Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 02, 2014

what this a one legged race or a slow-mo race?

This may become an Olympic event in the future.

But a funny cheater!

For shame, Hobbes… ;)

Well, it’s more exciting than soccer!

Calvin is browned off ‘cos HE didn’t think of it first.

Cheating? I wan’t to see the rule book

@Hobbes. Thank you VERY much for the “black and white” strip yesterday. Really appreciate it.

“The race is not to the swift.”— Ecclesiastes 9:11

Click here: Reality Check (July 1, 2013)Click here: Peanuts (May 8, 1961)Here’s one from the third month of Peanuts, back when Snoopy looked like a real dog with a pointed nose and Charlie Brown’s head was bigger than his body:Click here: Peanuts (January 30, 1951)And here is the same idea in a more recent strip by Brian Basset:Click here: Red and Rover (June 9, 2009)Brian Basset is one of today’s best comic strip writers, who has created some truly wonderful Red and Rover strips. Here are two more examples on today’s theme:Click here: Red and Rover (January 24, 2013)Click here: Red and Rover (August 8, 2013)Like Red and his dog Rover, Calvin and his friend Hobbes savor the journey of life every step of the way.

@Michael Ford: You’re welcome. Glad I could help you find it.

Reply from yesterday:flowergirl19 wrote: “@Hobbes: Thanks for your fascinating commentary and posting the old strips. I really love the 04/16/91 strip; if I could post it here on my profile as a favorite, I would. C&H is definitely the greatest comic strip ever, bar none. No other strip even comes close :)”

Yeah, I remember doing that as a kid…

They must be imitating the garbage collectors on my block.

@lightenup: Red and Rover contains many of the elements of Calvin and Hobbes and Peanuts that made those strips so popular. What is amazing about Brian is that he is able to be so original after so many good ideas have already been used up by Bill Watterson and Charles Schulz.

If you can’t play and cheat, don’t play.

If you can’t cheat, change the rules. (Banks, insurance companies and the Government do this all the time).

Hobbes(Reply's not working ????)-----------------------The "Reality Check" 'toon reminds me of the overly polite gophers, *Mac* and *Tosh* from the old @Warner Bros. cartoons; themselves based on the 1900’s comic strip Alphonse and Gaston .

@Hobbes:re: yesterday’s commentThanks for your observation; I didn’t see it this way.

Hi neverenoughgold. I was reminded of a political comedy speech by Pat Paulsen:I’m not left wing or right wing. I’m middle of the bird. If you’re too much left wing or too much right wing, you tend to fly around in concentric circles.I have trouble visualizing that one. I guess the tips of the wings would move in concentric circles, since the wings would be of two different lengths. Maybe Pat Paulsen got his terminology wrong. Or maybe he just said it because “concentric” is a funny-sounding word.

Calvin and Hobbes are having a race and Hobbes is going so slow that he is moving backwards. Calvin thinks that is cheating!