Calvin (Hardcover)

Calvin is 17-years old and has been linked to Calvin and Hobbes from birth: he was born on the day the last strip was published, his grandpa left a stuffed tiger named Hobbes in his crib, and he even has a best friend named Susie. He looks and behaves like comic-strip-Calvin and played with his Hobbes until he fell apart in the washing machine. But now Calvin is falling apart. Susie has been pulling away by getting friendly with his bully and he's been falling behind in school - he hasn't done a project that is worth 50% of his grade. As he realizes this could mean he won't graduate Hobbes appears. Well, he doesn't appear - Calvin can't really see him - but he starts talking to him. When he goes to class the next day without his project and realizes his teacher is an alien he tries to warn his classmates, but blacks out as he tries to run away. He wakes up in a psychiatric ward and a doctor tells him he's Schizophrenic. Hobbes tells him he's not. Calvin says it's Bill Watterson's...Read more

Let’s be honest: most teenagers procrastinate. Most teens don’t, however, confront an eight-foot stuffed tiger prowling around their bedroom at one in the morning.On the novel’s very first page, however, Calvin blunders through both.Then again, 17-year-old Calvin doesn’t exactly conform to standard high schooler behavior --- he knows what your R cortex does, considers dead spiders a token of affection and thinks he’s the star of Calvin and Hobbes come to life.But when his English teacher morphs into a bug-eyed alien, for once Calvin reacts just as expected. He runs for his life.A dozen psychological tests and one schizophrenia diagnosis later, Calvin and his ex-best friend Susie embark on a three-day slog across Lake Erie. In Canada. In January. But can braving 72 hours on this frozen “garbage popsicle” coax the Calvin and Hobbes creator into drawing one final comic? And can a cartoon of a...Read more