The death of Garfield?
Created on: August 2nd, 2006
An examination of a really f*cked up series of Garfield cartoons from 1989. These are 100% legit.
EDIT: ok, thanks to everyone confirming the veracity of these strips.
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I think it's pretty ridiculous to say he's dead, obviously he just has some epiphany about life within the comic, and outside of it, Jim Davis just wanted to try something new and experiment, all cartoonists do it. The 5 is for good presentation and the fact that I remember reading these in book form back in the day.
I remember seeing an old National Lampoon Magazine from the 80's I think.
It spoke of the death of Garfield, and the article was several pages long.(
I had no idea there was an actual Death in the comic stip, I figured this
was a joke, but now I guess it was refering to this contoversy, and the
"Back to normal" cover up that followed. The artwork looked authentic, but
it showed Garfield being ripped to shreds by an invisible force, which was
the Cheshire Cat. If anyone could find it, it'd be YTMND G
The comic can work either way. If you're negative minded you think he died, if you're positive he's alive. I think he's dead, and that when he first found the house he saw that picture he was holding and though how it would be to live with them, then he got too in depth with it. Then one day (this comic) he finally woke up and saw he was in an empty house, with only picture of jon&otie w/o garfield, therefore he was correct when he said he didn't exist.
1'd for claiming nobody likes garfield. garfield is the greatest cartoon ever created (well, it was, jim davis is running out of ideas now). furthermore, don't believe anything you read on wikipedia. the strips are real but jim davis isn't that morbid. He's not gonna make garfield starve to death. Maybe you should ask HIM instead of relying on the internet for info.
"Davis is just one of the growing number of
nutjobs who think that reality is all a figment of our imaginations." It's called solipsism, it's philosophically unsound, it's been around for over 200 years at least and now it's only just beginning to spread thanks to the internet and recreational drug use.
"Philosophically unsound", eh? Whatever. It's just impossible to prove.
Theory: if you read any of what Bill Watterson has written about his struggle with the syndicate, you'll understand how sh*tty cartoonists have it. Maybe this was his small way of saying "my work has been raped by the syn. and my heart is no longer in this". Just a theory.
Garfield still sucked before that though, so who knows.
Most people have covered all there is to say about this strip. But i will agree with all who say that if your read the strips from the 80s and early 90s, they were 100x better the the crap now. I also saw ppl mention the 9-lives series. That was a great series of strips that would explain why this one wasn't such a big deal for John Davis
For it to be a dream, Garfield should've changed his ways. He is still the arrogant and stubborn cat he's been ever since the day he was first illustrated. It couldn't be a dream, because it should have changed his perspective on his live and what he has. Which it didn't. There would still be moral if he learned from his mistakes.
Whether or not Jim Davis intends Garfield to be dead is irrelevant: his only existance is in the comic and if his dream is how he's living, then it still remains his singular reality in this universe. So ha. Either way he's just a character. Plot lines aren't even usually overlapping: ever see Garfield's 9 lives?
Davis himself comments vaguely on the controversial series in Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection in which the strips are reprinted. His caption, in its entirety states
"During a writing session for Halloween week, I got the idea for this decidedly different series of strips. I wanted to scare people. And what do people fear most? Why, being alone. We carried out the concept to its logical conclusion and got a lot of responses from readers. Reaction ranged from 'Right on!' to 'This isn't a tr
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