Let’s Go Exploring: Calvin and Hobbes

A Fascinating Investigation Of A Beloved Comic Strip The Internet Is Home To Impassioned Debates On Just About Everything, But There’s One Thing That’s Universally Beloved: Bill Watterson’s Comic Strip Calvin And Hobbes. Until Its Retirement In 1995 After A Ten-year Run, The Strip Won Numerous Awards And Drew Tens Of Millions Of Readers From All Around The World. The Story Of A Boy And His Best Friend — A Stuffed Tiger — Was A Pitch-perfect Distillation Of The Joys And Horrors Of Childhood, And A Celebration Of Imagination In Its Purest Form. In Let’s Go Exploring, Michael Hingston Mines The Strip And Traces The Story Of Calvin’s Reclusive Creator To Demonstrate How Imagination — Its Possibilities, Its Opportunities, And Ultimately Its Limitations — Helped Make Calvin And Hobbes North America’s Last Great Comic Strip.