

The author of Calvin and Hobbes is Bill Watterson.Calvin and Hobbes was first published on November 18,1985. Calvin and Hobbes was put on 2,400 newspapers and 30 million copies of the eighteen made Calvin and Hobbes books have been sold. Watterson earned the Reuben Award from the National Cartoonists Society in 1986 and 1988.The 3,160th and final strip waspublished on December 31, 1995. The characters were named after two guys named John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes.