Jim Davis is probably ready to unleash the legal hounds on this one, but Garfield Minus Garfield is an utterly brilliant deconstructive blog treatment of Garfield in which his owner, Jon Arbuckle, seems to be bordering on Red Meat-like psychosis. Be reduced to tears by the Bergman-esque sorrow of life without a lasagna-eating beast in the house.
February 28th, 2008 at 12:51 am
That is completely great. I have been a huge Garfield fan since the 4th grade. Many of my Troll book orders included a rectangular Garfield book or two.
Thanks, George.
February 28th, 2008 at 10:51 am
Let us not forget the random Garfield generator. The originator of the concept discovered that randomly combining three panels often results in funnier results than Jim Davis’ team of animators. The originator took down his site after getting a cease-and-desist letter from Davis’ syndicate, but made the code openly available. Here are a couple of sites that have posted a random Garfield generator.
http://www.dougshaw.com/garfield.html
http://hygraed.googlepages.com/garfield.html
And as long as I’m commenting, I’ll mention the finest comic strip blog of all time, “Marmaduke Explained.” It must be experienced.
http://marmadukeexplained.blogspot.com/
February 28th, 2008 at 5:13 pm
That really is a hilarious web site.
February 28th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
Oh, and just to add to the mix, the Dysfunctional Family Circus:
http://dfc.furr.org
By the way, that Garfield generator is excellent!