The World of Subversive Garfield Spinoffs

Post by girvo » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 4:03 AM UTC

dmd wrote: post #40

Why even bother, when Jim Davis himself is already as existential-despair as you can get? http://youtu.be/mMz-2oUDSas

Post by smcl » Wed, Jul 13, 2016, 8:09 AM UTC

drzaiusapelord wrote: post #37

ocschwar wrote: post #27

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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.

Its a town of 100,000+ people with a 6% unemployment rate and a $40,000 gdp per capita. While certainly those extra jobs are nice and that economy is nothing to brag about, I doubt they're making some economy changing effect you seem to be suggesting they are. For comparison, blacks on Chicago's south side have a 25% unemployment rate and a median income sometimes far below average. A south side neighborhood called A…

Post by phjesusthatguy3 » Thu, Jul 14, 2016, 7:23 PM UTC

neekered wrote: post #75

phjesusthatguy3 wrote: post #65

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I ran across The Dilbert Hole strips embedded in some guy's weird webcomic where he took photographs of Plasticine animal characters and pasted them over photographs of the real world. I can't think of the name of the strip, the only title I remember is "Winter Pageant". At one point the Dilbert strips got replaced with redrawings of them (probably when SA "didn't take too kindly to it") and then I totally forgot abo…

That sounds similar to leisure town http://www.leisuretown.com