Calvin and Hobbes' Final Strip is Still the Perfect Goodbye

On November 18, 1985, the very first comic strip of Calvin and Hobbes appeared in newspapers. “So long, pop! I’m off to check my tiger trap!” Calvin, wearing a safari helmet, said to his dad in the first panel. Calvin went on to explain that he rigged the trap with a tuna fish sandwich, something a tiger cannot resist. In the last panel, Hobbes is seen for the first time, hanging upside down in a tree, eating the sandwich.