"This book is an absurdity. How do you collect something of which there is nothing to collect?" So begins The Essential Guide to COLLECTING Calvin and Hobbes.

At once a requisite collector's guide and a pursuit of meaning within storytelling, The Essential Guide to COLLECTING Calvin and Hobbes also offers a critical appraisal of Bill Watterson, as well as a deep examination of the most obscure Calvin and Hobbes relic, the textbook Teaching with Calvin and Hobbes: "a miraculous artifact unlike any other collectible in the world."