"Calvin and Hobbes" @ Auction

Remember the charming antics of "Calvin and Hobbes"?

Bill Watterson may have retired these popular comic characters in the mid-90's, but his original artwork is still going strong.

As recently reported by Michael Cavna for The Washington Post, an original Watterson "Calvin and Hobbes" watercolor has sold at auction for $107,550.

This may not be as much as Ron Lauder paid in 2006 for Gustav Klimt's "Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer" ($135 million - the most expensive painting ever sold at the time), but it is nothing to scoff at either.

'Calvin and Hobbes'-style snowmen. (See the strip that appeared on January 21, 1991.) (c) Photo: Vegas Bleeds Neon/Wikimedia Commons

Watterson, a reclusive cartoonist who has reportedly granted few interviews, was born in 1958 in Washington, D.C. and grew up in Chagrin Falls, a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio.

The comic strip "Calvin and Hobbes" was syndicated from 1985 to 1995.

Along with other classics of the American cartoon universe, such as  "Peanuts" by Charles M. Schulz and "The Far Side" by Gary Larson, Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes" characters can definitely be considered part of the cannon of American art.