These Calvin and Hobbescomics hit differently as you get older. The strip, about a boy and his best friend, a tiger that might or might not be imaginary, wasn't made for children. In fact, it used its ...

40 years ago — on November 18, 1985 — a new comic strip appeared in the newspaper: Calvin and Hobbes. Hobbes was a stuffed tiger, but in the mind of 6-year-old Calvin he was a wryly observant ...