How long does it take to read The Complete Calvin and Hobbes?
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson takes about 26 hours 42 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 26 hours 42 minutes
A long haul
First published 2005. 1,456 pages, about 400,400 words.
54 days (about 8 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 44 hours 29 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 26 hours 42 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 16 hours 41 minutes |
The page count is the median across 3 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a three volume slipcased book collection of the Calvin and Hobbes comic strips that where published from 1985-1995, it covers all the strips published and also reproduces many of the covers of earlier books in full page color illustrations. There are three daily black and white strips per page, and one color Sunday comic on a single page. Besides the comic strips there is also other full page color illustrations, and the poems and stories from other collections included. There is a new 'Introduction' by Bill Watterson. It originally sold for $150.00 in U.S.A., $200.00 in Canada, $265.00 in Australia, $295.00 in New Zealand, and £85.00 in U.K.
Subjects: Caricatures and cartoons, Tiger, Pictorial American wit and humor, Comic strip, Humor, form, comic strips & cartoons, Comic books, strips
