Garfield strips that are really, genuinely funny: show me them!

no erasing thought bubbles or rearranging panels plz. this is supposed to be difficult.

complete archive here

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yay thread!!

:)

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It should really be Jon in a straitjacket and padded room, but Jim Davis isn't willing to push the limits that far.

it would be so badass if the very last Garfield strip went down that way. it'd sure beat Charles Schulz's maudlin "Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, how will I ever forget them" farewell, at any rate.

lol health food store

Arbuckle laced up in a padded room going, "Garfield, Odie, Nermal, how will I ever forget them?"

As Lyman and the veterinarian hold hands and watch the buildings collapse.

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:)

relevant:

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in the really, genuinely depressing category:

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omg that mouse one!

for some reason i LOVE when garfield watches TV

it's the piercing social commentary, surely.

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<3

who's the other, non-Jon mustacheguy in that first strip?

Lyman was a friend of Jon's who lived with him for a while and was the original owner of Odie. He first appeared on August 7, 1978. However, he disappeared from the comic in 1983 and his disappearance was never fully elaborated upon. His last appearance in the strip was a cameo on Garfield's 10th Birthday June 19, 1988 where he appears in the title panel seated between Jon's Dad and Liz, he also appears in a flashback panel within the strip. Recently, Davis was forced to directly address the issue of 'What happened to Lyman?'. According to Davis, Lyman's original purpose was to be someone who Jon could actually talk to and express other ideas—a role more and more taken over by Garfield himself. Hence he was removed without explanation. The closest thing Davis has ever given to explain his absence is "Don't look in Jon's basement".

In the Web game "Scary Scavenger Hunt" he's shown chained onto the wall in the basement of a haunted mansion as well as screaming in a bathtub upstairs (in a scene clearly referencing the "shower scene" in the film Psycho; even the screeching violins from the infamous scene are played here). In "Scary Scavenger Hunt 2", his head is found inside the kitchen oven.

just for posterity--this was the first thread i unbookmarked using the remove bkmk from this thread link

just bkmk'ed your post there

and yours there

lmao @ "bowling for meatloaf"

these are actually....funny??

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^^^ lolz 4 all time

the problem is i show stuff like that to friends of mine and LOL and then they think i have a mental problem

many more genuinely funny garfield strips here

Random Garfield Generator

ilx 2007 vs ilx 2009

no that thread is the best

this thread is supposed to be unadulterated strips tho

no erasing thought bubbles or rearranging panels plz. this is supposed to be difficult.

Like the guy who put the Barack Spock pic on the NO PHOTOSHOPS thread.

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also lol @ the middle 3 panels
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Yabba!
Yabba!
Yabba!

the middle 3 panels would be even more brilliant if they were presented as a regular weekday strip w/ no explanation or backstory whatsoever.

WOING!

I have fond memories of garfield eating jon & odie in a dream sequence but dunno how it holds up today.
hi-concept one where garfield literally kicks odie into next week.

Also humongous 500lb ogreish year-one garfield visually hilarious by itself.

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(well I think it's funny...)

I remember being like 8 years old and laughing my head off at that exact strip (in a book)

i love this thread

your stupid random garfield strips can go fly a kite this is the real noise, man

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Hmmm, so what was the artist really saying here

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I'm not sure if this is Jim Davis releasing 30 years of pent-up self loathing or Jim Davis's ghostwriter outing himself as a sleeper agent for the anti-Garfield cabal, but I like it.

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Oh my god.

lolwut

haw

unreg, just stumbled across your dodgy shag story of a profile, top work

lol @ the one pplains posted

ha, thanks (xpost). I'm not sure what impulse led me to research the dimensions of cormorants in the fall of 2013, but there must have been a reason for it. ilx profiles are a sorely underappreciated art, but I saw a really good one the other day (just wish I could remember whose)

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really just the last panel and that cronenbergian jug thing

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^^ Pretty good "Garfield Speech Balloons Removed" strip on its own!

Garfield is actually terrified because Jon has taken to filling the creamer with dog cum.

I remember reading the cum drinking strip as a child and being confused

I'd be way more concerned if a child wasn't confused by that strip.

I'm pretty sure I got it. Why wouldn't a kid know about semen?

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this is a surprisingly good thread, ilx should be put in charge of editing a one-volume "all the funny garfield strips" edition.

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i knew i shouldn't have clicked

The good news is that you can see my images.

wtf no lasagna *smashes cup*

I'm pretty sure I got it. Why wouldn't a kid know about semen?

― Frederik B, Friday, 29 May 2015 14:49 (one year ago)

typical scando-ilx

Why is an anthropomorphic cow slapping Jon? Why is the punchline revolving around the fact that he burned the patties? Shouldn’t the cow be mad about him eating cows in general? Why isn’t Jon terrified at the sight of this monstrosity? Why does this comic exist? pic.twitter.com/SwFFYn1sm0

— Garf Gab (@GarfieldFanArt) September 28, 2018

they're much better when acted out

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how did the mouse get a mouse-sized phone tho

Just a reminder that Mike Pence has an office full of Garfield memorabilia, including signed posters pic.twitter.com/Hxnc617rB0

— MrKireko (@MrKireko) February 5, 2019

woah

v on-brand for noted weird mutant mike pence

Full disclosure: I also have a framed sketch of Garfield addressing me by name. I think this might just be a Hoosier thing. But also I was ten at the time, so

just one of the many uncanny parallels between you and mike pence iirc

I swear to god if you make one more crack about my stark white dummy hair

great now i'm gonna hear "showroom dummies" as that for the rest of my life

noooooo

Jim Davis is a native of Indianapolis.

It's no excuse, but it does provide context.

Boy there's a big difference between "Factory Garfield" and "Jim Davis Garfield"

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Never noticed that his ears connect directly above where his eyes squeeze together.

What a freak. Put him down.

Not Indianapolis per se but not too far. He lives within almost literal spitting distance of my family homestead so it wasn't uncommon to just like see him disheveled and shopping at the mall or something, presumably while his staff was hard at work on the latest Garfield strip.

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Hate to say it, but if your capital city and largest city also contains the state's name, everyone's just going to think of the two as one and the same.

Unless there's a cool city up the way like Tulsa.

still not sure whats going on here

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Jon is so racist he can't stop feeling disgusted by Asians even hours later.

Really though, there's such established cartoon tropes to signify someone has eaten something too hot (face turning red, smoke coming out of the mouth/ears, etc) that it's really mystifying whoever drew that didn't just use them.

I never realized one loses their hair when they eat spicy food.