The comic takes place while Calvin and Hobbes ride a wagon down a steep hill. We're so busy watching out for what's just ahead of us that we don't take the time to enjoy where we are.

As Calvin and Hobbes are riding in their red wagon together, speeding down a hill through the woods, Calvin starts talking to Hobbes about how people tend to not live in the moment, and as a ...

Hobbes, flesh and fur only in the eyes of Calvin, occupies a state of serenity his owner is just too human to achieve. This, always, is the subject of discussion as the wagon clatters toward disaster.

“It’s a funny world, Hobbes,” Calvin says, plummeting again down a hill in a wagon with his friend. “But it’s not a hilarious world,” he says, as they fall out of their wagon.

‘Calvin and Hobbes’ said ... Calvinball, G.R.O.S.S., the wagon rides, Calvin’s battles with his ... “He stands for that rebellious spirit in the fact of a world that kind of holds you down.

The strip begins with Calvin and Hobbes lugging a red wagon to the top of a hill. Together, they devise a plan to ride the wagon down the hill and travel through time.

Nevin Martell, author of the 2010 book “Looking for Calvin and Hobbes,” was unsuccessful in his attempts to track down Watterson. But if Watterson called him tomorrow and agreed to talk ...

Not many can claim to have been born six years old. Calvin, of “Calvin and Hobbes,” proves the exception to that rule. Bill Watterson drew the first of the now-iconic comics in November of ...

But Calvin and Hobbes also took readers deep into Calvin’s adventures as the sci-fi hero Spaceman Spiff, or into soap opera–style strips when he would play more down-to-earth games of pretend ...

In it, the two pals zip down what looks like a mountainside. Calvin laments to Hobbes the coming end of summer, and how quickly it went by: “There’s never enough time to do all the nothing you ...

The final “Calvin and Hobbes” strip, by Bill Watterson, published 25 years ago this week — departing in peak form. (Bill Watterson/Andrews McMeel Syndication) ...