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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lets all listen to wikipedia... because its accurate. jim davis was simply making a series of comics about the imagination: something he uses every day. all he did was make something different... he is an artist. garfield isn't dead. garfield is a damn cartoon character. you people scare me sometimes.
Mystery solved, straight from the horse's mouth: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/09/death_of_garfield_my.html Quote: "Garfield is NOT dead, nor is he starving to death (Jim actually laughed loudly when I suggested these theories). It was simply a week before Halloween and Jim wanted to do something legitimately scary, as opposed to Halloween-scary."
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You guys need to check out the old Garfield book entitled Garfield's Nine Lives. Basically, it's these nine stories about about Garfield in various situations with various artworks. Very cool stuff. There was one really freaky story, though, where this more realistic-looking garfield gets attacked by these cat demon things, which makes garfield go mad and he attacks some old lady. Freaky stuff.
It all depends on your point of view. You can believe that Garfield is not dead, and that this was all just a nightmare. Otherwise, you can believe that he is living the rest of his life in the abandoned house, denying that he is alone by using his imagination, while he is actually starving to death. So yeah, you be the judge.
YTMND is hopeless with all the comments left behind in all the newer ytmnds. Anyway, this is sad, but I chopped a point out because you said "nobody likes Garfield", Garfield was cool back then but...all comics suck today. As for music problems, the song is ok, actually a little boring, but it fits the site...you just can put overused Simple Plan and Hulk Theme here. As MasterSitsu said, use original music when you can.
The strips have caused many fans to speculate that Garfield is currently starving
in an abandoned house and all of the series occurring after the comics in question
were insane hallucinations by the cat as he tries to keep alive, yet author Jim Davis
is reported to have actually "laughed loudly" when confronted with this.
In Garfield's 20th Anniversary Collection, Jim Davis discusses this.
His caption,"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 and got a lot of responses from readers."
Source: Wikipedia, after your screenshot.
Just put the whole thing in there, attention ***.
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The wikipedia mentions these strips, and it is different than the screenshot shown in the YTMND. It has a quote by Jim Davis saying: "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." Wikipedia also says that Jim Davis laughed when he heard people thinking that this meant Garfield is actually dead. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
This sent chills down my spine!
And these are very real. www.garfield.com
And... you picked the PERFECT song. I'd have to say people didn't like the song only because it made the comics sink in more, and make it more disturbing. Come on.. "Walking into sweet oblivion.." as Garfield opens the door in the first strip.
Thought process:
"Sees the top 10 YTMNDS" Garfield's Dead? Garfield's DEAD? *laughs* this should be good
*clicks, muttering Garfield's Dead and laughing.*
"What you are about to see" Oh man this should be good
"Are strips that ran" OH NO IT'S THE SAME SH*TTY YTMND FROM A YEAR AGO!!!
F*ck you chrisflyer and your humorless YTMND drivel. GTFO.
Good site. I actually own the Garfield 20th anniversary book which is basically a big collection of the comics from 1978 - 1998. Jim Davis (Garfield's creator) made a side note on this particular set of strips saying that he made them for something close to Halloween. He wanted to incorporate a fear that most people have into the normally light hearted strip. The fear was being alone. So, Garfield never died nor has he ever. It was just Jim Davis doing something different with his successful strip.
This doesn't mean he's dead RTard. The story is based on a cat (Garfield) who selfishly walks through life, only caring about lasagna and his own personal needs. He doesn't pay much attention to Jon, and pushed Odie aside. In this strip he has a dream... Showing him what his life would be like if Odie or Jon didn't exist. It teaches the moral lesson to him (and us) to care about the ones who love us.
First of all: LOL, Wiki. You take it seriously?? Oh god... Second: This does look depressing... maybe Jim Davis was having a hard time... but I don't think he was dead. It was just a nightmare. You cannot kill an innocent cartoon character like this anyway. I don't have space to explain it but... Use your logic.
How sad that this got so many views. It was a f*cking dream. Jim Davis did one or two more of these. It's called an "epiphany." I know it's a hard concept to grasp when you're stirring up useless facts about a comic strip because your life of eating dill pickles and stale cheese has taken it's toll, but try anyway.
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