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Title: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Narr on 28 Feb 2008, 11:03
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/page/1

Alternate titles for this thread include:
- How to make Jim Davis funny again
- Jon Arbuckle is My Hero
- Schizophrenia makes for good comics
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Ballard on 28 Feb 2008, 11:45
Awesome!
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: readiness on 28 Feb 2008, 17:11
that actually works! and is funny!
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: ALoveSupreme on 28 Feb 2008, 21:02
Incredible!!
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: dalconnsuch on 28 Feb 2008, 23:25
readin this stuff stoned makes for a great hour of your life
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: ThePQ4 on 29 Feb 2008, 10:56
...It took you an hour to read those? Or was it just 'cause you were stoned?

Anyway, hilarious. I used to love Garfield when I was little, and then I realized that I could read better comics online that weren't the same jokes used over and over and over again...
PLUS, Jon has a girlfriend now. WTF is up with that?
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 29 Feb 2008, 18:52
You'd have to take out both Garfield and the girlfriend to extract any entertainment value out of those.

EDIT: I made a couple of my own.  They turned out pretty well, I think.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/TheHusseinSkank/ga020227.gif)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/TheHusseinSkank/ga011208.gif)

EDIT: Two more.  I like to think that in the last one, Jon's madness has finally driven him into sociopathy.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/TheHusseinSkank/ga001028.gif)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v32/TheHusseinSkank/ga960119.gif)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Uber Ritter on 29 Feb 2008, 21:19
Probably right up there with the Nietzsche Family Circus in terms of entertainment value.

http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=27&q=103 (http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/perm.php?c=27&q=103)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Cernunnos on 02 Mar 2008, 08:39
There is also a garfield randomizer floating round the internet somewhere. Three random panels. Comedy gold.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Johnny C on 02 Mar 2008, 11:44
Truth and Beauty Bombs had a way better idea (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997).
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Jposh on 02 Mar 2008, 16:57
Wheres the one thats been edited to have Garfield with a real face?
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: JordyPordy on 02 Mar 2008, 19:07
i never realized before how sad and empty garfield was. its really just kinda depressing.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: SillyJonna on 03 Mar 2008, 00:47
I can't help laughing every time I see this one. (I'm terrible)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/Ryoushii/My3rdgarfieldedityz6.jpg)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: GenericName on 03 Mar 2008, 19:55
I'm pretty sure doing anything to Garfield makes it funnier.

However, what about trying this with QC? What happens if we remove Marten?
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Johnny C on 03 Mar 2008, 20:37
You get an average Coffee Of Doom strip.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Stefan Autsa on 04 Mar 2008, 02:54
In a similar vein, here (http://strippycomics.blogspot.com/2007/12/2-panel-garfield-future-of-humor.html) are Garfield comics without the last panel, which seem just as crazy.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: littlelove on 04 Mar 2008, 13:02
ah that was a good studying distraction:)
hahaha
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Narr on 04 Mar 2008, 21:37
I have a new level of respect for Garfield.

I wish Jim Davis would take a look at threads like this and realize simple ways he could make his comic infinitely better.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: fifthfiend on 08 Mar 2008, 23:56
Quote from: Johnny C on 02 Mar 2008, 11:44
Truth and Beauty Bombs had a way better idea (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997).

Honestly naw, it works best if you just eliminate Garfield entirely.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: edgewalker on 09 Mar 2008, 01:59
Quote from: fifthfiend on 08 Mar 2008, 23:56
Quote from: Johnny C on 02 Mar 2008, 11:44
Truth and Beauty Bombs had a way better idea (http://www.truthandbeautybombs.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4997).

Honestly naw, it works best if you just eliminate Garfield entirely.

After seeing some comics both ways, I have to say it’s a mixed bag. Sometimes it works better with Garfield removed completely, sometimes it works better with just his bubbles removed. And sometimes both methods work, producing very different results. F.ex., I find that these two are both hilarious, but for extremely different reasons:

(http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/3569/gar2gp4.jpg)

(http://img186.imageshack.us/img186/8228/gar2ed9.jpg)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: bicostp on 09 Mar 2008, 16:18
It's almost scary how well this works.

Sometimes they work even better if Jon doesn't say anything, either.

(http://img174.imageshack.us/img174/5103/crazyjongr4.gif)

Original comic (http://garfield.com/comics/comics_archives_strip.html?1983-ga830821)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: AngelofShadows on 09 Mar 2008, 17:16
I miss when I found garfield funny.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Switchblade on 09 Mar 2008, 18:20
I officially think that these two are the best:

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5ttxg5oPNliU3dF_500.jpg)

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO5tbbjd5pSHr2xm8_500.jpg)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Narr on 14 Mar 2008, 03:01
You know, I had a thought.

These wouldn't be as over-the-top hilarious to me if the original garfield didn't already exist.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: camelpimp on 15 Mar 2008, 17:59
None of the "tricks" you can apply to Garfield (such as removing Garfield, or silencing him, or randomizing the panel) will make the strip funny per se. Honestly, it's an inane (but insanely funny) exercise.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: bicostp on 15 Mar 2008, 18:42
Here's a couple more.

(http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8811/longevitypo9.png)

Jon has strange dietary habits.

(http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/8673/joneatsthingspk5.png)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Martelore on 17 Mar 2008, 19:36
That one with Jon running into the door is a great example of why this works. I looked up the original, and Garfield's line in it was "But don't you think running into the door every day will offset the benefits of the exercise?" Seriously.

