Along with Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons and Matt Groening's Life in Hell series, which of course pre-dates The Simpsons, there is a special place reserved in my heart for Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes comic strips, syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995, and the books that compiled them.
We're pretty big Calvin and Hobbes fans here, so if we had the money we think we might have paid more than $107,550 for an original Bill Watterson watercolor of the philosophical six-year-old and stuffed tiger duo.
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