You need not travel back in time and snap up a copy of every original "Calvin and Hobbes" book in order to give a great comic/literary gift, though. For those of you keeping score, that means that I have at least four copies of many of the books. Being an over-the-top diehard fan, I still got the box set of the compete series, though. That gift, those mint condition original volumes of every Calvin book, was one of the most thoughtful I ever received. A few years back, my mother sent me a box containing brand-new copies of every single Calvin book it turned out that over the years she had bought them in pairs, allowing me and my brother to enjoy one copy with the reckless abandon - dogeared pages, spilled beverages, tree sap from the aforementioned pine tree literary sessions - while preserving another copy for our future enjoyment and/or for our children (which both of us now have, for the record). Many of my copies are the originals I flipped through as a child, often while 30 feet up in the pine tree in our front yard, reading by the multicolored glow of Christmas lights wound about its branches. I own at least one copy of every single Calvin and Hobbes book, and this includes "The Complete Calvin and Hobbes" as well as all the previous anthologies that compiled the individual books. Through the eyes of six-year-old Calvin and his old soul tiger friend Hobbes, we see anew the folly and foolishness of so many aspects of daily life and we see more clearly the importance of simple pleasures, from a friendship to a sunset to a transmogrifier box that can turn a person into a dinosaur, owl, or clone.
Though Bill Watterson wrapped up the series more than two decades ago, "Calvin and Hobbes" remains wildly popular and entirely pertinent today. The often off-beat humor, the incisive criticism, and the occasional surge of sentimentality in this seminal comic strip helped to color much of my young life, as it did for so many millions of readers of all ages. The comic strip first appeared in newspapers in 1985, three years after I was born, and ran for the next decade.
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes box set contains an impressive 1,440 pages of nostalgic wit, wisdom, and charm."The Complete Calvin and Hobbes" box set contains every single Calvin comic strip Bill Watterson ever published.
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