The two yearly collections have additional drawings not reprinted in the treasury, and the treasury has new features of its own. However if you are a completist who wants everything Bill Watterson has made, then you will probably have to buy this volume as well as the first two yearly collections, because each contains something not present in the other books. The treasury books present the strips at a much smaller size than in the yearly collections, but each treasury book contains more strips, so the choice is yours as to which way you prefer to read them. Then there were also the ‘treasury series’ of tall, album-sized books which combined the strips from two years of Calvin and Hobbes in a single volume. These were square books for the first seven years and then landscape after that. First, there were individual yearly collections, each covering one year of strips. Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes was an extremely popular newspaper strip during its ten-year run, and the collections were published in two different forms.
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