Is garfild really unfunny? I mostly hear this from people

>>90273123
Are there people who actually 'read' Garfield? How sad.

>>90273123
But why would a person read it if they didn't think it was funny?

>>90273123
It's not the worst, but it's extremely bland and especially cheesy by today's standards.

>>90273123

As someone who has the whole collection up to book 47:

Hit and miss, but always a good read. That is also its secret. When it hits it can be incredibly good, like the "She's not here, will I do?" strip. Then inbetween there comes filler again, but even that makes you smile on occasion.

Which is also very to be expetec, the quality variies with who made the particular strip/ arch of strips because as we all know Jim davis himself hasn't done anything with the comic for a log time, those are ghostwriters and -drawers.

Zachary Johnson and Jeffrey Max gazed up at the enormous face. Nine years it had taken them to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of their noses. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. They had won the victory over themselves. They loved Jim Davis.

>>90273123
The first 15 or so years were funny, though it gradually got less funny after the 80s. Not all the time was it funny during those golden years either, but a good chunk was still full of funny strips, I think. I liked how a lot of it seemed to be observations of cat behavior that a lot of cat owners could probably relate to.

But just like The Simpsons, you can't expect it to stay good after being around for so long.

Does anybody have a link to that insane man raving about Garfield? I can't find it for some stupid reason

>>90273957
This one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAh9oLs67Cw

>>90273123
I enjoyed it when I was younger, can't really remember why. I think it's so popular because it manages to walk the line between wholesomeness and wit. It doesn't ever threaten or challenge you but it has just enough sarcasm to not be 100% milquetoast. And the designs are more memorable than your average comic.

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I chuckle at some

>>90273123

Garfield was designed around making Jim Davis money. It's pretty simple and soulless in it's aim. That's not to say it can't have a great gag or two every now and again but the main aim is just to churn out safe predictable strips that don't rock the boat. It's not as surreally unfunny as Heathcliff but even as newspaper comics go it's pretty bland.

The cat has your pipe.

>>90274642
Every comic strip is designed around making money, you goof. It's a fucking job. Before you bring up Watterson, ask yourself this: Are there Calvin & Hobbes books still in print?

>>90274597
dark

U.S. Acres is better

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>>90274755

>>90274716

Most strips aren't designed from the ground up to be the merchandising whores that Garfield was. Most start with a concept that the artist buys into and hopes to be able to make a living off of. Davis has been incredibly honest about Garfield being designed from the ground up as a soulless cash grab and the fact that he doesn't really give a fuck about the strip beyond that aim. I'm not really saying that's a bad thing per se just that it bleeds into the quality of the strip. Garfield is the equivalent of a movie made by committee. It was never about making something that was funny or thought provoking it was just about making something that would hit it with the right demographics.

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>>90274642
>Being this fucking wrong
I hate it when people think they're smart because they can parrot the majority opinion eloquently.

>>90274780
this makes my chest hurt, damn

>>90274780
Were the "horror theater" and "out of cookies" panels added in to soften this up? I remember the original strips didn't have that shit. Unless this is a shoop.

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>>90274832
Yeah, its edited, I was just looking for an image that had the whole thing and didn't notice. Here's without the added gags.

>>90274832
i think there's a book edition that needed another panel for space, and the horror theatre thing was supposed to round it all together in a solid story fashion for it being together instead of separated in different week strips

>>90274873
Actually, it was just some random cartoon strip website trying to be funny.

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I enjoy garfield

>>90274716
>>90274780
He's right though. Davis has spoken very honestly about how he specifically wanted to create a cash-cow franchise. I don't hold it against him, it's okay to aim at success or earn money by using your talents. And I personally like some of the strips (especially the earlier ones, and some of the later ones too). But either way, Garfield wasn't about any kind of lofty ideals involving art, comedy or creation; it was about Davis trying to come up with a marketable and profitable product.

