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The Essential Calvin and
Hobbes is a collection of
Calvin and Hobbes comic strips. This book includes cartoons from
Calvin
and Hobbes and Something Under the Bed is Drooling. A color,
twelve-page story appears in the beginning of the book. This little
story is told in rhyme. The Sunday cartoons appear in color while the
daily cartoons appear in black and white.
This collection contains the
following storylines: principal's office, camping, swimming lessons,
Calvin the onion, Susie's birthday party, school pictures, baby
raccoon, the Transmogrifier, and the haircut. Most of the stories are
just individual daily shots. This collection contains the first Calvin
and Hobbes stories.
Calvin and Hobbes became
very popular in the mid-1980's, and continued into the 1990's, until Bill Watterson decided that he was going to retire the comic strip. It was
seen daily in hundred of newspapers and enjoyed by millions. Calvin is a
quirky 6 years old boy who has a pet stuffed animal tiger names Hobbes.
But to Calvin, Hobbes is alive. Together, they constantly get into
mischief. Hobbes often acts as Calvin's conscious, but being a tiger,
he also acts upon his whims. Calvin's parents can also be quite funny.
Calvin always seems to be testing his mother. And Calvin's father's
explanations of how things work are always hilarious. And then there is
Calvin's arch nemesis, Susie. Usually innocent of all wrongdoing,
Calvin loves to harass her. But she always beats Calvin in the end.
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