The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

Post by qwertyuiop924 » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:30 PM UTC

dri_ft wrote: post #9

vinceguidry wrote: post #4

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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 Si…

Post by draw_down » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:33 PM UTC

Bromskloss wrote: post #34

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It's still being written because Jim Davis's chief motivation in starting Garfield was to do something about the struggling economy in his home town of Muncie, Indiana. The strip's mediocrity is a secure source of income for two dozen people in a struggling town, and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera.

> and thus also a source of income for everyone who pumps their gas, buses their diner tables et cetera. I'm not sure, and I have other things to think about right now, but this smells of a broken-window fallacy.

Post by davidw » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 8:50 PM UTC

Uhhrrr wrote: post #50

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I liked Calvin and Hobbes a lot, but it all depends on one's tastes; I make no claim that any of them are objectively 'good' or 'bad'. I do think C&H seems to have a lot more effort and thought behind it than Garfield or many of the Peanuts strips.

Calvin and Hobbes's creator really liked Schulz's work: http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB119214690326956694

Post by dingaling » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 9:58 PM UTC

sevensor wrote: post #56

davidw wrote: post #14

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Some people (myself included) find Peanuts insufferably boring and not all that funny.

I agree that Peanuts isn't funny, but it's darker than it looks. If happiness is a warm puppy in the Peanuts-verse, it's because people are often cruel and hateful, and life is full of endless disappointment. Just like Garfield, really, in that it's supposedly light fare that's deeply melancholic under the surface.

Post by caf » Tue, Jul 12, 2016, 10:44 PM UTC