>>90274088
Yea, same here actually. Reading the collections they at my libraries introduced me to the whole comic/comic strip thing. I honestly remember really liking the originals where it shows Garfield going out of his way to lazy with very little dialog

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what the fuck? this is sad

Why on Earth would you bother with Garfield when there's Calvin and Hobbes?

>>90275070
>why on earth would you bother with garfield when there is family circus?
FTFY

>>90274716
He denied companies the right to create merchandise because he wanted his strip to stand on it's own.

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hey fuckeroni garfielf is genuinely funny

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what did they mean by this?

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>>90274765

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how did they get away with this?

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>>90274755

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hmm is Jim Davis trying to say something?

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>>90275176

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>>90275282
Garfield makes him depressed by association, if Sexy Odie came by he'd cheer up

>>90275295
Was this canon?

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>>90274642
>safe predictable strips that don't rock the boat
it teaches what is wrong, and anything lewd is wrong and offensive

>>90275332
Yes it was his last strip

>>90275137
Watterson was the other extreme end on this topic. Davis was unashamed about his wish to create a brand and earn money, whereas Watterson was guarding over the characters and his copyrights so fiercely that it probably ended up being counter-productive to him. Instead of seeing Calvin & Hobbes in notepads, schoolbags or other harmless junk, all we've got are unlicensed peeing Calvin decals. And the guy's so reclusive. Maybe it works for him and maybe he's happy like that (I can understand his wish for privacy at least), but sometimes it sort of looks like he was so devoted to his artistic principles that it prevented him from enjoying his life.

I wouldn't like to be either a Watterson or a Davis. Maybe a Schulz; he continued drawing until the end of his life and he didn't have a problem with making some money from merchandising, but he wasn't such a whore about it as Davis. But then again, Schulz had his own personal problems too, and his lovelife wasn't always happy. Maybe you need to be a tortured soul in order to create something of worth. Or maybe we've all got our problems.

>>90275070
Because C&H ended over 20 years ago.

>>90273619
>But just like The Simpsons, you can't expect it to stay good after being around for so long.
I think the Simpsons comparison is very accurate. but what gets me is that everybody knows that The Simpsons is currently shitty and was once great. But it doesn't stop us from enjoying those great seasons. Conversely, people only seem to see that painfully boring unfunny comic that Garfield has become (and are VERY quick to mock it) but seem oblivious to the fact that it was once pretty funny.

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>>90275209
They need a new Necronomicon.

>>90277035
Tumblr has such a shit sense of humor

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>>90277035
the only funny thing about this comic is garfields head coming out of his bed

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>>90277624

>>90277035
How do you do a Garfield parody and manage to be less funny that a regular Garfield strip?

>>90277693
fucking up the characters

>>90277035
shit comic but a really interestingly drawn Garf

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>>90277693

They don't understand the characters or the comic that's how.

a good parody would just be Jon staring at a pen or watching paint dry.

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im about done

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I love this one

>>90273123
Honestly?

Just read them yourself and make your own opinion.

Don't rely on anons to form your own opinions, man.

I can now only hear John in Chris Parnell as Jerry Smith's voice.

Even better if you imagine Garfield with Rick's voice. They have the perfect cadence and pacing.

>>90280043
I just hear them in the live action movie voices

I've long loved the fact that Jim Davis was so savage towards Heathcliff for literally no reason and apparently not even out of genuine malice.

He's always said that he created Garfield because he spent time researching comics and dog lovers had good comics they could love but there were no good comics for cat lovers. Heathcliff predates Garfield by about 2 years.

Not only does Davis proceed to make a cat comic but he basically uses his research to design a cat character that can springboard off the most popular existing one.

Are there other /co/ examples of creators doing these sorts of things without any real ill intent?

Most newspaper strips are unfunny. They're written by and for boring, middle aged people whose only little joy in life is glancing over the funny pages in the morning after all.

>>90280192
I'm only 22... well my friends did always say I was mature for my age

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Post Jon comics

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Garfield > Stephan Strange

>>90275209
Well, Garfield meant "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits, dreaming".

