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
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Transcript:
Garfield: I'm hungry.
Jon: Garfield, you know how I hate it when you poke me.
Garfield: Then feed me.
Jon: How would you like it if I poked you?!
Lyman: It's things like that, that make me glad I'm a dog owner.
Odie: I'm hungry.
I discovered that there's a comic strip called Jon that was the precursor to Garfield, and thought it would be interesting to post. A lot of these correspond directly to later Garfield comics. This one is almost exactly the same as the first official Garfield strip:
Here's some background on these strips:
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Garfield: The house cat has a busy schedule. What with sharpening claws. And seeing his owner off on a big night.
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Garfield: The actor cat is being filmed escaping from the enemy. He must leap off a cliff to complete the escape. Which, of course, is done by a stunt dog.
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Garfield: The farm cat sets out to patrol his property. He happens upon a plot of fresh catnip. And wakes up the next morning in Atlantic City with a Barbie doll.
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Garfield: The wild cat stalks the environs in search of prey. He attacks a helpless chicken. A big, BIG, only semi-helpless chicken.
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Garfield: The alley cat scrounges for food. He pokes his head into a promising garbage can. PEEEYEWWW!
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Garfield: The jungle cat awakes with a voracious appetite. He instinctively sets out to slay some breakfast. That wasn't very pretty, but it's all part of the food chain.
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Odie: SLURP!
Garfield: Yuk. Look, Odie...me cat, you dog, we fight. That's the order of things. Understand?
Odie: SLURP!
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Garfield: Here comes another girl scout. Watch this.
Girl: Beat it, cat!
Garfield: Whatever happened to "sugar 'n' spice 'n' everything nice"?
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Garfield: Oh goody. Here come more Girl Scouts with more cookies! Rats! They have a den mother riding point.
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Jon: I'm very disappointed in you, Garfield. I can't believe you mugged a Girl Scout for her cookies.
Garfield: So cancel my good conduct medal.
Jon: In one ear, and out the other.
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Girl: Hey, Mister. your cat ate all my Girl Scout cookies.
Jon: How do you know it was MY cat who ate your cookies?
Girl: Twelve boxes' worth?
Jon: That's my cat.
Garfield: O-o-o-o.
