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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

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Jon - 1976-01-22 (discuss.online)

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Largely the same as the Garfield strip from 1978-08-07:

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[–] codexarcanum 3 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I knew about Jon, I think from the Quentin reviews video about the history of Garfield, but maybe from my own wiki dives. I'm obcessed with the Pipe Strip video (ironically?) so I've done a little digging myself.

But I've never really compared them side by side with the "remakes" and it's a pretty interesting contrast. Davis' art style is simpler and less expressive in some ways. In Jon, Lyman's desperation posture is affecting, I really feel for the guy. His cartoonier pose in Garfield is funnier, less melancholy. I think the joke lands better. Same with swapping "apartment" for "home", helps the punchline to land better.

I'm not saying its an amazing joke, but it's interesting to see how Davis grew and changed over time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

In Jon, Lyman’s desperation posture is affecting, I really feel for the guy. His cartoonier pose in Garfield is funnier, less melancholy. I think the joke lands better.

yow, there are different elements from each version that I like better.

in Jon panels 2 and 4 I like Lyman's pose better than the later equivalent. The full prostration really helps deliver the joke, which is falls flat (ha!) in the later one. But panel 3's pose is better in the later version (more "typical melodromatic pose")
I kinda like the earlier "my apartment is your apartment" better bc it subverts the expected "my home is your home". It's still not enough of a joke to carry the strip by itself tho.
I like the later "ding dong" panel just showing Garf's face. dunno what's up with that background tho
glad he got rid of the unfortunate use of "massuh" there.
either way, Garf's sandbox is off-limits.