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If you've been wondering what to do with that massive inheritance some distant relative left you in their will, or pondering whether we were finally in the kind of financial reality that could support rash overspending that could leave you in incredible amounts of debt, here's something that may help you in your decision making: The original art from a 1986 Calvin and Hobbes Sunday page is going

With roughly ten years worth of reading material at their disposal, Calvin and Hobbes fans have long been content with the fact that Bill Watterson's beloved series stands on its own without licensed merchandise or an animated series. After all, Watterson's vision for his material has remained pure, and that purity can translate into an undiluted reading experience...

Someone recently told me that the Internet is a sinkhole of nostalgia, that we glorify the culture of the past because it's readily available to us all the time. It's hard not to be nostalgic about Calvin and Hobbes, though. After all, Bill Watterson's comic is all about nostalgia, and it transports everyone who reads it to a magical childhood, and lets us believe, if only for a minute, that we a

Why stop when you're on a roll? Cartoonist Kerry Callen is back with more cleverly animated versions of comic book covers for your enjoyment. The artist of a hilarious series of Golden Age superhero trolling strips and a contributor to ComicsAlliance's Great Comics That Never Happened, Callen's latest batch of animated covers include a gun-toting Dark Knight, a restful Calvin and Hobbes and, most

Upcoming: The Power Pack will return to, how you say, the core Marvel universe in FF #15. Gaming: DC Universe Online's ninth update, "Assemble for Battle," is now live. Movies: Jane Goldman of X-Men: First Class and Kick-Ass fame will pen the script adapting Nate Simpson's Nonplayer series for the big screen...

When I first heard that there was a webcomic called It's a Good Life drawn in the style of Bill Watterson's Calvin and Hobbes, I immediately assumed that it was a retelling of the Twilight Zone episode with Calvin in the role of Anthony Fremont...

Aside from a love of fancy notebooks, I don't really have much of an attachment to the artifacts of the pre-Internet era of instant communication. That said, the letterheads of the past are a thousand times better than today's neon pink, Comic Sans email signatures...

Despite the fact that it's been 15 years since the last new Calvin and Hobbes strip, the work of cartoonist Bill Watterson seems to constantly at the forefront of the comics blogosphere these days. ComicsAlliance has published numerous Watterson-related stories in the last several months, and we add to them now with this post on some of the Calvin and Hobbes creator's early editorial cartoons... R

In our new, (possibly) recurring feature CATV, Let's Be Friends Again creators Curt Franklin and Chris Haley examine the world of comics through the eyes of prime-time television, and imagines what further horrors or delights might come from this unholy marriage...

We haven't heard much from ultra-beloved Calvin and Hobbes creator Bill Watterson since his retirement from the funny pages in 1995, when Watterson disappeared from public view except for the rarest of interviews. In 2008, however, he appeared again to write the forward to a collection of the newspaper strip Cul de Sac, where he lauded creator Richard Thompson as "the equal of any of cartooni