The BEST comic strip of all time.

There is a (supposedly) well-known nit in the Scientific Progress Goes Boink volume, in the storyline which gives it the title. In one panel near the end, when all the duplicates are running away there are six of them as well as the real Calvin, when before and after that there have always been only five. Also, one of them is not wearing a striped shirt, but a plain one. I read about this at the Calvin and Hobbes Jumpstation, but it's apparently quite well known.

I dunno about well-known, but I picked it out almost immediately I read the series. (IIRC, Calvin refers to each clone by it's number, which gets the reader used to counting them and so makes the mistake more obvious.)

What a wonderful, wonderful strip - work of art, really, which is how Bill Watterson approached it. It just put sentimental glop like 'The Family Circus' completely to shame.

I especially loved the goofy, imaginative interaction between Calvin and his dad. It was about five levels up from the typical doofus-dad/precocious kid cliches (when Calvin asks where babies come from, Dad informs him that he was a blue-light special at K-mart...) and yet always rang true.
Also funny was Rosalyn the babysitter-of-steel, the only person ever to truly intimidate Calvin; Calvinball, where the only rule is there are no rules; and Club GROSS, or Get Rid Of Slimy girlS, both of whose members were so busy nominating themselves for offices like 'Chief Imperial Tiger for Life' that they very seldom ever got around to fulfilling their charter. (In one memorable series of strips, it took them most of a day to decipher their own top-secret code.)

And of course there's Hobbes' own unique - and of course highly tiger-centric - worldview, best summed up in a strip in which Calvin asks him what happens when we die: "I think we play saxophone for an all-girl cabaret in New Orleans."

With all the stuff kids get into today, I'm surprised Watterson hasn't tried to revive the strip. Indeed the best strip of all time.

When I say well-known, I mean most people spot it.

Calvinball, where the only rule is there are no rules

No, the rule is you can't play the same way twice.:P

Yeah, I was a *big* fan..I just wish it was still around.

CC, see the Rules of Fizzbin board (if it's still around).

So who loves the Calvin snowman strips best of all?

http://www.angelfire.com/wa/zzaran/calvin.html

The snowman strips were GREAT! I have all the Calvin and Hobbes books. It really is a shame Watterson doesn't write new stuff any more, just re-publishes the strips over and over.

In the last decade, the Complete C & H was released in a hardcover three-book set. I decided not to get it because I prefer reading comic strips in paperback form. Plus, it was a bit pricey.

And now there is finally the complete comic strip series in paperback form, I saw it at my local media store (music/movies/games/books/comics) and it's about $60-$65. Not too bad, I will probably acquire it at some point.

I look forward to reading the adventures of the boy and his tiger again, it was my favorite comic strip of my youth!