Garfield

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Transcript:

Woman: I have a tabby at home just like you. Hee-hee. Aren't you cute!

Jon: Where are you going, Garfield?

Garfield: To put a runner in that lady's support hose.

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=488

Strip by: Toni Ylisirniö

Jon: Here we are boys. Out here with Mother Nature, no cars, no clock, no stress.

Garfield: ... No TV, no microwave, no refrigerator, no indoor litter box.

The author writes:

The splash panel from strip 1989-08-27 turned into a paint by numbers exercise. The colours are from Crayola's crayon catalogue.

Turned out to be surprisingly difficult to get workable high res from the web sources, so had to basically re-ink the panel digitally.

Included is a print resolution version of the strip, and also a scalable SVG vector graphic file (the original, made with Inkscape).

Original strip: 1989-08-27.

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Transcript:

Garfield: POOF.

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Transcript:

KONG!

Garfield: I don't know why I did that. I guess it comes naturally to a knee-jerk dog hater.

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=522

Strip by: Bill Gilliland

#! /usr/bin/perl

for(split q,,,q,44444444x445C=@44x447B;?44x447C7@<4x467BCB84x4A6<BB64x47,.
q,5;<964x4CA<C=54x456548=4x468646=6x4C<847=8x554<465;x6>54464@x665447=Cx,.
q,7864469@x686446>:x98844866x998448>5x>9944<87x>89456<;x>7@4664Cx>664@84,.
q,;xA67C4847x@?@44@46x88<47<4Bx;4:4C<7@x7<5CC<7@x5>47C47<x554?B774x5C4;@,.
q,;@4x55<45C84x64444464xx,){if($i=4,/x/x){print"\n"}else{$x=-52+ord;while(
$i--){if(1<<$i<=$x){print'#';$x-=2**$i}else{print' '}}}}

The author writes:

The easiest way to see the output of this script is to use codepad.org.

Or you can also paste it into a text file and run it from a Unix terminal. I also attached a little screen capture of the output (zoomed out so the effect shows up better).

I could give you a detailed spoiler of why it works, but then it wouldn't be obfuscated, would it? ;)

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This strip was recycled for the June 30, 1978 strip in the syndicated version:

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Transcript:

Garfield tries to impress a girl.

Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=499

Strip by: AJ.Ä.

Odie, Garfield, & Jon: {lots of computer code}

Odie, Garfield, & Jon: {in Smalltalk programming language} Transcript show: 'HeeHeeHeeHeeHee'

Jon: Smalltalk.

The author writes:

I'm honestly surprised if this hasn't been done yet, considering the kind of audience this comic has: Smalltalk.

Original strip: 1995-03-03.

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Transcript:

Garfield: Whew. I can't finish my mea. WHAT AM I SAYING?!! It just wouldn't be Garfield to leave food.

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Transcript:

Jon gets confused by Garfield coming in and going out.

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Liz's first appearance, unnamed. This strip would be re-adapted for the June 30, 1979 strip in the syndicated version:

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Permanent URL: https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/?comic=3845

Strip by: Manyhills

Garfield {reading}: "Dear Ask a Dog,"...

Garfield {reading}: "What exactly is a beef by-product?"

Odie: Arf arf arf

Garfield: Tupac's murder

{Odie winks}

The author writes:

My admittedly ignorant reading of the consensus is that the unsolved murder of American rapper Tupac Shakur is thought to be probably unrelated to the high-profile coastal rivalry then-ongoing in the hip-hop industry. But maybe Odie knows something we don't.

Original strips: 2011-03-03, 2018-02-07, 2018-07-11.

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Transcript:

Odie falls over when playing ball

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