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Between cooking, shopping for gifts and getting ready to travel or welcoming all of your out-of-town guests, the holiday season is the most stressful time of the year. Well, we're here to make things easier for you.

Beer – the fifth food group.

Since publishing the last 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip on December 31, 1995, Bill Watterson, the notoriously private creator behind the series, has only granted one interview (an e-mail exchange with his hometown newspaper, the Plain Dealer, on the 15th anniversary of the strip). Many have tried to get in touch with Mr. Watterson over the years (and a documentary is scheduled to hit theaters th