Bill Watterson William Boyd Watterson II (born July 5, 1958) is a retired American cartoonist and the author of the comic strip ''Calvin and Hobbes'', which was syndicated from 1985 to 1995. Watterson stopped drawing ''Calvin and Hobbes'' at the end of 1995, ...

wrote a total of nineteen official ''

Calvin and Hobbes ''Calvin and Hobbes'' is a daily American comic strip created by cartoonist Bill Watterson that was syndicated from November 18, 1985, to December 31, 1995. Commonly cited as "the last great newspaper comic", ''Calvin and Hobbes'' has enjoyed ...

'' books that have been published in the United States by

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; the first, eponymously titled ''Calvin and Hobbes'', was released April 1987, and the most recent, ''Exploring Calvin and Hobbes: An Exhibition Catalogue'', was released February 2015. A twentieth official title, the textbook ''

Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes ''Teaching with'' Calvin and Hobbes is an American children's textbook published in 1993. As a rare piece of officially licensed '' Calvin and Hobbes'' merchandise, it is a highly valued collectible. Content Written by a speech-language patholog ...

'', was published under

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in 1993 by Playground Publishing in

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. Before the 2005 release of ''The Complete Calvin and Hobbes'', all the extant newspaper strips were collected across eight distinct titles: * ''The Essential Calvin and Hobbes'', 1988 * ''The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes'', 1990 * ''The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes'', 1992 * ''Attack of the Deranged Mutant Killer Monster Snow Goons'', 1992 * ''The Days Are Just Packed'', 1993 * ''Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat'', 1994 * ''There's Treasure Everywhere'', 1996 * ''It's a Magical World'', 1996

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