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>>90273145
Fuck you buddy, Garfield is just too cool for you.

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did they forget to put a joke in this one?

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this is deep satire on the contrariety of human nature

Garfield without Garfield is actually funny, but this panel switches this anon is posting are absolutely boring and shit.

>>90282408
it's at least 2 anons, I posted the splot ones

>>90276030
You mean like this:

http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=garfield_sucks

Actually the strange thing I realized now is that I think more people today enjoy Garfield ironically and unironically than back then, and now there's a bunch of people on other boards have kind of turned on Maddox for a lot of reasons.

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>>90280172
Heathcliff has some fine pussy.

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look a shit

i honestly thought garfield and friends was good back then

mistakes will happen is kino

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>>90285058
I think I preferred the barnyard animals shorts to the Garfield ones, even though I can't remember any of their names.
I definitely liked Garfield & Friends.

>>90273123
I like the old stuff, like the first ten years. Basically any of the deadpan sarcastic stuff is what Davis is good at. Garfield himself is great when he's playing the morbid straight man. The arcs with visiting Jon's relatives are still some of the funniest shit ever in the funny pages.

>>90275203
Oh hey, someone saved the strip I made yesterday. Cool.

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>>90285257
The comics are pretty clever

>>90273123
It was good to great till around the early 90's, then it started going downhill at a steady rate as the years went on.

The first few TV specials were pretty good too.

>>90280043
I still hear them as the 80s cartoon voices.
Complete with fanfare when Odie appears onpanel.

>>90283363
Garfield's popularity was fucking huge in the 80s. You couldn't go anywhere without seeing dolls, books, toys, tie-ins, clothing, whatever with him, Nermal and Odie plastered on them, and this was years before Garfiend and Friends started.

>>90273123
it's a very hit or miss comic though i personally think that the newer one kinda suck

THE BREAKFAST WITH GARFIELD VIDEO HAS BEEN PULLED FROM YOUTUBE

THIS IS THE BEGINNING OF THE END, GET YOUR FILL WHILE YOU CAN

LIKE THE SAND CASTLES WE BUILT IN OUR YOUTHS, SO SHALL THEY VANISH WITH THE TIDE

>>90273123
Garfield minus Garfield is infinitely better

>>90289553
Ah, fuck. I really liked that one.

>>90289553
It was probably removed because they explicitly told their audience to contact Paws Inc and had an actual fucking employee name to specifically write to.

>>90282408
They're funny

>>90273123
I personally really enjoyed it, when I was like 8 years old

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>>90292988
>/co/ hates Garfield
Citation needed.

>>90293938
This thread is a bit of proof

>>90289199
It's true that it was huge in the 80's but in the 00's--when that Maddox article was written--Garfield was getting regularly ripped apart online and I don't know how popular it was in the 00's but I don't think it was as big as the 80's, even with the 00's live-action films.

Also looking at that article again:

> Then as if to piss all over our better judgement, Davis has received the National Cartoonist Society: Best Humor award. Twice. Garfield gets awarded for humor and "Family Guy" keeps getting canceled faster than a baby at Planned Parenthood.

Ah ha ha ha HA HA HA HA HA HA HA oh man, lamenting Family Guy's cancellation while bashing on Garfield, that's funny in retrospect.

>>90273241
Is that true?

I thought Jim Davis did every single one

>>90273123
I used to get those short and long books from my mom. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/dd/Garfield_at_Large_(Original).jpg
I read them to fall asleep. They aren't laugh out loud funny, but more like "hmmm that was funny."

>>90273241
It's uncomfortable that no one knows who is responsible for the comics now

>>90296251
I know one of the artists. He's an illustration professor at Ringling. He's a pretty cool guy. Took pride in any job he had including Garfield. Probably glad that people are getting back into Garfield. He had to go through a good decade of people shittalking the comic because it was just the popular consensus.

