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Amazingly, I forgot to mention the best part of Friday’s sojourn through the Con: We stopped at the Andrews McNeel<\/a> booth and discovered that they had brought along a copy of The Complete Calvin & Hobbes<\/a>! The three-volume set was flat-out gorgeous! The reproductions of the strips looked great, the cream finish on the pages is a million times better-looking than the complete Far Side<\/a> run they published a year or two ago! When we brought Tom<\/a> to the booth to show him, he saw the set at a distance and said, “Oh, dear God…”<\/p>\n

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Amazingly, I forgot to mention the best part of Friday’s sojourn through the Con: We stopped at the Andrews McNeel booth and discovered that they had brought along a copy of The Complete Calvin & Hobbes! The three-volume set was flat-out gorgeous! The reproductions of the strips looked great, the cream finish on the pages … <\/p>\n

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