That is post #7.
That’s in answer to post #39 above it.
So good, we posted it twice.
Speaking of C&H, I really like this fan art.
And also thisresponse to the fake last strip.
Awww…but where’s Mr. Bun?
She outgrew him. He was never “real”, anyway, just a stuffed toy like a normal girl that age would play with.
I thought Calvin imagined Hobbes into reality.
He occasionally did or knew things that couldn’t be credited to Calvin.
I think I can share some experiences here that might elucidate this issue. Feel free to skip over if you find this sort of thing narcissistic and/or navel-gazing.
I was pretty similar to Calvin as a kid, except without the ultra-violent streak. I liked playing by myself, being surrounded by the world of my imagination, which is a thing you can’t communicate to others fully. And as such, I mostly did. I had one best friend (who was a human being) and we shared some imaginary worlds together, though, as well.
I mostly translated my aloneness to arrogance. As I saw it, other people just didn’t comprehend the world on the same level that I did. In reality, I was a very smart kid, yes, but I was also just painfully socially awkward and didn’t correctly understand other people’s reactions to my behavior. So I would say that I started out strange enough, but my lack of proper socialization did indeed add to that.
Incidentally, I also carried a stuffed animal around everywhere I went. To me, my stuffed cat was very much alive*, as were my other [del]imaginary[/del] “invisible” friends. Bill Watterson explains the Hobbes issue as different people perceiving the world differently, and I think this is perfectly sufficient for me. Needless to say, I pored over C&H collections as a child, and I still consider it by leaps and bounds my favorite comic strip.
*He even had a birthday, on which I somehow managed to convince my mom to bake chocolate cake, because that was his favorite. I hated it, myself.
Of course, Calvin’s a few years away from the age when all boys have imaginary playmates–many of them Playboy Playmates, and some of them real tigers…
(Hey…you can take the kid out of The Far Side, but you can never take The Far Side out of the man. 
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These ones are a bit more upbeat…though this one is probably the most realistic.
Pills and maturity nothin’…it’s hormones that rule the day.
Neither of the two poll options. The author intended him to be a normal boy with friends, the strip just edits around them.