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>>90279095
kek

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>>90293938

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https://www.bgreco.net/garfield/

>>90296450
People are getting back into Garfield?

>>90297295
At the very least people aren't treating it like the nadir of medium anymore. And there's even been a comics pro or two praising its precision and ubiquitous nature. Nobody's saying it's great. They're just not treating it like radioactive garbage anymore.

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>>90297405
At first, I was dismissive.

But then I read the filename.

>>90299899
kek I actually laughed at this

>>90273123
>Is Garfield humor really funny?

Allow me to enlighten you, pleb:

>>90273962

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>>90297261
Hey, this is pretty neat.

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Subtle

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It was only a matter of time before someone posted this...

>>90300532
>Linking to someone else's post
>"Im enlightening you, idiot!"

>>90275833
I can't find it but I swear Watterson did a cartoon making fun of Davis where he's on a golf course and a robot with a batch of new comic strips arrives and he says "Another batch needing me signature, eh?"

You almost have to respect Davis for being so transparent in his mercantile goal. He wanted to sell a comic strip so he could merchandise it and make money. Sure, why not!

>>90275833
>Maybe you need to be a tortured soul in order to create something of worth.
>Or maybe we've all got our problems.
With that attitude, you can be the next Schulz!

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>>90302700
I got you covered

>>90300654
Now where could my pipe be?

>>90273123
As a kid, I read the strips and thought they were clever.

Now that I'm older, they're just reusing the same sarcastic jokes over and over.

It's clear that Jim Davis hasn't drawn a Garfield comic in decades and assistants merely put his signature on them.

I guess I should be outraged on some artistic level that these cookie-cutter factory produced comics designed only to make syndication and merchandising money but I'm not. There are better things to get mad about.

I need to develop this attitude to cartoons I care more about. I get pissed when I think how low Spongebob has stooped. I should really get over that though. It is ultimately a corporate product not aimed at my demographic. The fact that I enjoyed it at one time is insignificant.

>>90275070
Apples and oranges. You could have said Heathcliff, instead, if you wanted to mention a strip that's actually similar... except that I often get the feeling Heathcliff is meant to be surreal anti-humor, so even that is pretty different. At least in tone.

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>>90302729
Cheers, my man

>>90302700
>You almost have to respect Davis for being so transparent in his mercantile goal. He wanted to sell a comic strip so he could merchandise it and make money. Sure, why not!
This is why I can't hate the guy. He never hid his intentions and never tried to pretend he was doing anything but making a buck. The comic is still garbage but it's not like he thinks this is high hilarity.

>>90302700
>I can't find it but I swear Watterson did a cartoon making fun of Davis

It's not neccesarily Davis (though it wouldn't surprise me if he was also thinking of him). The joke about a cartoonist being so successful that he golfs while other people do the comic strip with his name on it has gone on for a long time.

In fact I vaguely remember in Comics Journal or something, in the 80's, where Don Simpson, upset about John Byrne's comments that seemed to diminish Kirby in the whole creators rights thing, said that in a just world, Kirby would be golfing while Byrne was ghosting for one of Kirby's comics. Or words to that effect.

>>90284048
Catillac Cats is kind of its own thing, despite being the "side B" of a Heathcliff show. Originally, that show was just going to be only the Catillac Cats, but Heathcliff ended up getting tacked on. I forget the reason why, though.

>>90275833
what about a Scott Adams or Gary Larson, those wouldn't be bad ones to emulate

we need some Liz and other Garfield girls in this thread

>>90275833
In an ideal world, I'd have a comic strip of my own and would be involved with the merchandising.

I loved owning graven images of my favourite cartoon characters as a kid and I'd like to try and put some creativity into the merch based on something I made. Something more imaginative than stock art on a backpack.

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>>90288871
There are some gems here and there.

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>>90297261
Thank you for this.

