the complete calvin and hobbes by bill watterson

I don't know how many children were, like me, disappointed when their stuffed animals didn't talk back.

The strip was like Calvin's fantasies: better and more vivid than real life. To make room for the strip we will no longer carry 'Mary Worth,' which finished last in a recent reader survey.' Tee hee hee! And is there anyone, besides, apparently, the article's author, surprised by either of those results?) (Another nice note was struck by the final, somewhat defensive-sounding paragraph, which stated that 'We are thrilled to have 'Calvin and Hobbes' back, but unfortunately we have a limited amount of space for comics. (Similar articles appeared in newspapers nationwide.) Lest the reader get too excited, after noting that 'When we surveyed readers in 2002 the strip was among the Top 10 most requested-even though it hadn't appeared in any newspaper for years,' the article said that it was 'returning to our pages for a limited time' in the form of 'selected classic strips will appear daily and on Sundays for 17 weeks.' They weren't new, there wouldn't be many, but to this fan at least, it was as if choirs of angels were singing.

In August of 2005, the Oakland Tribune ran a short article in its Bay Area Living section that was all too easy to miss, and which announced the return of Calvin and Hobbes to its comics page.

The complete calvin and hobbes by bill watterson