On this date, Nov. 18, 1985, a wild kid and his pet tiger entered our lives.

[JHB]

[liberal N proud]

1. We had our own version of Calvin

Our youngest daughter was born the following year and I think Calvin was secretly telling how to live.

She had a tiger as well, a stuffed Tigger from Disney

[republianmushroom]

2. I loved every strip. Later I related to many a script

[k8conant]

3. My favorite of all time:

[IcyPeas]

4. no other comic comes close to Calvin and Hobbes. this one says it all....

[crickets]

5. I remember when Spaceman Spiff was introduced.

Such a trip. I love Calvin and Hobbes.

[planetc]

6. Splendid.

[2naSalit]

7. Back then...

I subscribed to the paper just for that comic strip!

[A HERETIC I AM]

8. The variety of his snowman creations always killed me!

[littlewolf]

20. there was one when he was being eaten by a snow snake and suzy walks by ,,,,

[Hermit-The-Prog]

9. Calvin and Hobbes are sacred runes of wisdom.

[area51]

10. My favorite comic strip.

[Hekate]

11. Awwww. A most wonderful world, with C&H in the funnies every day. I miss them

[LetMyPeopleVote]

12. K&R

[UTUSN]

13. K&R

[littlewolf]

14. love C & H

miss them so much ... also miss Opus ...
2 of the best ... but C & H was always good
Opus was political and didn't always like it.

[JHB]

17. Berkely Breathed still keeps Bloom County alive on Facebook

https://www.facebook.com/berkeleybreathed

It's a lot more sporadic because he only does it when he has an idea he likes, rather than grinding things out for syndication.

And to circle it back to C&H, you may want to check out The Compleat Bloom'n Hobbes from last year.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/10181539495


(This is not part of that, this is the latest new one from Facebook):

[The Blue Flower]

15. My grandson discovered C&H last year

I have several books of collections of the strip. He got hooked and read all of them. He's 9 now.

[nolabear]

16. When I did therapy with kids I likened it to Calvinball.

At its best it was a wild trip through their fantasies and if you grabbed hold and played along you could get to some amazing places.

I adore C&H.

[EarnestPutz]

18. What a nice idea. Kids are great, their fantasies are great and Calvin is great. You're....

.....pretty great yourself, in my book. Thanks for the nice post.

[nolabear]

21. Awww...shucks. Thank you.

[EarnestPutz]

19. JHB - Thanks for posting this. Calvin and Hobbes are one of a kind, for sure. I first.....

.....saw the strip on a business trip to San Francisco back then. Had read several days of the strip and was thinking "what an odd concept, a little boy who lives with a tiger". It was later in the week that the stuffed tiger toy first appeared and, after a moment of confusion, I realized that Hobbes was a product of Calvin's imagination and was unseen by the parents. It did and still does strike me as a wonderful concept.