Calvin and Hobbes descending into the forest about to go on their own adventures. “It’s a magical world Hobbes ol’ buddy.”…..“Let’s go exploring!”

Don’t know if you’re out there Bill. I don’t care what anyone says, this was the perfect ending! Makes me cry every time. I’ve been reading your comic strips for 27 years. Since I was seven years old. I will pass this legacy on to my children. I love the fact that I as a child I wouldn’t get some of the jokes, but years later when I re-read them, and they were hilarious!!! Thanks so much Bill!

I was never ready for Calvin and Hobbes to end, I mean, who was apart from Watterson? One day I saw some people writing short stories about the last days of C&H and wanted to share my idea. Hope you enjoy it! https://www.scotranney.com/Calvin-and-Hobbes-The-Last-Adventure.html

Calvin and Hobbes is to me the flip side of Christopher Robin and Winnie the Pooh. Christopher Robin was to me a shy kid whose toys came to life and acted out their gay and adventurous ways. The same was true of Dooley’s World (comic ran 1972-1978, cartoonist was Roger Bradfield). But Calvin was a Hellraiser who took his (sometimes reluctant) tiger companion on crazy exciting adventures.

This is the best end anyone could wish for. I wish Calvin and Hobbes could come back

This is the perfect strip to leave Calvin and Hobbes. It makes you smile through your tears. Just Calvin and his tiger buddy Hobbes, out on their adventures again!

I’m sad that it ended, but if it had to go, I’m glad this was the way it did.

Now that this adventure is over, it’s time for another one.

I’m not crying, YOU’RE crying. :’(

WWWWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i can’t say goodby even in 2020 to this amazing comic strip it was always there for me and my first comic i read and it’s all over.

I absolutely love this. It’s such a fitting end that leaves you with dozens of possibilities for what they will do in the future. Calvin and Hobbes will never end, as our imaginations keep them going.

Good is a bye, Calvin and Hobbes. ;’-)

Goodbye Calvin and Hobbes. Enjoy the comic afterlife. You will still live on in our hearts and the reruns GoComics is so kind to give us :( :( :(

I held out hope for a number of years that Mr Watterson would resolve the dispute with his syndicate and eventually start drawing new strips even if they were only for the books, I would have been among the first in line to buy them.

Thank you bill, for giving amazing memories, and I also applaud your decision to never make an animated cartoon, because I would have to hear their voices, and they would never be quite like the comics make you think of, so anyway, a big THANK YOU for an amazing childhood

Me and my brother always tried to play the games in c and h (with varying degrees of success) but my favorite to play will always be Calvinball, followed by the game where you hide flags and retrieve them while timed

Imagine if bill starts the comic back up with Calvin age 7, still doing his best to annoy Susie while Hobbes teases him about love, still making snow are of snowmen being viscously murdered, still playing Calvinball in the back yard with ever-changing rules, still contemplating life while sledding/riding a wagon off a cliff, still annoying miss wormwood (Now in 2nd grade), still driving his parents mad enough for them to think about adoption, still thinking about ways to get quick money (and cookies), and still going exploring into the unknown.

I love this strip! Brings a tear to my eyes that it ended.

:(

And the adventure continues…

This was the best way to end it

I just wished they hadn’t ended it

Who’s cutting onions ;-(

So long, Calvin and Hobbes. Keep exploring.

what a beautiful and heartwarming comic strip. thank you bill watterson.

This was my childhood. I loved these books and i will always keep them in my heart. Good bye, Calvin And Hobbes, you are inspiration to all of us.

Next panel: They crash into a tree

Years later, a boy named lio would find a stuffed tiger and a skull

Which ending of a comic is more sad. This or peanuts?

Sobs

I bet you anything that in the next invisible panel they fall into a river

Sigh. Calvin and sobs

A fitting end to the best comic strip of all time.

0. Goodbye, Calvin and Hobbes. You’ve been great. I’m sorry this needed to happen, but was meant to be. A moment of silence for the comic strip…………………..So long. -Garfield, Spitsy, and Snoopy

Ah, the last comic strip produced by Bill Watterson.. sad that he wont make any more

Guess he never came back from exploring:(

Go to January 1 2007. A surprise is waiting for you!

https://gocomics.com/calvinandhobbes/2007/01/01

if you can’t click that link type it

This the saddest strip ever. I almost always makes me cry.Goodbye Calvin And Goodbye Hobbes. I Will Miss You.

