On Nov. 18, 1985, a new comic strip made its newspaper debut: Calvin and Hobbes. It featured a small boy wearing a pith helmet who announced that day that he was going to check his tiger trap. The ...

Often commended as “the last great newspaper comic,” Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes garnered immense success and an enduring legacy over its impressive ten-year run (1985-95). By turns ...

Watterson’s “Calvin and Hobbes” focused on the friendship between six-year-old Calvin and his stuffed tiger friend Hobbes.

D’Auito had put Hobbes’ airport wanderings into a hardbound photo book that was waiting for Owen, along with the errant tiger. “It was very, very sweet,” Lake said in an airport news release.

There’s no Calvinball without Hobbes. Hobbes, the stuffed tiger, was given an imaginative life, but a life no less real than Calvin’s, were you to ask Bill Watterson.

Hobbes got to nap in a hammock, eat gelato and visit the control center. — -- A stuffed animal tiger named Hobbes recently went on a “great adventure” at Tampa International Airport in ...

Calvin and Hobbes, the influential and popular comic strip by Bill Watterson about a boy and his stuffed tiger that ran in thousands of newspapers worldwide during its run from 1985-1995.

That changed when the family landed back in Tampa on June 11. D'Auito had put Hobbes' airport wanderings into a hardbound photo book that was waiting for Owen, along with the errant tiger.