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Cenedril_Gildinaur
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Posted: Mon 11 Aug , 2008 6:51 pm
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Take the comic strip Garfield.

Erase Garfield from it.

Now it is transformed into a disturbing analysis of a man with schizophrenia.

Garfield Minus Garfield

It's creepy AND funny.

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yovargas
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Posted: Mon 11 Aug , 2008 9:18 pm
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Cenedril_Gildinaur wrote:
It's creepy AND funny.
You forgot sad and surreal.
Oh man, I love it!


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Dave_LF
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I've seen other ones where they remove Garfield's thought bubbles but leave him in place. Both types are pretty darn funny.

Edit: Lots of examples:
http://www.shapelessmass.com/junk/garfield_no_dialogue/


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It is also coming out as a book, approved by Jim Davis:
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Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield

Collection to be published simultaneously with Garfield 30th anniversary book

NEW YORK, NY – July 30, 2008 – Paws, Inc. and Ballantine Books, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, announced last week at Comic-Con International that Ballantine will publish a book inspired by the popular webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield.


Garfield Minus Garfield (www.garfieldminusgarfield.net) made its online debut in February 2008 and quickly became an online sensation based on a simple premise: What would Jim Davis’ Garfield comic strip be like without its lasagna-loving fat cat? Without the presence of Garfield and other characters such as Odie the dog and Nermal the kitten, the strips “create a new, even lonelier atmosphere for Jon Arbuckle…Jon’s observations seem to teeter between existential crisis and deep despair.” (New York Times)

The full-color book format will give readers the experience of having both the original and doctored Garfield strips together on the same page for comparison. Dublin, Ireland-based Garfield Minus Garfield creator Dan Walsh will provide the foreword to the book.

Garfield creator Jim Davis was intrigued by—and pleased with—the concept. “I think it’s an inspired thing to do,” Davis said. “I want to thank Dan for enabling me to see another side of Garfield. Some of the strips he chose were slappers: ‘Oh, I could have left that out.’ It would have been funnier.”

Garfield Minus Garfield site creator Dan Walsh says, “When I looked at Jon and laughed at his crazy antics I thought ‘He’s just like me.’ As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one saw myself in him: millions of visitors from all over the world visit Garfield Minus Garfield and tell me they think the same thing. Now, thanks to the awesome generosity and humor of Jim Davis, Garfield Minus Garfield is going to become a book and I’m absolutely honored to be part of it.”

Ballantine Books has been publishing Garfield books since 1980, and thirty-three Garfield titles have made the New York Times bestseller list. Thirty Years of Laughs and Lasagna: The Life and Times of a Fat, Furry Legend, will be published by Ballantine Books in October 2008. This hardcover anniversary collection will include a foreword from Dean Young, Blondie cartoonist, and exclusive content from Jim Davis.
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I found this site months ago through UserFriendly (webcomic, lol) and I love it so much.

It's genius. And I'll probably buy the book someday.

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They're both very funny, although I'm probably a little more amused by Jon simply talking to his cat rather than talking to thin air - provides a reference point, and allows for the possibility that Jon is lonely and eccentric rather than outright insane.

And also for comics fans, one of my favourite blogs: http://joshreads.com/

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Dave_LF
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This may be my favorite:

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I found Garfield Minus Garfield months ago and it is one of my favorite webcomics. I like the other one as well, but I love the darkness of GmG.

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