>>90303214
The thing about both Adams and Larson is that they had other things that made their comics work and couldn't exactly be emulated. Both their comics came out in a time when there were either very few (I think there were business strips before Dilbert, but at the same time they never really caught on the way Dilbert did) or no comics like them (I don't recall one-panel comics like Far Side before Far Side; there were one-panel comics like Marmaduke or Family Circus but that's a completely different set of humor than Far Side).

You could emulate them but then you'd be in a similar situation as Ctrl Alt Del is with Penny Arcade.

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>>90273123
He is the king of the sunday funnies.

Lycan Jonez has an update

>>90300654
I actually thought the pipe strip video was really interesting.

pipestrip

>>90291977
>>90289553
I'm actually kinda surprised that one got pulled first. I woulda thought the Phone Sex Survey would've gone down first.

>>90290403

>He didn't download all of them

What are you DOING?

Jon hits too close to home for many on /co/.

>>90303214
I adore them both. Larson had principles like Watterson; he killed the strip when he felt the time was right, and he prevented it from becoming a zombie. I think it's cool how he managed to make a career drawing ugly animals and black humor even though most newspaper comics tend to play things safe. He was lucky to have some very lenient editors, and he appreciated them too; he valued their feedback on those strips that were considered too risky for newspaper standards.
His approach to copyrights is a little overly emotional though. He's requested his fans to not share his works online, which I think is a shame. Sharing a creator's work on the internet can work as grassroots marketing that gets new people interested in it.

As for Adams, I don't really have anything negative to say about him. He's been drawing a daily strip comic for nearly 30 years in an amazingly consistent quality. The stuff he writes on his blog is often thought-provoking. He has some interest in controversial political topics, but he keeps it to that blog and rarely brings it up in the comic (and whenever he does, it's so vague you can interpret it either way). He came up with the idea of inserting his e-mail into his early comics to encourage more interaction with his readership, and reader feedback helped him figure out how to perfect the strip's appeal. All his comics are freely online, yet he's still able to make money from them too. He seems really chill and reasonable about everything.

>>90273123

All cartoons and comics made today are unfunny yet people on this board seem to like them anyway. I don't see why Garfield is singled out.

>>90289553
That was probably my favorite out of the new ones, damn

I hope someone else is archiving them all because I'm too lazy

>>90289553
I downloaded all the Lasagna Cat videos in case this happened, does somebody want it?

>>90304451

The only one I am missing is the old Desperados one with audio.

>>90297295
Well, with the return of Lasagna Cat, it's to be expected

>>90304451
Sure, put up a torrent and I'll seed it

>>90304552
https://mega.nz/#!o0BiCBJK!WDrxeI9zx0KvdPcOPYpWmcUzovYzSg8vLN4aCHdaGwo

I'm the only one who likes more Garfield in the older strips? Where he does look like an actual cat , isn't bipedal and hasn't giant and ugly as a sin feet ?

>>90304588
when did the change start?

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>>90305464
He was experimenting with bipedal walk in 1981 and it got called out in the comic. After that, he would alternate between bipedal and quadrupedal walk for several years, until eventually turning exclusively bipedal.

>>90303768
I hope you realize that almost every piece of information from that video is completely made up. There is no Ernie Barguckle or aristocratic newspaper grip.

>>90304451
>>90304586
Thank you anon.

>>90305613
I do, but it was still incredibly interesting. In the sort of way that a fictional story can keep you entertained.

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>>90305612

>>90305680
thats cute

how the fuck do they know if they've done a joke before?

>>90273123
Garfield without Garfield is kinda funny sometimes, in a non-sequiter kind of way.

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What is the Garfield inclusive version of this?

>>90297295
Since Liz and John got together, more people are interested in it if only for the fact that it's a little different now.
>>90283363
Seanbaby was always funnier

>>90311756
Wait, so the second movie is canon?

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>>90314589
The next day

>>90314170
No they just did their own way of getting Jon and Liz together.

>>90302793
Get Fuzzy has a similar dynamic too.

>>90314807
Cuck
.

>>90273123
Depends on the strip, but it's usually mediocre.

