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Title: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Morfiend on February 26, 2008, 04:59:08 PM
This is really fantastic. Such a good idea.

Garfield Minus Garfield (http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/)

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Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?
Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb.

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5s730dh6Ge4nnNX_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5v5is1v1viuKME7_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5k3l0sxouBVSPa8_500.gif)


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Prospero on February 26, 2008, 06:08:04 PM
Those are better in every way possible.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Fabricated on February 27, 2008, 03:28:46 AM
http://youtube.com/user/lasagnacat


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: UD_Delt on February 27, 2008, 05:22:21 AM
That is pure genius.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Sky on February 27, 2008, 06:56:21 AM
(http://icanhascheezburger.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/funny-pictures-cat-scratches-post.jpg)


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Yegolev on February 27, 2008, 07:15:11 AM
Oh, God, finally Jim Davis makes me laugh.  Unintentionally, of course.  I give this site thirteen thumbs-up.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Grand Design on February 27, 2008, 09:06:02 AM
That almost makes up for the Garfield movie, which I was compelled to see for some reason.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: schild on February 27, 2008, 09:18:31 AM
That almost makes up for the Garfield movie, which I was compelled to see for some reason.

JLH's tits can do that.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Lakov_Sanite on February 27, 2008, 09:24:11 AM
(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5w524coc3lyjqvQ_500.gif)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5ttxg5oPNliU3dF_500.jpg)

are my favorite ones. truly a gem of a concept.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: schild on February 27, 2008, 09:29:55 AM
Yea, that second one had me rolling.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Yegolev on February 27, 2008, 09:31:54 AM
I might get an avatar out of this.  I wasn't satisfied with my first attempt of the day.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Sauced on February 27, 2008, 09:43:40 AM
About a year ago the meme was "garfield minus garfield's ability to talk" which I thought were a little funnier.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: voodoolily on February 27, 2008, 09:53:14 AM
http://youtube.com/user/lasagnacat

My favorites are the Final Fantasy one and the Magical Cheeseburger.

"Uncle Jesse"


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Fabricated on February 27, 2008, 03:04:53 PM
Also not that it matters but I knew about Lasangnacat long before Penny Arcade noticed it. Hurr.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: voodoolily on February 27, 2008, 03:20:07 PM
Not that it matters but I don't read Penny Arcade.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: lamaros on February 27, 2008, 03:49:41 PM
This is all testament to the inherent comedy in Davis' art! (and insipidity of his words)


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Grand Design on February 27, 2008, 04:33:24 PM
These remind me of the Far Side cartoons where the captions were unintentionally swapped with the Dennis The Menace captions for a much funnier effect. 

I'd scan and upload them but Gary Larson would crucify me.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: schild on February 27, 2008, 04:33:57 PM
These remind me of the Far Side cartoons where the captions were unintentionally swapped with the Dennis The Menace captions for a much funnier effect. 

I'd scan and upload them but Gary Larson would crucify me.

Those were hilarious. Aren't they in Prehistory of the Farside?


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Grand Design on February 27, 2008, 04:36:51 PM
Yes!  My copy of Prehistory is worn to shreds from overuse.

The caption is something like, "Oh, Mom - Hamsters again?" while Dennis is eating his sandwich.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: schild on February 27, 2008, 04:37:35 PM
Yes!  My copy of Prehistory is worn to shreds from overuse.

The caption is something like, "Oh, Mom - Hamsters again?" while Dennis is eating his sandwich.

Yep. Mine is fairly wrecked. Probably the single best compendium of comics ever put into book form.

Fuck, Far Side still makes everyone else look like amateurs. Shame.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Grand Design on February 27, 2008, 04:41:52 PM
The comics pages are useless without them.

Larson seriously needs to unretire and do something.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Triforcer on February 27, 2008, 06:03:44 PM
Bill Watterson needs to unretire, stat.  I stopped regularly reading the funnies when he signed off.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Grand Design on February 27, 2008, 06:08:52 PM
Calvin and Hobbes was definitely in the same stratosphere.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Merusk on February 27, 2008, 06:23:55 PM
Bill Watterson needs to unretire, stat.  I stopped regularly reading the funnies when he signed off.

Someone tracked him down and did an interview a few years ago.  He's painting now and enjoying himself much more than he ever did drawing cartoons.  If you've ever read the comments in his Treasury or other collections, you being to realize how much he hated doing a daily strip and just how fucked-up the whole process is.

  And since he was never in it just for the money no amount you could thow at him would make him come back.  (In fact, he despises licensing and sees it as cheapening the work. Every time you buy a Calvin and/ or Hobbes sticker, shirt, whatever it's a pirated image. Watterson sees nothing from that.)


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Llava on February 28, 2008, 12:05:17 AM
Wait, he didn't sign off on Calvin pissing on the Islamic crescent and star?!


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: schild on February 28, 2008, 12:06:18 AM
Wait, he didn't sign off on Calvin pissing on the Islamic crescent and star?!

Ok. That one he might have.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Sky on February 28, 2008, 06:16:12 AM
You think YOUR paper's comics page is bad? We have a local guy on staff. He has a daily and is supposed to do politicals. He ranges from boring to "WTF IS THIS GUY ON STAFF FOR". Basically it's his blog about dating. The few months after his girlfriend left him (probably for being featured in a fucking comic strip every day, or for the two-month Rachel Ray obsession) as he worked quite publicly through his depression were the worst. But at least he stopped doing politicals during that period so those were funny again.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Ookii on February 28, 2008, 08:18:16 AM
This is awesome:

Japanese students learning english caption Penny Arcade Comcis (http://yukihime.com/comics/paremix/?).

EDIT: Apparently this might be three years old, funny for people who haven't seen it yet though.

(http://img520.imageshack.us/img520/209/weatherig1.jpg)


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Ookii on February 28, 2008, 08:19:20 AM
(http://yukihime.com/comics/paremix/jesus/rainbow.jpg)


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: schild on February 28, 2008, 08:30:31 AM
Yea, that came out a hella long time ago.

It's also over 9,000x more funny than PA itself.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: SnakeCharmer on February 28, 2008, 08:46:52 AM
Awesome.

I really miss the Far Side. 

Anyone else a Mother Goose and Grimm fan?


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Abagadro on February 28, 2008, 02:52:51 PM
The only daily comic I read any more is Get Fuzzy.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Morfiend on February 28, 2008, 02:58:05 PM
The only daily comic I read any more is Get Fuzzy.

Same.

Although its starting to drift in a Gafrielld direction.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: cmlancas on February 29, 2008, 02:44:13 PM
Non webcomics I think are a good laugh:

Far Side, Get Fuzzy, sometimes Non Sequitur. If I want to overdose myself with sarcasm, Sally Forth really isn't too bad.

Moderately funny sometimes:

Mother Goose and Grimm, Shoe, LuAnn, Boondocks.

I might be missing a few; I drive home on my breaks at work to check forums as opposed to reading the newspaper. Something about actual news (OMG DAVID SKLANSKY LULZ!) instead of random_blonde_teenager_01 was found raped and murdered. Sorry.


Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Llava on February 29, 2008, 08:10:11 PM
(http://yukihime.com/comics/paremix/mail/nancy.jpg)


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