"It's a magical world!!"

I have just finished reading my nth Calvin & Hobbes strip. What makes Calvin & Hobbes(C&H) so brilliant is it's not just a comic strip that makes you smile..it lingers on your mind for hours even if you have read it in the morning alongside your su-doku over the coffee.

The strip drawn by Bill Watterson has been immensely successful ever since it started in 1985.Watterson often used the strip as a medium to comment on the growing decadence of the society.Calivn is said to be modelled on the thelogian john Calvin while Hobbes on Thomas Hobbes, a famous philosopher of the, then times. Read more about them here.Watterson stopped drawing C&H after 31st December, 1995.He even requested the Universal Press Syndicate to not to forward him any fan mail.It is said Bill was bothered by all the public attention he had gathered as a result of the success of C&H.

C&H went onto become so popular that by the time Watterson drew the last strip it was printed simultaneously in 240 newspapers across the world.Even Charles Schulz, has said "It is fun to look at and, that is what has made Bill's work such an admirable success."

So, "Let's go exploring!"