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Cleats is a comic strip by Bill Hinds. ''Cleats'' features a group of young kids, coaches, and their parents as they deal with the day-to-day trials and tribulations of being on a soccer team (Although there are storylines that have the kids engaged in physical sports other than soccer). ''Cleats'' was carried in over 75 newspapers〔(【引用サイトリンク】 author=Andrew McMeel Publishing )〕 The last iteration of ''Cleats'' had been run on 31 October 2010, in the form of a special Halloween 'exit' strip. Bill Hinds stated that he had ceased producing ''Cleats'' because the strip "had suffered in many newspaper comic polls over the past nine years." In many newspapers, editors have chosen to run the earliest ''Cleats'' strips again, allowing readers to compare Hinds' initial style and characters against their more recent development. This has resulted in previous Sunday strips appearing on weekdays, but has opened to broad examination the processes by which a professional cartoonist evolves his work over years of production. ==Characters== *Abby Harper, 11, "competitive but not mean." *Peri, Abby's African-American best friend. *Jack Dooley, 10. Dreams of playing in the World Cup. *Armando "Mondo" Ruiz. Jack's best friend. Has a crush on Abby. *Dee Radomski, a goalkeeper. Has a major crush on Edith. *Edith Tippet, also a keeper. A reluctant athlete who would rather read. Does not reciprocate Dee's crush, but enjoys his weirdness. Just before the strip ended, she accepted Dee's invitation to go to the movies. This was correctly perceived as a sign that the End was coming. *Jerome, son of the assistant coach and grandson of a curmudgeon who makes sarcastic remarks about modern sports. Jerome and Dee are best friends and play baseball together as well as soccer. Dee and Jerome like to send each other text messages, even while they are sitting a couple of feet apart from each other. Just the thing to drive Grandpa nuts. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Cleats (comic strip)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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