Calvin and Hobbes have returned to the comics pages of the Los Angeles Times--Welcome back guys, we've missed you! During the all-too-brief time it ran--from Nov. 18, 1985 to Dec. 31, 1995--"Calvin and Hobbes" was simultaneously the most old-fashioned and the most innovative comic strip in newspapers. Its creator, Bill Waterson, returned to the principles of polished draftmanship, visual imagination and character-driven humor that have been the source of comic strips' popularity since their inception in the 1890s. But he applied those venerable principles in new ways to make his strip personal, contemporary and very, very funny. The Times is reprinting "Calvin and Hobbes" through the end of the year.
What's to understand? We're just happy to see Calvin and Hobbes back in the funny papers again . . . they've been absent from the Los Angeles Times comics section.
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