The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

vinceguidry wrote: post #4

scrollaway wrote: post #3

I'm surprised Silent Garfield wasn't mentioned: http://www.silentgarfield.com/

Weird, Garfield minus Garfield has the same premise, and was mentioned. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ Wonder which came first?

At least in Silent Garfield Jon is talking to something instead of nothing which leads to hilarious and depressing scenarios.

Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

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Post by Natsu » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 5:15 PM UTC

webkike wrote: post #5

scrollaway wrote: post #3

I'm surprised Silent Garfield wasn't mentioned: http://www.silentgarfield.com/

My favorite, very similar in premise, is realfield: https://www.tumblr.com/search/realfield

I dunno, I'm laughing at the random generator more than the real strip. For example:

http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/?panel0=1988880216&panel1=199...

http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/?panel0=1983830415&panel1=198...

http://www.bgreco.net/garfield/?panel0=1994941217&panel1=200...

Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

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Post by onetwotree » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

And of course, the XKCD: https://xkcd.com/78/

Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

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Post by dri_ft » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 5:18 PM UTC

vinceguidry wrote: post #4

scrollaway wrote: post #3

I'm surprised Silent Garfield wasn't mentioned: http://www.silentgarfield.com/

Weird, Garfield minus Garfield has the same premise, and was mentioned. http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ Wonder which came first?

Silent Garfield was invented first, on a forum called Truth and Beauty Bombs, which was the fan forum of a webcomic called Dinosaur Comics, though the discussion thereon tended to be only tangentially connected to Dinosaur Comics.

The thread in which it was invented became a big deal and "went viral". I think Garfield Minus Garfield was also invented later on in the same thread, as well as some other variants. But Silent Garfield is funnier and has a better rationale than Garfield Minus Garfield, so it's always to my chagrin that Garfield Minus Garfield is better-known. (That "better rationale" being the fact that in the original, Garfield's "speech" is always shown in thought bubbles, so removing those thought bubbles should theoretically how the strip's events would appear to an outside observer/Jon/anyone without access to Garfield's internal monologue.)

Source: I was there. The PhpBB for the old forum seems to be busted, and I don't think the thread is accessible any more.

Re: The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

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Post by protomyth » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 5:21 PM UTC

What's with the starting diss of Charles Schulz?