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Garfield

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Hello fellow Garfield fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Bloom County!

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Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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Strip by: David McLeish

The author writes:

This is the result of averaging the colour values at each pixel for every regular (non-Sunday) Garfield strip from 2007. Buried in the blur you can notice some interesting features:

  • The absolutely static 3-panel structure with a borderless panel in the middle.
  • Jon tends to stand on the left and Garfield on the right.
  • The dialogue is always lined up exactly in the same vertical location.
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[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

Thought it'd be interesting to post some of the Square Root of Minus Garfield comics, which were inspired by garfield minus garfield, but more experimental. Not sure if I'll keep posting these, but if you like them and think they'd be a good addition, let me know!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 16 hours ago

I like that they bother to transcribe it lol:

Garfield: a oo a e o e i e e i a e

Jon: a e o ou, a ie?

Garfield: a o e o ou u i e

Wouldn't be surprised if a future SRMG strip turns that into a Witch Doctor reference