Calvin and Hobbes, animated. Simply and brilliantly.

I love this! I found an animated gif of it yesterday on Imgur:

Would be wonderful if Bill Watterson would approve a full series of shorts like this. 

I know, right?

I found the original (unanimated):

There's another great animation by the same person here:

http://pandawhale.com/post/16535/calvin-and-hobbes-wash-dress-comb-done-gif

There's more discussion of the animated gif on Reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/gifs/comments/1amylu/awesome_animated_calvin_hobbes_strip/

From that discussion are the words of Bill Watterson himself:

Actually, I wasn't against all merchandising when I started the strip, but each product I considered seemed to violate the spirit of the strip, contradict its message, and take me away from the work I loved. If my syndicate had let it go at that, the decision would have taken maybe 30 seconds of my life...

This is why (so far) there has been no official animated short.

I also added a bunch of Calvin and Hobbes animated gifs here:

http://pandawhale.com/post/9237/calvin-and-hobbes-gifs

Enjoy!