Is Garfield a good comic strip?

No.

Yes.

Sometimes

inb4 pipe

>>93689380
Heathcliff established rock bottom but damn does Garfield come close

>>93689985
I laughed at that one its pretty good honestly

>>93690148
clunky first draft dialogue

>>93689380
I swore there was some interview where Jim Davis admitted that Garfield was done purely for the money, he was competent enough to gauge the market and produce a product inoffensive enough to be everywhere and hitting the proper signifiers to appeal to a broad audience.

But I can't produce a source for that, so maybe it was hearsay or at worst a misremembered parody article.

oops.

None the less, the market for newspaper comics is profoundly different than other comic markets. Like the exact opposite of how modern Marvel editorial tries to work.

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Storytiming how Jon and Liz hooked up.

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>>93690462
I remember when this first ran, I was gobsmacked that Garfield was doing an actual storyline for the first time in Davis-knows-how-long.

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>>93690484

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>>93689380

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>>93690484
>She's asking to see us!
>that enthusiasm
Thats profoundly sad
Jon bums me out

Garfield is the reason Lasagna Cat exists, so yes.

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>>93690584

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>>93690578
Patience, anon.

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>>93690619

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>>93690633

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>>93690619
These are decent

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>>93690654

https://youtu.be/NAh9oLs67Cw

>>93689380
Yes. Really there's nothing wrong with it

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>>93690676

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>>93689985
Is this a penis joke?

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>>93690720

>>93690722
No, but I get you.

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>>93690760
>11 years ago today

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>>93690793

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This one's epic!

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>>93690815
A week of unrelated gag strips later, we resume.

>>93690720
Wait was this the first time they met?

>>93690822
Hey, a Heathcliff strip with an actual joke.

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>>93690831

>>93690844
Nah, Garfield's just being Garfield.

Anyone has those randomized comics?

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>>93690870
Fun fact: Ellen was one of the more recurring "Jon strikes out over the phone" names, but this is her first actual appearance.

>>93690870
>I'm surprised you remember
Holy shit Garfield

>>93690682
I can't be the only one that saw this without pausing right?

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>>93690897

>>93690869
This?
https://www.bgreco.net/garfield/

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>>93690897

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>>93690917
>DUN-DUN-DUNNNNN

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>>93690936

>>93690936
Jon is very self explanatory but I wonder why she is still single

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>>93690966

>>93690964
Personality

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>>93691000

>>93691000
>need directions
topkek, why can't we just have a spin off about Jon's love life with Garfield being the cheeky wingman

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>>93691025
A moment decades in the making.

>>93689380
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmKX6GhRBC8

>>93691000
This reminds me of how my aunt and Uncle hooked up
They were on a double date and their dates ditched them for each other so they essentially just followed suit
Now 30 some years later they're still happily married

>>93691035
Lotta strips with Liz are pretty much that.

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>>93691046
And so it ends.

Or rather, begins.

>>93691046
gg

>>93691025
I guess Jon triggers her motherly instincts

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>>93691035
>>93691059
Garfield's a great wingman even when he's not there.

>>93690682
>https://youtu.be/

>>93689380
Yes

>>93693692
Why?

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Personal favorite arc right here.

>>93694461
I liked the arc where Garlfliefd awakens his sharingan

>>93690537
>microsoft sam trash

>>93694407
I find it comfy/funny.

>>93690462
Shit I remember reading this as it happened
Proper respect to jon for smashing after a quarter century of trying

>>93690676
Punished Garfield
A cat denied his name

>>93690897
Who brings a cat on a date

>>93691054
Pretty cool

>>93689380
yes. when i was 18...

>>93696063
A lonely cat fucker.

>>93695160
>Ever using comfy as a buzzword

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>>93690173
Heathcliff is a masterpiece, it's Garfield that's shit

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>>93690936
>CHINNED

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>>93690234
>shut up and conga

>>93690870
DESTROYED

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>>93704107

>>93690870
FUCKING ANNIHILATED

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>>93691046
>Jon Arbuckle has had more sex than you

>>93690633

I thought Garfield was better than that, that he refused to eat birds and mice.

>>93705683
He doesn't eat mice because they taste gross. Birds he's always eaten.

>>93691046
Was that their first time ever kissing? It couldn't have been

>>93705662
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENnAa7rqtBM

>>93707087
Okay, that one's actually kind of funny

>>93689874
This. I've been randomly surfing through Garfield strips on the site recently out of boredom and some of them were pretty funny, while others were lazy as hell. It feels that Davis or whoever is doing these now can occasionally come with a good joke but obviously not every day for 40+ years.

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>>93690234
>the whole neighborhood is gonna have a good time
you feel polka crawling on your back

>>93702136
gross

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>>93690234

>>93709865
Fuck I remember reading these as they came out. Was it 2005?

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>>93709918
That one was 2007. The dates are in the filenames.

>>93710592
>Bruno Bucciarati

>>93689887
that really was the thinking mans strip

>>93690633
alright that was cute

>>93711745
Holy shit, Jon can read minds.

>>93690173
Marmaduke

>>93694616
>microsoft sam

>>93702985
Nice

>>93705662
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgmoMO66uPg&feature=youtu.be&t=16429
Unless you've had -1 sexual partners, this source disagrees with you.

>>93713425
>&feature=youtu.be

>>93711745
But how?

>>93702136
https://youtu.be/0me85CYF46c?t=105

>>93705806
I think it's happened once or twice before, I don't remember the specific strip though

>>93691593
That's cute

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>>93713184

>>93700128
Just switch the first two panels.

>>93718812
nice

>>93710592
NOMURAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

>>93694527
>Garlfliefd

>>93690201
>its pretty good honestly

*it's pretty good honestly

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oy yoy yoy yo yoy

>>93713425
I still don't really understand why they came back. It's amazing that they did come back, but why?

>>93689380
it's harmless and inoffensive

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square root of minus garfield is the thinking man's comic strip

>>93710592
>Jon explains Japanese character design

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>>93704235
I-Is Garfield attracted to Liz??

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>>93724027

>>93690936
third panel is one of the most non-standard Garfield panels i've ever seen

>>93691054
>union based on cuckoldry and being rejected
>happily

>>93724027
Yes.

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From the moment I read it, until the end of my days, I will hold the "Lemonade" strip up as a work of comic genius.

I think Garfield's alright. People gripe about how Davis just made the comic for profit, but heck, every other comic out there is made just for profit. If anything, Garfield's popularity just goes to show how good he was at it. I don't think any random schmo could make something as big as Garfield even if they tried doing something just for the money.

>>93690870
Burn never stops

>>93705662
He tries a lot unlike you, bud

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>>93689380
Only up until Jon starts seeing the vet. Best story was visiting the farm. The time Garfield got lost on Halloween was pretty epic too.

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>>93733007
>shitting on Jon's dance moves
What the fuck, Liz

>>93721897
They'd been working on a second wave of videos as far back as when the first wave was released nine years ago. There were even two music videos that they didn't release at the time, the dingleball.com one and the cupcake mouse one.

As far as why they did it, they just want to go the extra mile on things.

>>93729771
>every other comic out there is made just for profit

Don't tell that to Watterson.

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>>93734422
I don't like this one

>>93729459
Damn, remember when Jon smoked a pipe?

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>>93735737
Lasagna Cat needs to do this one.

>>93711745
I've never understood whether Jon is actually hearing Garfield's thoughts or not

>>93740038
He seems to hear him in the old cartoon.

>>93689380
heathcliff is better

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>>93737224
>YFW THE PIPE STRIP