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Aug 09, 2008 15:11

You really have to admire the guy behind Garfield Minus Garfield. He simply removed the main character who hasn't said anything new in 30 years (hates Mondays, loves lasagna, we get it) and turned it into an existential work of genius. The guy's even getting his own book deal out of this. The sad part is that I think I'm much more like Jon Arbuckle ( Read more... )

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roses_rejoice August 10 2008, 00:24:41 UTC

Yeah I have seen that before and it is awesome. I never laughed at Garfield or thought it was funny and never understood why ANYONE else would like that strip. But without Garfield in the strip, it's hilarious genius.

I think part of it is the humor in recognizing that there's a whole "genre" of these strips that probably started with Peanuts, with a funny animal or silent human character who the more "normal" main human character bounces stuff off of. Once you take away the "sounding board" reactive character the strip is just like everyman talking to himself, it's a riot.

terry August 10 2008, 02:12:28 UTC

Yeah, Garfield and lots of other strips owe a big debt to Peanuts. The thing with Garfield is that Jon doesn't seem to interact or have any friends other than a fat orange cat. If he existed in real life he'd probably be put in a mental institution.

roses_rejoice August 10 2008, 01:10:26 UTC

Then I was scrolling my F-list and I came to some guy who'd linked to this. LJ VORTEX!!

http://sirive.livejournal.com/227577.html

terry August 10 2008, 02:17:56 UTC

Heh, I wondered when we'd see other comic strip mash-ups. Maybe they should take out Garfield permanently and randomly put him in other strips. He's already greatly improved Dilbert.

destruct August 10 2008, 08:12:03 UTC

apparently jim davis is a fan of garfield minus garfield!

i like garfield! maybe it's only because i loved it as a kid, but i still read garfield. i don't like when he's mean to odie or squashes spiders though. he's kind of a jerk and i appreciate that.

terry August 10 2008, 22:38:11 UTC

I have to give Jim Davis kudos for approving the book instead of sending the guy a cease and desist order. I also used to read Garfield as a kid back when it first came out. Reading the big Sunday comics pages was one of my favorite parts of the weekend along with Saturday morning cartoons. I haven't bought a Sunday paper in years though. I wonder if Broom Hilda is still around?