Garfield without Garfield

DaemonSeid · #1 07-01-2009, 10:53 AM

Hmmm...any psych majors our there want to take a look at this?

Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.
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MysticCat · #2 07-01-2009, 11:02 AM

And I didn't think Garfield could be any more boring or inane. Guess I was wrong.

AOII_LB93 · #3 07-01-2009, 11:40 AM

Interesting. This may need further reflection. I have bookmarked this and will go back to it. Poor Jon, tortured soul.

I liked Garfield as a kid, until I realized the error of my ways and found Calvin and Hobbes.

Little32 · #4 07-01-2009, 02:50 PM

lol @ the idea. The person running the site needs to put that energy into finishing the diss that I know is languishing in a corner somewhere.
Calvin and Hobbes is great.

KSigkid · #5 07-01-2009, 02:50 PM

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Interesting. This may need further reflection. I have bookmarked this and will go back to it. Poor Jon, tortured soul.

I liked Garfield as a kid, until I realized the error of my ways and found Calvin and Hobbes.

Seriously, I miss Calvin and Hobbes.

AOIIalum · #6 07-01-2009, 04:55 PM

I subscribe to a daily comics feed and get Calvin and Hobbes, along with Fox Trot Classics, Bloom County and The Academia Waltz. Makes mornings so much better!

Senusret I · #7 07-01-2009, 07:39 PM

I really enjoy the existential Jon Arbuckle.

RU OX Alum · #8 07-01-2009, 08:14 PM

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I subscribe to a daily comics feed and get Calvin and Hobbes, along with Fox Trot Classics, Bloom County and The Academia Waltz. Makes mornings so much better!

First of all, please share the link.

Secondly, have you ever read/seen the "alternate" ending to Calvin and Hobbes where he goes on dex (I can't remember if they named riddilin or addy but whatever, it's all dex) and Hobbes stops being real? Absolutely heart-breaking but entirely accurate.

AOII_LB93 · #9 07-01-2009, 10:03 PM

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First of all, please share the link.

Secondly, have you ever read/seen the "alternate" ending to Calvin and Hobbes where he goes on dex (I can't remember if they named riddilin or addy but whatever, it's all dex) and Hobbes stops being real? Absolutely heart-breaking but entirely accurate.

I call foul...don't even post that crap. Blasphemer! Hobbes was real....and I'm still convinced the bastards at Pixar stole my idea for Toy Story. When I was a kid, my mom always told me my toys came alive when I wasn't in the room, so I'd try and sneak up on them.

To this day I still have a problem putting stuffed animals in a plastic bag.

I know...I'm nuts.

Back to existential Jon Arbuckle.

MysticCat · #10 07-01-2009, 10:36 PM

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I call foul...don't even post that crap. Blasphemer! Hobbes was real....

Semi-foul. There is such a strip, but Bill Watterson didn't do it:

[Sorry -- All attempts to link the image are failing, but you can see it if you scroll down toward the bottom of the page here.]

Aside from the fact that it is completely inconsistent with everything Watterson ever did with the strip, note that Calvin looks the same in the second and last frames, that Hobbes looks the same in the first three frames, and that the lettering doesn't look quite right. (Note the title, too.) Somebody else put it together. (ETA: The essay I linked to describes it as a fan-made strip and notes: "This strip is, obviously, a wholesale betrayal of the concept of Calvin and Hobbes.")

That said, I have read that Watterson considered at one point having the strip end by Calvin growing up enough to walk away and leave Hobbes behind. If that's true, I'm glad he decided not to do that.

In case anyone has forgotten, this is the real last strip:

My son has been reading C&H since he was 3 -- his favorite stuffed animal has always been a tiger that we got out of a claw machine; he named it Hobbes. I took a sharpie one time and put stripes on a red shirt so that he could go as Calvin for a costume day at school. He wore that shirt out.

I feel like playing Calvinball.

CutiePie2000 · #11 07-02-2009, 02:55 AM

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And I didn't think Garfield could be any more boring or inane. Guess I was wrong.

"Cathy" sucks the big one too.

Xidelt · #12 07-02-2009, 03:57 AM

I love how snl makes fun of Cathy on weekend update. I was never a fan of Garfield. In fact, it's a personal rule to never allow Garfield posters in my classroom.

AOIIalum · #13 07-02-2009, 11:05 AM

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First of all, please share the link.

I've got a subscription and it's worth every dime to get my comics in my daily email. I think they also have a freebie membership but don't think it includes the archives. I'm also hooked on On A Claire Day, The Norm, The Meaning of Lila, Domestic Abuse, and Watch Your Head. http://www.gocomics.com/

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Secondly, have you ever read/seen the "alternate" ending to Calvin and Hobbes where he goes on dex (I can't remember if they named riddilin or addy but whatever, it's all dex) and Hobbes stops being real? Absolutely heart-breaking but entirely accurate.

Yes, and it's heart-breaking, tear-inducing, makes you ache for hours after reading it accurate.

KSigkid · #14 07-02-2009, 12:11 PM

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I feel like playing Calvinball.

Me too - I'll bet I'd win Q to 12.

Little32 · #15 07-02-2009, 01:08 PM

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Me too - I'll bet I'd win Q to 12.

Ha. I need to take my collection back from my cousin and reread it.