Calvin and Hobbes 1985 Syndicate Promotional Packet

  

As D.D. Degg writes over at the Daily Cartoonist:

"Back before Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson became the mega comic strip hit it was to become the first appearance was seen in the Universal Press Syndicate press kit sent to newspaper editors. Connor Ratliff presents the entire Calvin and Hobbes press kit from the mid-1980s on his Bluesky page." 

Here are a few of those pages from the Universal Press pitch way back in 1985.