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There's some form of commentary in this one

>>90315272
probably used to be Cluck

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>>90305680
>Leeman

>>90285568
I make love to you if I could

>>90273123
I think Garfield was really funny at some point, maybe somewhere around 80s or 90s, but then it got too popular and became a husk of itself

>>90273123
Yeah, it's not funny. Earlier strips were better, now it's just a dead horse. Even the strip you posted, there has to be like a hundred just like that and that's not even a good one.

>>90275233
kek

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garfield is kino

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the comic generator is amazing

>>90323061
Also try
http://joshmillard.com/garkov/

>>90273123
i generally found the parodies like lasagna cat & garfield minus garfield funier than the actual strips

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>>90323902
Amazing.

>>90303996
>All his comics are freely online, yet he's still able to make money from them too. He seems really chill and reasonable about everything.

This is true for Garfield too. You can read every Garfield strip from the beginning to today on garfield.com, and you've been able to since forever. And Jim Davis always seems like a super chill dude in interviews.

Speaking of garfield.com, I read through the entire comic archive when I was in middle school (around 2005 or so). IIRC, Garfield hit it's creative peak from 1982-1992, and started going downhill fast after 1998 (presumably the point where Jim Davis stopped giving a shit and the writers started writing "Garfield comics" as opposed to "funny comics")

Also, this is officially the darkest official Garfield thing ever. If you've ever wanted to see Garfield: Felidae/Plague Dogs edition, here's your chance. I can't believe they actually made this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkdvyc92_8w

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this comic generator really IS amazing

>>90273150
You realize this is /co/ right?

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Who's there????

>>90324607
this guy is so perfect in the role of jon somehow

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>>90323902
Who knew Jon got turned on by cats manhandling silverware.

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>>90324644
"This guy is so perfect in the role of jon somehow," who?

>>90324757
this guy is so perfect in the role of jon somehow, two and a half men

>>90282408
Yeah the thread on /v/ was much funnier.

People are rating the lasagnacat videos there.

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>>90323902

>>90325481
>THERE IT IS!
God dammit, I can't stop laughing now, why is this funny to me? Is it because I'm drunk?

>>90326223
It's is because you have made a connection through art.

Now you may share stories like old friends with other people who, like you, have discovered the greatness that is the Pipe strip.

>>90273123
It was decent through about the mid '90s.

I like how Davis also seems to enjoy all the parodies. Has he said anything about Lasagna Cat?

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>>90323902

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>>90324751

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YOU CAN'T GO BACK, JON

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>abloo bloo bloo

>>90273241
Have to agree with this guy.

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>>90323902
>jon finds out about the internet in 2008

>>90277714
THIS.
Even Gamesfield did it better.

>>90285257
>I can't remember any of their names
The egg-guy was Bo, right?

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>take that stupid
fuck you jon

>>90330179
No, that was Sheldon. You know, SHELL-don. Bo was the sheep.

>>90295847

No. He claims he does but multiple people came out and said no. He mainly just sticks his name on everything.

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GRANDAD??!!

>>90295847
At some point the comic got successful enough for him to get ghost artists and writers (similar to a lot of other cartoonists). it's possible he still contributes ideas and things but he's usually overseeing it rather than doing everything involved with the comic himself every day.

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>>90330345
What's with the abundance of "Musical Notes"??

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>>90323902
>http://joshmillard.com/garkov/
I uh... got this and now I'm uncomfortable

Family Circus > Garfield

>>90323902
Every time my text bubbles come out saying "Whew! last trip"

Am I doing something wrong?

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>>90273123
I made a funee

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What the fuck?

>>90330772
UUUU
UUUU
UUUU

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That's a pretty funky dance, Garfield, show me how you do it!

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>>90323902

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odie nO

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>>90330345
GRANDMA??!!

