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Hello fellow Calvin and Hobbes fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Calvin and Hobbes is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic",[2][3][4] Calvin and Hobbes has enjoyed broad and enduring popularity, influence, and academic and philosophical interest… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvin_and_Hobbes
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Calvin and Hobbes!
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This is the first time I've seen Hobbes as a plushy.
Welcome to the Calvin & Hobbes universe! Hobbes is shown as a stuffed animal anytime a human other than Calvin is in the picture.
Correction: Any time a human other than Calvin has Hobbes in their field of view. In the comic where Hobbes attends a tea party with Susie (1986-05-31), there is one panel both she and Hobbes are looking at Calvin, and Hobbes is not depicted as a stuffed tiger.
Thanks for the correction! That's a nice bit of additional trivia which I wasn't aware of even though I've seen the tea party cartoon a thousand times. :)
Here it is, for reference: https://assets.amuniversal.com/9ed15af0deb801317193005056a9545d
This is why Calvin begins by taking Moe’s eyes.
I think Hobbes is only shown as true Tiger if the reader sees the world as Calvin sees it.