Wednesday, December 8, 2010

Garfield or not

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Similar to DJ music, “Garfield Minus Garfield” takes existing art and bends it to make a something entirely fresh.  Just read the site’s purpose:

Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

This is the original strip of the above sans Garfield strip:ga960201

What a brilliant idea.  I read Garfield in fourth grade and don’t remember rolling on the floor laughing or anything.  I was amused by Garfield and Odie. Imagine a fourth grade girl kind of chuckling while flipping through Garfield books.  The top strip is far funnier than with the cat.  Sort of a Fight Club concept – you can think back to all the Garfield strips you ever read and imagine that Garfield was just a figment of Jon’s imagination.

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