I was first exposed to this beautiful phenomenon in a different form -- in February of 2006, the Truth and Beauty Bombs forum had a thread wherein people removed not Garfield, but all of his dialogue.
The result was somewhat less starkly existential, but had me busting a gut anyway.
I think I like Minus Garfield better, though. It's more poignant, more desperate, but still funny. And it's great to hear that Jim Davis likes it. :D
It's awesome that Jim Davis likes it. It makes me wonder what he thinks of his own strip, really-truly (I wonder the same thing about whoever draws Cathy and Family Circus). Is this like a children's book kinda thing to them? As in, "Clearly this isn't something that *I* enjoy, but *somebody* does and I make a pretty decent living doing it." Or is the person who draws Cathy really like that in real life, and just putting her real experiences down on paper?
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I was first exposed to this beautiful phenomenon in a different form -- in February of 2006, the Truth and Beauty Bombs forum had a thread wherein people removed not Garfield, but all of his dialogue.
The result was somewhat less starkly existential, but had me busting a gut anyway.
I think I like Minus Garfield better, though. It's more poignant, more desperate, but still funny. And it's great to hear that Jim Davis likes it. :D
It's awesome that Jim Davis likes it. It makes me wonder what he thinks of his own strip, really-truly (I wonder the same thing about whoever draws Cathy and Family Circus). Is this like a children's book kinda thing to them? As in, "Clearly this isn't something that *I* enjoy, but *somebody* does and I make a pretty decent living doing it." Or is the person who draws Cathy really like that in real life, and just putting her real experiences down on paper?
Awesome. Crisis comics.
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