The first Calvin & Hobbes strip
First published on November the 18th 1985 in the Daily. We discover Calvin and Hobbes, and Hobbes' love for tuna fish.
Calvin
The most funny thing of the comics is Calvin's character. He is cynical, weird, greed...
Megalomania
(from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)
Selfishness
(from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)
Cupidity
(from Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons)
Sexism
(from The Days are just packed)
Morbidity
(from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)
(from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)
Weirdness
(from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)
So...
(from The Essential Calvin and Hobbes)
"I'm home !"
When Calvin arrives from school... Hobbes is always waiting for him...
Calvin and school... Calvin hates school, as much as disciplin. It's boring... His teacher, Miss Wormwood is waiting for retirement because of Calvin !
Show and Tell
Calvin uses the show and tell at school to show aliens, to make vulgar words contests... and sometimes a few philosophy...
Homeworks
Calvin hates scholl... and homeworks. The most difficult thing is to find how not to do them. Sometimes Hobbes helps him... But most of the time he doesn't do them
Lunch
Calvin grings his lunch at school... but it's always weird or disgusting :
Moe
Moe is a six-year-old boy, but his big, tall, strong, stupid... He likes to beat hthe little, during gym class for example, to steal their money. Calvin is used to laughing at Moe... but he pays often for that...
Baths
Calvin, like many kids, hates baths... and tries not to take one... but if he does, his mother has to pay for this...
Meals at home
Calvin, like many kids, doesm't like his mother's cooking...
Les explications de son père
When Calvin asks his father a question, he always give a crazy answer...
"Run for Dad" polls
Calvin considers that "Dad" is an elected post. Therefore Calvin often makes polls among the six-year-old in the house and presents the polls to his father, gives him advises...
The monsters under the bed
Calvin like almost all the other children, fears for monsters under his bed... There's even a C&H called Something under the bed is drooling (included in The Essential Calvin and Hobbes).
Les lettres à Santa
Just before Christmas, Calvin has to write a letter to Santa Claus to ask him a lot of loot... but the problem is that he didn't act very good during the year. Nevertheless he tries to pledge in his favour...
Inventions
Calvin, as the genius kid he pretends to be, often invent very sophisticated machines like the transmogrifier , thee cerebral enhance-o-tron, le duplicator, the ethicator...
The most important of these is probably the transmogriefer (which exists also in handable version). Thus here is the first strip in which it appears :
The last Calvin and Hobbes strip
It has been published in the Washington Post on December the 31st 1995. It's sad to say it, but Watterson retired... But the last strip is full of optimism and let a possibility to restart the cartoon...