>>90275176
>>90275295

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>give him the z

>>90297405
art

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>EVERYBODY'S WORKING FOR THE WEEKEND
>EVERYBODY WANTS A NEW ROMANCE
>OH
>OKAY

>>90330941
musical notes

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>>90330916

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>>90330802
Now where could my Accordion be?

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>"We finish each other's--"

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>>90330954
>>90330464

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my god

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Garfield, I know it's no fun being in a cast, Garfield, but don't worry Garfield, you're only Garfield

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>suicide is painless starts playing

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What does going Macho mean in this moment?

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stop fucking interrupting me

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I guess not.

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>>90331135
That's damn good

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this one kills me

>>90274716
Uh. Yes? Yes there are? Although the series is complete, it goes through a full reprint on about a 6 year cycle as far as I can tell, and is likely still profitable?

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The best ever

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>>90331084
I like how the site mixes the comics dialouge at the right moments

>>90328920
His company nearly immediately shut down one of the new videos that contained personal information of its employees at the end, so at the very least, people within the company have watched the videos, and they at least watched the entirety of the removed one.

https://youtu.be/qtbGguSM5nQ

>>90331494
Wasn't so bad until Jon's head exploded

Never Forget
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_KVsQXeE6A

>>90331712
G A R F I E L D ?!?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrn4oXRBpqE

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You don't have to tell me twice, but during the stone age-!

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I really hope people laugh at this as hard as I did

>>90277679
Reverse pretty awesome

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Post good unedited comics

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>>90332096

>>90324432
>Also, this is officially the darkest official Garfield thing ever. If you've ever wanted to see Garfield: Felidae/Plague Dogs edition, here's your chance. I can't believe they actually made this:
Nah, it's not. It's based on a book Garfield And His Nine Lives, and there's a story they didn't put in the adaptation. It's called "Primal Self". You can find it online. It's short, but just... wow

>>90332215
I don't see how you just said it's not but then you agree it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OdrO-dEhB0

>>90332538
I wish reviewers would stop animating themselves and/or giving themselves art in the thumbnails

>>90332516
What? That anon said that the darkest official Garfield story is this one
https://jacks-attic.com/2011/10/29/the-horrors-of-garfield/
while the other anon said it's this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fkdvyc92_8w
They're not the same story, even though the comicbook and the cartoon special share the same name.

>>90332575
Both make me sad and close to tearing up

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GRAND

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This one was worth it.

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If you make financial decisions in your sleep, you might be a Jon

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N U T S H A C K

SOUP

SCRATCH HIGHER

MUSICAL NOTES

A

Z

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this worked perfectly

>>90333966
80% of my outcomes

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I never liked Bubba, did you?

Well did you?

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I need new sides

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I FEEL GOOD
SO GOOD

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>when i turn 30

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there can be only one

>>90334118
Aww, he looks like a litte kid

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This one is just too surreal.

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i l o v e t o s l u c k

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Garfield is the best anime

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The more you think about it the deeper it is

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Stop making farm animal noises and feed me already, you cunt

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Relatable

I woke up screaming this a week ago because I just realized we didn't get snow this year (for last year)

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garfield_(character)&action=history

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Garfield_(character)&action=history
(Updated to reflect Garfield's self-identified religion)
(Gender is fluid. He may have been a boy in 1981, but he's not now. Do better)
(added reference indicating that garfield self-identifies as a boy)
(Fixed the gender; fellow characters referring to G as male don't outweigh the creator saying he isn't. They could be mistaken, after all)
(garfield is genderless)
(Reverted sex to male and provided references to show that Garfield has been referred to by male pronouns and nouns (e.g. "boy") from the beginning of the strip.)
(The source is Jim Davis, creator of Garfield and controller of Garfield canon. Please discuss this with your fellow Wikipedians on the Talk page before making radical changes to Garfield's gender. Thanks.)
(fixing Inaccurate gender)

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We've done it, we've perfected cat cloning, we just have to get him to stop speaking his actions, and work on his grammar.

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RIP

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>>90332013
MY CAR!!

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awaken my master

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im dying