Calvin and Hobbes (alkuperäinen julkaisuvuosi 1987; vuoden 1987 painos)

loved this book as a kid ( )

This is very probably the best comic strip in history, in any language. ( )

Started re-reading my Calvin and Hobbes collection on a whim. I love those two just as much now as I did back when they were being published every day! It's impossible to read without smiling and occasionally LOLing. ( )

Jus' li'l kid stuff, chock full of only slightly forced wonder and Watterson's apposite eye. The sentimental love people have for this (and, incidentally, the Muppets) always seems sanctimonious, like they're just waiting for the chance to call you a joyless bastard if you demur. But that's not Watterson's fault, and if I can take or leave the many comics where the joke is "Calvin doesn't like vegetables" or "Calvin's teacher is an alien," sometimes too it just cuts you to the quick with pathos or delight or wry regular-people solidarity of a sort that's a mere flickering candle today compared to how it was back then, before they gutted the middle class. It's a hard act to pull off, and Watterson's charming vignettes do a really good job. ( )

Calvin y Hobbes es una tira cómica escrita y dibujada por Bill Watterson que relata, en clave de humor, las peripecias de Calvin, un imaginativo niño de 6 años, y Hobbes, su enérgico y sarcástico, aunque algo pomposo, tigre de peluche, al cual calvin cree real. La pareja recibe sus nombres de Juan Calvino, teólogo reformista francés del siglo XVI, y de Thomas Hobbes, filósofo inglés del siglo XVII. La tira cómica se publicó diariamente desde el 18 de noviembre de 1985 hasta el 31 de diciembre de 1995, apareciendo en más de 2.400 periódicos y con más de 30 millones de ejemplares vendidos de sus 18 libros recopilatorios, lo cual la convierte en un referente de la cultura popular incluso en la actualidad.