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[zai]

When I was growing up, I admit, I had an obsession with Garfield. But as soon as I discovered Calvin & Hobbes and other comics, I found Garfield quite....boring. Then I realized that Jim Davis was just milking it, that made me lose respect for Garfield that much more.

Here's an essay that sums it up nicely:

http://wondermark.com/tcsd/stripdoc_5.html

But thanks to slashdot, I came across experiments, that have put my faith back into Garfield. Albeit that these experiments are a couple years old, they're still bloody great.
here is an article on recontextualization:

http://wondermark.com/tcsd/stripdoc_12.html

Now if you don't want to read the essays, here are links to different experiments.

The first is removing all of Garfield's thought bubbles from his panels. What you get is a minimal and very surreal comic. And more funny but also more depressing. The Irony is that this surrealism comes from making Garfield a real cat, one who can't speak.

Examples:





here is the link to the thread with a bunch more:

http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

There is also the randomizer, where in theory that you can take any random panel from Garfield and juxtapose them and it would somehow make sense (in a bizarro type of way).

http://www.dougshaw.com/garfield.html

Heres one with replacing the captions on the comic "Family Circus", more crude, but really funny.

http://www.theotherfamily.com/view.php?g=1

enjoy!

[normalcyispasse]

It's even better when you remove Garfield entirely:



















(apparently the host of Garfield minus Garfield, divisiontwo.com, is down)

[VanIslander]

I grew up on Garfield, bought every collection, read the newspaper funny pages daily for it:

[Young FRANKenstein]

[BreakfastInBed]

This stuff is great! Reminds me a little of some of Tony Millionaire's Maakies strips.

[tzechuk]

I love Garfield. I have a comic strip sent to my email box everyday!!

[crash bang]

the family circus ones were hilarious. WRONG, but hilarious

[RACETRAITOR]

Here's something that's strangely addictive. Actual Garfield comic strips acted out by people.

http://www.lasagnacat.com/