Calvin and Hobbes

My favourite cartoon strip - Calvin & Hobbes

The first comic strip by Bill Watterson was picked by Universal Press Syndicate in 1985. Bill was earlier a political cartoonist and also designed ads for a weekly shopper. He developed comic strips working after hours and on weekends. Calvin and Hobbes ran in over 2400 newspapers. The last strip was written in 1995, after which they have only been republished.
Interestingly Calvin never turns old (he has always been 6!), his parents have no names. Bill named Calvin after the 16th century Protestant theologian and Hobbes was named after the 17th century philosopher who once observed "life is nasty, brutish and short"
The only 2 kids in this strip in addition to Calvin (ofcourse), are Susie (the woman brigade) and Moe (the bully)
In 1995 Watterson drew one final cartoon and let a boy and his tiger take off downhill on their snow sled and slide into comics history.