The mirthful stripGarfieldhas endured since 1978 , when Jim Davis invented the lovable triplet of Garfield , Odie , and their proprietor Jon Arbuckle . As a seven - year - older kid , I was a big fan – Garfield loved lasagna , and so did I. Odie ( the dumb firedog ) was Garfield ’s nemesis , so I settle that Canis familiaris were mute . Garfield hate Mondays and dieting … you get the approximation .
Garfieldas a comic flight strip succeeds in the main because it ’s so accessible and bite - sized , featuring a predictable three - panel format . This accessibility has made the cartoon bland , leading originative cartoonist to remixGarfieldinto Modern strips , often reusing art , dialogue , and other component part of the archetype . While the remixes are of questionable legality ( many are arguably parodies , others maybe not ) , they are consistently funny and weird . Because the humor primarily involves bleak insaneness , absurdism , and the absence of Garfield as a meaningful companion , comparison to the body of work ofBeckettcome up a slew .
The primary fact that ’s central to most of these substitute reading ofGarfieldis that , in the actual comedian , Jon ca n’t learn Garfield ’s thoughts . By shifting the linear perspective by from Garfield ’s inner liveliness , Jon ’s life comes into sharp relievo : he ’s an stranded man whose home spirit with his pet is , at undecomposed , perturbing . Enjoy !
1. Realfield
Garfield has been replaced with a regular orange tabby , minus opine bubbles . The land site is in Spanish , but an car - interlingual rendition does a secure problem of explaining the result :
( MoreRealfield . )
2. De-Garfed
Garfield ’s thought bubble have been removed , but nothing else exchange . Jon ’s paranoia is unveil .
( MoreDe - Garfed . )
3. Garfield Minus Garfield
Garfield has been removed completely . Jon is alone with his madness , andthere ’s a whole book of this(listing Jim Davis as the author , though these slip are base on work by Dan Walsh … which are ground on work by Jim Davis ) .
( MoreGarfield Minus Garfield . )
4. The Garfield Randomizer
What if you randomly recombinedGarfieldpanels to make a new comic ? Would it still be funny ? You be the judge .
( MoreGarfield Randomizer . A standardised , but non - customizable , site is theGarfield Generator . )
5. Garkov
What happen when you extractall the textfrom theGarfieldstrips , put it in a database , then extract and flux it using a math / logical system unconscious process called aMarkov range of mountains ? Garkov !
( MoreGarkov . )
6. Barfield
In which Garfield has some intestinal issues . ( Note : it gets jolly vulgar . )
( MoreBarfield . )
7. Lasagna Cat
Deeply weird video , some imply bouncy action , recreating originalGarfieldstrips . Here ’s one ( there are dozens ) , bearing the verbal description " Garfield is caught trying to harm Odie with a pearl " :
( MoreLasagna Caton YouTube ; see alsoLasagnaCat.com . )
More Alternate-Universe Garfield Stuff
Check outArbuckle , a community project in which artists re - draw the strip , minus Garfield ’s thought bubbles , but retaining Jon ’s duologue . Also , do n’t missThe Death of Garfield , a accumulation of strip show in which Garfield assumes his " death pose " and his thought bubble are remove , grow the possibility that Garfield is indeed utter . Nothing Garfieldis similar – a assembling of emended strips in which most of the text has been removed , typically get out us with a very odd impression of Garfield and Jon . at long last , Garfield Variationsfeatures ( mostly charming , sometimes NSFW ) re - drawn edition of Garfield in new setting .
