Comic strip relating to cycling - Cycling Mob: Road Cycling, Mountain Biking and More

01-06-2004, 07:09 AM

This one Calvin and Hobbs comic strip relating to cycling is my all time
favorite.
I believe all of us can relate to it. I've got it framed and hanging in my bath
room.
Appeared in newspaper 8/02/92.

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Jim

01-06-2004, 07:40 AM

"Jpfler" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> This one Calvin and Hobbs comic strip relating to cycling is my all time
> favorite.
> I believe all of us can relate to it. I've got it framed and hanging in my
bath
> room.
> Appeared in newspaper 8/02/92.
>
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
>
> Jim
I don't think that's as good as the one I have framed and hanging in MY
bathroom. I don't have a link to it, but Calvin and Hobbs are spending a
winter afternoon walking around "looking for weirdness." They find a weird
rock here and a weird stick there. At one point they find an old kite
hanging from a tree and Calvin says, "you know what would be weird? If we
found a skeleton of a kid hanging at the other end." Hobbs says, "yeah,
that would be weird." Then dad rides by on his mtb, all bundled up against
the cold and mumbling to himself something like, "my nose is frozen and I
can't feel my toes, but my heart rate is the envy of men half my age."
Calvin and Hobbs look blankly at each other. Calvin says, "weirdness always
begins at home" and Hobbs says, "even when you look for it, you're never
prepared for it."

Bob C.

01-06-2004, 07:51 AM

psycholist wrote:
> "Jpfler" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
> news:[Only registered and activated users can see links. ].com...
>> This one Calvin and Hobbs comic strip relating to cycling is my all
>> time favorite.
>> I believe all of us can relate to it. I've got it framed and hanging
>> in my bath room.
>> Appeared in newspaper 8/02/92.
>>
>> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]
>>
>> Jim
> I don't think that's as good as the one I have framed and hanging in
> MY bathroom. I don't have a link to it, but Calvin and Hobbs are
> spending a winter afternoon walking around "looking for weirdness."
> They find a weird rock here and a weird stick there. At one point
> they find an old kite hanging from a tree and Calvin says, "you know
> what would be weird? If we found a skeleton of a kid hanging at the
> other end." Hobbs says, "yeah, that would be weird." Then dad rides
> by on his mtb, all bundled up against the cold and mumbling to
> himself something like, "my nose is frozen and I can't feel my toes,
> but my heart rate is the envy of men half my age." Calvin and Hobbs
> look blankly at each other. Calvin says, "weirdness always begins at
> home" and Hobbs says, "even when you look for it, you're never
> prepared for it."
>
> Bob C.

Your strip is just a couple of right arrow clicks away on the link the OP
included.
Starange as it may be. I also have a Calvin and Hobbs strip framed and
hanging on my wall right above me right now. It was given to me by my wife
and daughter on my birthday.

Dad all dressed up in cycling gear says. I'm going for a bike ride.
The wife giggles a little and dad asks what she is laughing at. She says,
nothing have a nice time, hiding her mouth with her hand.
In the next frame dad is telling Calvin. Well, I didn't design these clothes
.. They are practical.
Calvin asks. Dad, how did you manage to get your head stuck in a
bowlingball?
In the last frame dad is bicycling away muttering. Next time I'm gonna
squirt them both with my waterbottle.

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Perre

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01-06-2004, 07:55 AM

Not the best ever, but look at Monday's Ziggy.

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David L. Johnson

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01-06-2004, 10:15 AM

"Jpfler" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> This one Calvin and Hobbs comic strip relating to cycling is my all time
> favorite.
> I believe all of us can relate to it. I've got it framed and hanging in my
bath
> room.
> Appeared in newspaper 8/02/92.
>
> [Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

Bill W. said that he always got a good response from cyclists when he'd do a
strip like that. He himself really enjoyed bicycling. He also said that he
hated it when other comic artists would do golf-related strips -- they
seemed so self-indulgent, so he tried to keep the cycling-related strips to
a minimum.

A loss for us all, eh?

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01-07-2004, 05:43 AM

> ... they seemed so self-indulgent, so he tried to keep the
> cycling-related strips to a minimum.
>
> A loss for us all, eh?

=v= Quite so. At least we've now got _Frazz_, a grade school
janitor who bikes to work and spends his weekends biking,
except when he's skiing in his bike jacket:

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=v= Oh, and I've lived this particular strip:

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<_Jym_>