I haven't seen it mentioned yet, so in case you're a big Calvin and Hobbes fan and haven't heard about Watterson's brief return to the comics page as a guest artist for Stephan Pastis' Pearls Before Swine, Stephan describes the whole thing in a really fun story here: https://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2014/06/07/ever-wished-t...
It includes links to the strips.
C&H remains one of very few influential and yet uncorrupted parts of my youth. I'm grateful to Mr. Watterson for never selling out. But it's bittersweet, because kids don't read newspaper funnies with their breakfast cereal anymore, and I fear that Calvin and Hobbes will disappear from the public consciousness long before Garfield does.
> because kids don't read newspaper funnies with their breakfast cereal anymore
Neither kids nor adults read the newspaper with their breakfast much anymore...
That said, my kid came across my old C&H books and loves to read them. She also reads Fox Trot, Garfield, and Peanuts, but not nearly as much as C&H.
Thanks!
That's one of the returns I was thinking of earlier (see my top level comment in thread), though I couldn't think of the strip. It was of course PBS.