Garfield Is Dead

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The one where Garfield is about to maul Grandma is etched in my mind forever and I remember checking the credits, seeing that it was written by Jim Davis, and thinking that was incredibly fucked up even as a child. I had no use for the noir detective story because I was too dumb for words without pictures. Does anyone remember how the last story ends? In general I think I was just not ready to seriously consider Garfield's mortality at that age.

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

here kitty kitty

― Adrienne Begley (sparklecock), Monday, 7 August 2006 08:24 (seventeen years ago) link

I have that book.

I have no idea how I supressed the memories of it.

Watchmen and DKR have so much to answer for.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:13 (seventeen years ago) link

This is seriously the best thing ever. I knew there was a reason that I used to like "Garfield"; I just couldn't remember what it was.

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 August 2006 12:51 (seventeen years ago) link

I wish I could read comics from an alternate universe where this Dark Existential Garfield was a big hit and kept going on forever.

― Matthew Perpetua! (Matthew Perpetua!), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:40 (seventeen years ago) link

And there'd be a semi-obscure "Nine Lives Of Garfield" book where he likes lasagna and sleeping, and alternate-ILC would be all WTF about it.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 7 August 2006 13:56 (seventeen years ago) link

haha

― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Monday, 7 August 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link

this is sad there is no ha :(

― chaki (chaki), Monday, 7 August 2006 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

i had the book with this in it when i was a kid! creepiest saddest thing ever.

and there was a cartoon based on that nine lives book!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 06:42 (seventeen years ago) link

this thread is fucking with my soul

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:24 (seventeen years ago) link

i've never heard of any of this stuff

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:26 (seventeen years ago) link

the only thing freakier to me would be to learn that the meat in Jon's lasagna was al these years made from the flesh of Garfield's littermates from when he was a kitten

― you have no idea how alone you are, latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:36 (seventeen years ago) link

and there was a cartoon based on that nine lives book!

Yeah, didn't have the creepier ones tho if I remember. I gotta say, I quite liked the "Garfield" cartoon when I was a kid; started reading the comic strips (in magazine format) only leading off from there. Last time I checked out the comic strips they truly were as vile and useless as everyone says they are, but the cartoon...not gonna say it holds up, it's pretty crap, but at least lots of shit *happens*.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:40 (seventeen years ago) link

no way was the garfield cartoon crap, it was BRILLIANT, largely due to every episode being written by mark evanier (sergio aragones' co-writer on groo). just thinking about the episode where garfield wakes up in the wrong cartoon (a straight-faced transformers parody) and spends the whole episode acting as if nothing's wrong cracks me up.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:57 (seventeen years ago) link

i just mean the saturday morning one, btw, not the halloween and christmas specials and the one where they go camping or whatever. those were ok i guess, but the regular cartoon had a completely different flavor to it and i don't even really associate it with the comic strip.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 09:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the cartoon was great, i remember it being a lot of fun and....binky the clown!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 10:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Jim Davis is a tool. When I was nine there was this big charity golf tournament featuring famous comic strip artists in Sarasota, Florida, my hometown at the time. I went and got sketches and autographs from tons of folks (including a dude who I thought was Hal Foster, who looked like death, which would've made sense, as Foster had been dead for four years at that point; the guy in question was actually John Cullen Murphy). All of them were amazingly nice and gracious and truly magnanimous etc etc, EXCEPT for Davis, who refused to draw Orson from US Acres as requested, and instead quickly crapped out an almost unrecognizable Garfield doodle. He then peeled out in his golf cart, splattering me and my dad with mud, and completely ruining the near priceless photograph of Stan Lee and I playing touch football with each other. That didn't happen, but the rest of this overlong paragraph is complete Truth.

Sarasota was home to comics people. Cathy, Dik Browne, the dude who did Cap'n Vincible: what a legacy.

― barefoot manthing (Garrett Martin), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 12:28 (seventeen years ago) link

us acres was teh funney when i was little

― chaki (chaki), Tuesday, 8 August 2006 17:05 (seventeen years ago) link

The cartoon has its moments, but when was the last time any of you saw it? I watched it semi-regularly in 2003/2004 for nostalgic reasons, and there's something really swarmy and lazy about it - especially the endless resorting to meta and fourth-wall breaking.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 09:55 (seventeen years ago) link

Didn't Jim Davis stop doing the strip (many) years ago and he spends his days doing "artistic" oil paintings of Garfield or somesuch? A friend claimed to have seen the store where these are sold for thousands, completely ridiculous.

― mike h. (mike h.), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 14:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Was yesterday's ILX stoppage some transition to this alterna-ILC??

― c('°c) (Leee), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Nermal was punching the universe.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 15:19 (seventeen years ago) link

More like Odie licked it amirite?

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 9 August 2006 16:03 (seventeen years ago) link

five months pass...

http://joedanger.us/garfield.html

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 14 January 2007 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link

HOORAY!

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/1600/interpretivedancecu1.jpg

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:42 (seventeen years ago) link

How did you save that, Austin??

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 15 January 2007 12:58 (seventeen years ago) link

print screen button, then control v in photoshop.

― Candy: tastes like chicken, if chicken was a candy. (Austin, Still), Monday, 15 January 2007 14:03 (seventeen years ago) link

one year passes...

Garfield Minus Garfield

― Dr. Superman, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link

That's such an atsronomical improvement. In fact I laughed non-stop while reading those.

― chap, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link

What a colossal improvement! Really funny. Thanks.

― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 26 February 2008 21:31 (sixteen years ago) link

I think just removing Garfield's speech bubbles was a better idea. Jon as a sad, lonely man talking to his cat was somehow funnier than Jon as a sad, lonely man talking to the thin air.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 07:44 (sixteen years ago) link

-- Dr. Superman, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:33 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Link

-- chap, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:45 AM (14 hours ago) Bookmark Link

-- EZ Snappin, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 1:31 PM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Link

I think just removing Garfield's speech bubbles was a better idea. Jon as a sad, lonely man talking to his cat was somehow funnier than Jon as a sad, lonely man talking to the thin air.

-- Tuomas, Tuesday, February 26, 2008 11:44 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

― Kerm, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link

suppose this oughtta go in that other thread, but what the hell

http://i274.photobucket.com/albums/jj242/donaldparsley/GarfieldRandom01.png

― contenderizer, Wednesday, 27 February 2008 20:05 (sixteen years ago) link

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