![]() He makes some $1 million annually off "Calvin & Hobbes," but has turned down millions more by refusing to license the strip's characters. Watterson has long been regarded as something of a maverick. Besides reprints, the newest offers new strips and musings by Mr. 18, 1985, the strip has consistently topped popularity surveys - it's among The Sun's top five - and has been collected in 14 anthologies, including the most recent, "The Calvin & Hobbes' Tenth Anniversary Book."Įach of the first 13 books, all just collections of previously published material, sold more than a million copies. Like "Bloom County" and the "Far Side," "Calvin & Hobbes" will depart the comics page with their best days seemingly ahead of them. ![]() "He does kind of keep doing the same jokes over and over, but they're good ones." "It is one of my favorite comic strips," she said. ![]() I'm going to have to be very gentle about this."Īnne Wityk, who lives in Timonium with her husband and three young children, will also miss "Calvin & Hobbes." "I'm going to have to get off the phone and break this to them very gently," he said, somewhat haltingly, "sort of like telling them the cat went up on the roof. ![]()
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