The Garfield Thread - All about the Garfield

[Friendly Primarina]

Given the stigma around Garfield I feel like a loser for posting appreciation unironically, but sometimes Jon and Garfield are bros and it's really sweet [/powerlevel]:

I'm trying to find a strip to post in the "Deviant Garfield" thread that I saw as a kid. It has Garfield getting a massage from Nermal. I've looked for ages and it's driving me insane. Can somebody confirm if I imagined it or not?

Edit: So I spent my Sunday going through eight years of comics but I tracked it down. It feels like a Pyrrhic victory but I'll take it:

Nermal was scratching Garfield, not massaging him. No wonder I couldn't find it.

 

[exhausted]

Given the stigma around Garfield I feel like a loser for posting appreciation unironically, but sometimes Jon and Garfield are bros and it's really sweet [/powerlevel]:
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I'm trying to find a strip to post in the "Deviant Garfield" thread that I saw as a kid. It has Garfield getting a massage from Nermal. I've looked for ages and it's driving me insane. Can somebody confirm if I imagined it or not?

All I could find was this one- maybe you misremembered? Or maybe you saw some weird fetish shit

 

[Kosher Dill]

Is it true that Garfield eats pizza now in the comics instead of lasagna because it's easier to draw?

 

[Doctor Placebo]

All I could find was this one- maybe you misremembered? Or maybe you saw some weird fetish shit
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Garfield looks like he's enjoying this a little too much, but that's not half as disturbing as Odie's look of eager anticipation accompanied by fourth wall breaking.

 

[Muttnik]

I unironically find this segment rather beautiful. It's from Nine Lives btw.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I unironically find this segment rather beautiful. It's from Nine Lives btw.

That was emotional and creative. I'm not blind to the fact that it's because it has barely anything to do with Garfield. But beautiful nonetheless.

Jim Davis predicted otherkin:

Spoiler: Wolf Lady

Edit to avoid double-posting: I had to add this because it's too dumb to not post here:

Spoiler: Mildly NSFW

 

[Preferred Penne]

On-Topic: I loved "Garfield & Friends" when it aired on tv back in the 90's. Although at some point they re-did the intro with a mambo tune with random clips from the show. I liked the original intro better with Garfield fighting for tv space with U.S. Acres.

You mean you're not aware of the Garfield Rap?

 

[A Grey Cat]

The best garfield moment and it's not even official

Also love how this video got flagged as "made for kids" youtube idiocy never ceases to amaze me

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I just discovered this tumblr blog about someone who really hates Jon Arbuckle. They have a tag dedicated to portraying Jon as an animal abuser who creeps on women. I genuinely can't tell if this is satire.

Edit: Of course she has TDS (I'm assuming it's a she):

 

[Wraith]

How does he keep eating that lasagna? That stuff is disgusting.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

How does he keep eating that lasagna? That stuff is disgusting.

It's been pointed out in the thread, but Jim Davis said he wishes he had made pizza Garf's favorite food because it's easier to draw. Seriously there's a week long arc where Jon and Garfield order pizza, Garfield is so excited he tracks the pizza online, and when Jon gives him the leftovers the next morning Garfield is so emotional he starts crying (yes, really).

Spoiler: Garfield Autism

I've never noticed before, but showing Garfield crying, i.e. you can actually see his face and not just his mouth, is actually really rare. Not really important but I can't think of another single instance in 40+ years of strips.

Also, I feel compelled to post the strip immediately following that arc, because Dat Padding:

 

[Max Doof]

I unironically find this segment rather beautiful. It's from Nine Lives btw.

It's kinda funny how for as much flack garfield gets from its massive merchandise amd franchises jim davis seemed open to try new things for the strips or cartoons.
Makes me wish Garfield's judgment day was actually released considering it's "dark" nature.
And the song's really good too!

 

[Gaius Caesar]

How does he keep eating that lasagna? That stuff is disgusting.

When you're hungover on Monday like Garfield, nothing cures a case of the Mondays like some lasagna.

 

[Mr. Bung]

It's kinda funny how for as much flack garfield gets from its massive merchandise amd franchises jim davis seemed open to try new things for the strips or cartoons.
Makes me wish Garfield's judgment day was actually released considering it's "dark" nature.
And the song's really good too!

For a couple years of my life around 11-12 I was a huge Garfield fan, I had all sorts of comic books and merchandise, watched the cartoons etc. The phase slowly ended but it still totally broke my heart when I learned a few years later that Garfield was nothing but a huge marketing scheme created by Jim Davis. It's come full circle though, I guess because I'm not nearly as innocent as I once was, plus I love how the internet puts out all these crazy Garfield parodies like Lasagna Cat, Garfielf, and "bullets don't work, Jon."

 

[Trilby]

It's kinda funny how for as much flack garfield gets from its massive merchandise amd franchises jim davis seemed open to try new things for the strips or cartoons.
Makes me wish Garfield's judgment day was actually released considering it's "dark" nature.
And the song's really good too!

All that lost potential.

 

[Overcast]

I remember first discovering Garfield’s earliest strips as a kid and found it hilarious how different he looked compared to now. I even thought they were genuinely funny compared to his later stuff.

Jim may not have been one hundred percent passionate about Garfield, but I can’t help but feel he at least tried a little when he started out.

 

[alreadyhome]

The comics really depressed me as a kid but I didn't know why.

 

[Doctor Placebo]

I remember first discovering Garfield’s earliest strips as a kid and found it hilarious how different he looked compared to now. I even thought they were genuinely funny compared to his later stuff.

Jim may not have been one hundred percent passionate about Garfield, but I can’t help but feel he at least tried a little when he started out.

Even later he would try occasionally. Anywhere from one to five percent of the time Davis gets experimental. A lot of the posts on this thread have been showing those moments off. I imagine it's not easy to stay passionate about one thing when you've been doing it for 40ish years.

 

[Friendly Primarina]

I think the question of whether Davis tries anymore depends a lot on how cynical you are. For example, is the following a glimmer of effort and much-needed characterization. or low effort mawkish pap? You decide:

Personally I quite like this strip; it's certainly better that the low-effort padding I posted further up.

 

[Overcast]

I think the question of whether Davis tries anymore depends a lot on how cynical you are. For example, is the following a glimmer of effort and much-needed characterization. or low effort mawkish pap? You decide:
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Personally I quite like this strip; it's certainly better that the low-effort padding I posted further up.

So Jon and Lizard are dating now I take it? Didn’t think he’d ever do it.