Merry Christmas from Calvin and Hobbes

I have always been a fan of newspaper comic strips and have picked up and thoroughly enjoyed collections of strips like the "Wizard of ID", "B.C.", "Hagar the Horrible", "Beetle Bailey" and many more over the years. However , the comic strip “Calvin and Hobbes” created by Bill Watterson is indisputably my all-time favourite comic strip. I have read the entire strip from start to finish through the various collections that were published (not being a reader of the newspaper the strip appeared in at the time in the UK) . After over 10 years of unrelenting fun Bill Watterson decided to end the series with the above wonderful Sunday colour page on 31 December 1995. It was the Christmas strips that showed "Calvin and Hobbes" at their funniest so sit back and try to remember a time when it was just fun being a kid.

Calvin and Hobbes follows the adventures of a precocious six-year-old boy named Calvin and his best friend, a stuffed tiger named Hobbes who comes alive when Calvin is alone. The strip is not just a series of gag cartoons but is a blend of satire that regularly pokes fun at the absurdities of modern life, from religion to politics and at the same time focuses on the simple joy of just being a kid, something I’m sure most readers of this blog can relate to.