I hate goodbyes… Goodbye, Calvin and Hobbes. And thank you, Bill. I only regret I didn’t discover this sooner

Noooooooooooooooooooooooo!!! I will miss this strip so much :,(

Sniff I’m not crying, you’re crying… WAAAAAAAAAAAA

This is the best comic strip (and saddest) yet. :(

Amazing way to end the strip, he couldn’t have done it better.

LONG LIVE CALVIN!!!LONG LIVE HOBBES!!!

Where one story ends, another begins…

the best strip on the website…

I think this stip is a wonderful way to say goodbye to the Calvin and Hobbes daily srip.

Say, I have been wondering this for a while, but what do you think happens to Calvin and Hobbes? Personally, I think he becomes a comic strip writer, Susie and Calvin become good friend, and Calvi passes down Hobbes to his child, where he can have many more adventures.

This is a wonderful way to say good-bye to Calvin and Hobbes. Bill Watterson, thank you for all of Calvin’s imaginary superheroes and Hobbes energetic ways to say “hello” to Calvin when he came home from school. Thank you for Susie who was one of my favorite, and probably one of the smartest, characters in the strip. Thanks for Calvin’s mother and father who were probably a little more strict then she should have been. Actually, just thank you for Calvin and Hobbes! This is one of my favorite comic strips ever, and I thank you for writing this!

It’s bittersweet.

Enough chat… LET’S GO EXPLORING!! What a beautiful was to end Calvin and Hobbes!

best Sunday strip ever

I always thought of Calvin and Hobbes as just a comic about a bratty kid and his imagination, but I found out That Watterson left heartwarming and special things in his comic, and it makes us appreciate Calvin’s attitude and everything else in this great comic. This comic was a great way to end Calvin and Hobbes.

:(((

I loved this one. Until today, I didn’t know it was the last one, but I don’t think it could have ended any better. I quoted this one at my sister when I wanted her to go fishing/exploring with me when we were smaller.

She ignored me and just sat lol. Calvin will not sway a lazy couch potato.

It’s a magical world. sniff.

goodbye

It’s happy and kind of sad at the same time. That was a great way to end a brilliant Calvin and Hobbes era. We will miss you forever Calvin and Hobbes!

Personally to Bill Watterson, THANK YOU!

Teach me how to say goodbye…

This is a Beautiful strip ;_;

I too will explore with you, Calvin and Hobbes!

This strip left me in tears, as I read it from my computer that my mom took away from me during the summer!

Calvin and Hobbes were one of the best comics I read over the summer. Even though we all had our good times here, every good thing must come to an end. The way Watterson did it was magnificent.

I read this to a C&H fan who didn’t know the series ended and he got all teary-eyed

He had a good run. Bon voyage, Calvin.

You will always have that special place in my heart, Calvin.

SalamAlakum Calvin my Brother

Here, because of Calvinist1966

1 2 2023

WHAT HAPPENED AFTER:Calvin and Hobbes crashed at the end of the hill. Hobbes survived, but calvin did not. at the funeral, susie pulled out a bazooka and wasted everyone.

This may be the greatest comic of all time. We all love Calvin and Hobbes. What a great ending. So Long!

Well, I know it’s sad, but it’s a very heartwarming ending to a heartwarming comic

Sad Calvin and Hobbes is gone, but this IS THE BEST FINALE EVER!

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! When I first read this and realized that Calvin and Hobbes isn’t coming back, a part of me, and my childhood died.

as of today i finished reading every calvin and hobbes strip ! i did the same for garfeild.i will do it for others too

This ending is way better than the weird sci-fi ending of my other favorite comic,which also ended on New Year’s,27 years apart. For my favorite,I consider the final Sunday (Christmas that year) strip the ending.

greatest comics ever sniff

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

ABSOLUTLY HEARTBREAKIN

I start getting depressed whenever I see this strip.