Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 09, 2011

I like this football better than what we normally see on Sunday.

You gotta be a football hero to get the smooches of the beautiful girls …Or something like that.

Ol Hobbes sure likes his smooches doesn’t he…lol

Smooches for the winner!

Gracias for smooches!!

We should all be so lucky to get smooches for gaining a yard.

I love Hobbes!…

In this version of football, you win by out-imagining the other team.

We have now passed the halfway mark of Bill Watterson’s first sabbatical, which was 9 months long. During that 9 months, very early strips were rerun in the newspapers, selected from the first 14 months of the strip. Those are the strips that we have been reading since May.Today’s strip was created after Bill Watterson had been drawing Calvin and Hobbes for only 9 months, but already it is looking like Bill’s much later strips.These early strips will continue until the first week of February, and then we should again be seeing the later strips.

So it was all worth it

Most organized sports are meaningless to me, but I like how Calvin and Hobbes play. Calvinball anyone?

That last panel is one reason I love Hobbes… Always ready for the smooches from the girls! :-D

He’s got an old pigskin! I never noticed that before!

Heck with two heads, two imaginations are better than one. This could make me finally like football, assuming only C&H played.

Smooches from the cheerleaders would certainly motivate me.

Has Hobbes ever thought of taking up classical ballet? He’s so graceful in the fourth panel.

“These early strips will continue until the first week of February, and then we should again be seeing the later strips.”

Seems like a strange conceit on the part of the syndicate, to insert a series of “vacation” strips for a sabbatical which occurred 20 years ago. Why not just run the strip from beginning to end with no pointless interruptions?

That is just so cute in the 6th Panel.

xxx

yeahhhhhhhhh we are the champion…I LOVE C&H

Coincidence? http://www.kevinandkell.com/2011/kk1009.html

Thanks to those who responded to my query about flagging comments. I appreciate your help.

To Hobbes its all worth it, not winning, butt the all important smooches.

Hobbes has a one-track mind.

wow only calvin could do that with his stuffed tiger

Hi JohnDiFoolThe problem for the syndicate involves trying to keep the strip’s seasons in sync with our actual seasons when we are reading the reruns. If Bill Watterson had taken sabbaticals that were 1 year long, they would not have this problem. But he only took 9 months each time, so right now they still need 9 months of “filler” to keep the seasons in sync. Either that, or they would always have to skip the first 3 months of strips that he drew after each 9-month sabbatical.Bill went on his first sabbatical in May and returned in February. So if they were to skip the sabbatical reruns, initially we would be reading May reruns during May, and then we would suddenly be reading February reruns (with snow) during May. Then, the following March we would be reading Christmas reruns, and so on.So there is no perfect solution, and they have opted to rerun the 9 months of filler material from each sabbatical, rather than skip some of the strips and never rerun them. Unfortunately, this means that during each 10-year period of reruns, more than 500 of the strips are seen twice, whereas all of the rest are seen only once. After multiple decades of reruns, those 500 strips begin to look very familiar.

Fine display of the team concept of football,

I love C&H strips like this. Is there a such a thing as abad C&H strip?

i love this strip

Now THIS is football.

only Calvin would have a pig skin on hand…

This cartoon seems more like a verbal boxing match than football. I haven’t had any smoochies in years, bleah…..I think Calvin’s nickname should be “Crash”, but what do I know?

I always did love how the “commentary” changes character as the strip progresses.

bro when the imposter be sus he took that pigskin right off