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Introduction to Calvin and Hobbes: Sunday Pages 1985-1995 (2001)

- Sunday Pages 1985 - 1995" It's been five years since the end of Calvin and Hobbes, the longest time I can remember in which I haven't drawn cartoons. Calvin and Hobbes was a wonderful experience, but it was an all-consuming career.

Likewise, any complex storytelling problem-a strip illustrating a long expanse of time, for example, or an event depicted in a succession of very tiny moments-is futile in the daily format. No doubt this stuff will eat through the paper or turn green in a few years, but as the original cartoons were intended for reproduction, not picture frames and gallery walls, I did not overly concern myself with archival issues or, for that matter, neatness. For all the yelling and screaming by outraged editors, I remain convinced that the larger Sunday strip gave newspapers a better product and made the comics section more fun for readers.

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