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This is the Wikipedia portal for comics. Comics have a long tradition, the aspects of the form becoming formalised alongside the invention of the printing press, and the status of comics as an art form has recently gained fresh focus. The iconic representations of comics require no translation, giving the comic strip and cartoon a universal power of communication. Comics are also artifacts created by specific cultures, which reflect those cultures, and in turn, affect them.
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[1] Calvin and Hobbes is a daily comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger. The strip was syndicated from November 18, 1985 to December 31, 1995. At its height, Calvin and Hobbes was carried by over 2,400 newspapers worldwide. To date, more than 30 million copies of the 18 Calvin and Hobbes books have been printed, and popular culture is still replete with references to the strip.

The strip is vaguely set in the contemporary Midwestern United States, on the outskirts of suburbia, a location probably inspired by Watterson's home town of Chagrin Falls, Ohio. Calvin and Hobbes appear in most of the strips, though several focused instead upon Calvin's family. The broad themes of the strip deal with Calvin's flights of fantasy, his friendship with Hobbes, his misadventures, his views on a diverse range of political and cultural issues and his relationships and interactions with his parents, classmates, educators, and other members of society. The dual nature of Hobbes is also a recurring motif. Calvin sees Hobbes a different way (alive), while other characters see him as something else (a stuffed animal).

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An image from the Little Nemo comic strip. Art by Little Nemo creator Winsor McCay. The artist is one of the 15 cartoonists whose work was being exhibited in the Masters of American Comics exhibition.
An image from the Little Nemo comic strip. Art by Little Nemo creator Winsor McCay. The artist is one of the 15 cartoonists whose work was being exhibited in the Masters of American Comics exhibition.


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... that Sergio Aragonés is the only cartoonist to have won National Cartoonists Society awards in six different categories?

... that Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters The Smurfs first appeared in the Belgian comic Johan and Peewit in 1958?

... that Stephen Duffy, the first vocalist of Duran Duran, played in the band Tin Tin, named after The Adventures of Tintin?

... that Patrick McDonnell, author of Mutts, is a member of the Board of Directors of The Humane Society of the United States?

... that Astro Boy, the fictional hero of the first real anime, obtained special citizenship from the Japanese city Niiza on April 7, 2003, his birthday in the comic?

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