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The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium Set 3: Volume 3 – Bill Watterson

Paperback – Andrews McMeel Publishing – September 2024 – 288 pages

The third set of books collecting Bill Watterson’s timeless Calvin and Hobbes comics in a new portable format designed to introduce the timeless adventures of a boy and his stuffed tiger to a new generation of readers. Featuring nearly 500 comics presented chronologically from June 1988 to November 1989.

This compact, portable collection of Calvin and Hobbes comics will fit easily into backpacks, bookshelves–and make for a perfect stocking stuffer. Featuring archival slipcase and cover art selected by the author, The Calvin and Hobbes Portable Compendium pays tribute to the strip’s origin in newspapers while appealing to both new and existing fans of Calvin and Hobbes. This is the third set in a series of seven.

Calvin and Hobbes is one of the most popular comic strips of all time. The imaginative world of a boy and his real-only-to-him tiger first appeared in 1985 and could be read in more than 2,400 newspapers when Bill Watterson retired on January 1, 1996.