Calvin & Hobbes was the comic strip of the late ’80s and early ’90s. It was brilliantly drawn, just as brilliantly written, and installed awe in everyone who saw it, whether they were readers or artists or publishers.
Bill Watterson, its creator, retired the strip at the end of 1994, saying that he had reached the point where he would never be able to outdo what he’d already done and with that challenge behind him he was going to relax.