However, Calvin's parents are the unsung heroes of Calvin & Hobbes. It's hard to keep things in order with a child as imaginative as Calvin.

Calvin is constantly inventing new things, which he happily shares with Hobbes.He reveals the Duplicator, the Cerebral Enhance-o-Tron, and the Transmogrifier with nothing but pride in his talents.

GENEVA - John Calvin, the Great Reformer, used dictatorial means in making Geneva a "Protestant Rome," but he also planted the seeds of modern democracy.