1. Calvin & Hobbes The last great Newspaper Comic Strip

8. Watterson’s cultural commentary Calvin’s snow sculptures were Watterson’s way of lampooning the Art world.

9. More Commentary This strip is a fair example of Calvin’s academic misadventures, though by no means the most outrageous (he once dressed up as his superhero alter-ego ‘Stupendous Man’ in order to take ‘Calvin’s’ test with the aid of his ‘Stupendous knowledge’). Strips such as this made Calvin & Hobbes popular with teachers at all levels of education – I remember attending a university lecture as a child, in a class my mother was taking, and seeing the lecturer use a Calvin & Hobbes strip to illustrate a point.