ven though the last strip of “Calvin and Hobbes” was published on December 31, 1995, apparently Calvin’s crazy snowman ideas lived on
It’s hard to say when people started making snowmen because they melt so quickly but, according to Bob Eckstein, who wrote The History Of The Snowman,
the first depiction of a snowman was in the Book Of Hours written in
1380. In the U.S., they were made a national winter pastime when Gene
Autry recorded his hit “Frosty the Snowman” in 1950