Having Garfield say that, or even be in the strip at all, isn't necessary to the joke. His only purpose is to awkwardly overexplain what's already being shown, so taking him out actually makes the humor the strip was trying for stronger.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: frullic on 17 Mar 2008, 19:46
I used to read garfield as a kid, I have the whole colection in my basement. I somehow used to find it funny. Even then I noticed Jim Davis ended up losing it through the years. A mauled mailman is only funny the first few times.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Soulsynger on 20 Mar 2008, 09:22
The mauled mailman is a sinus-curve of entertainment: Funny the first ten times, not funny the next ten, then funny for another ten times, not funny for the next ten and so on and so on...

...

Also, I think someone should do a "Randomly cross-dressing invisible Garfield"-Comic.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: frullic on 20 Mar 2008, 19:27
Quote from: bicostp on 15 Mar 2008, 18:42
Here's a couple more.

(http://img292.imageshack.us/img292/8811/longevitypo9.png)


Holy crap it's Jon-O
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: muteKi on 21 Mar 2008, 09:34
Quote from: Narr on 14 Mar 2008, 03:01
You know, I had a thought.

These wouldn't be as over-the-top hilarious to me if the original garfield didn't already exist.

Perhaps not, but they'd still be pretty damn funny.

I wonder if Davis ever has this sort of thing in mind when he develops these comics.


That said, since most people can get offended easily by what's put in the comics section (to wit: Calvin and Hobbes got yanked on multiple occasions, but it's brilliant) it doesn't pay for a daily comic kind of guy to get too edgy in what he actually prints.


Also, has anyone seen the Simon's Cat videos on Youtube?
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: StreetSpirit on 21 Mar 2008, 12:21
I can't laugh enough at this comic! Thanks for sending the link for Garfield Minus Garfield, because I have already e-mailed the site onto a few friends as well as some co-workers that I know are going to be in stitches over how well the theory of John Arbuckle's schizophrenia plays out. Hopefully my neighbors won't start thinking I am schizophrenic while I sit here reading through more of Garfield laughing out loud in a rather small apartment building.

Cheers.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: bicostp on 21 Mar 2008, 13:02
A few more:

(http://bicostp.googlepages.com/1.gif)

This one took a lot longer than the others, but it was worth it.
(http://bicostp.googlepages.com/2.gif)

Another one where Garfield was completely unnecessary:
(http://bicostp.googlepages.com/4.gif)

He wants to be less pathetic, yet talks to a figment of his imagination? Okay...
(http://bicostp.googlepages.com/5.gif)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: JD on 02 Apr 2008, 16:15
Quote from: bicostp on 21 Mar 2008, 13:02

This one took a lot longer than the others, but it was worth it.
(http://bicostp.googlepages.com/2.gif)



You gave me a case of the giggles.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Umbermindscape on 03 Apr 2008, 09:33
One of my old professors does the pencils for Garfield. all Jim Davis does anymore is write.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Umbermindscape on 03 Apr 2008, 10:46
No, I haven't seen him in like... a year and a half.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Ikrik on 03 Apr 2008, 21:12
Quote from: Umbermindscape on 03 Apr 2008, 09:33
One of my old professors does the pencils for Garfield. all Jim Davis does anymore is write.

So wait...Jim Davis doesn't do anything anymore?  That's pretty sad, and yet he still slaps his name on this creature that he likes to call Garfield.

Has someone tried removing all of Garfield's audio from the movie? Would that make it any better or would it stil lbe terrible?
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Noct on 03 Apr 2008, 22:48
A slightly different take on this phenomenon was up on ectomo a while back
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/03/25/the-midnight-lol-society-the-horror-the-loneliness-the-ennui-of-post-modern-existence/ (http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/03/25/the-midnight-lol-society-the-horror-the-loneliness-the-ennui-of-post-modern-existence/)

That cat face haunts my dreams.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: MrSteevo on 05 Apr 2008, 21:15
Evil cat, EVIL!
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: sean on 05 Apr 2008, 22:20
Quote from: Ikrik on 03 Apr 2008, 21:12
Has someone tried removing all of Garfield's audio from the movie? Would that make it any better or would it stil lbe terrible?

If somebody did this I think I would finally watch it.

Actually, I think this would make a lot of movies better. I can't think of any though, fucking one am.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: ImRonBurgundy? on 09 Apr 2008, 00:41
Quote from: bicostp on 21 Mar 2008, 13:02
http://bicostp.googlepages.com/1.gif

Oh my God I love this one.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Liz on 09 Apr 2008, 10:49
That one is also my favorite. So darn good.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Töys on 12 Apr 2008, 06:17
someone mentioned Realfield, it's my favorite version as well.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2009/1529331900_861507a2c0_o.jpg)

it makes Jon, not so crazy, but still tragic and very borderline schizo.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Narr on 13 Apr 2008, 23:17
Realfield is pretty awesome.  Honestly, it's how I imagine most pet owners that happen to be single.

The one where he finds the quarter out of what you just posted is a very realistic scenario.  I've said stupid things like that to my dogs multiple times, just because they're there and something to talk at, even if they don't understand.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Evander on 14 Apr 2008, 07:39
Quote from: SillyJonna on 03 Mar 2008, 00:47
I can't help laughing every time I see this one. (I'm terrible)

(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v295/Ryoushii/My3rdgarfieldedityz6.jpg)

I cannot stop laughing at that last panel.  Like, seriously.



This is probably going to get me in trouble next time some one walks by my desk.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Evander on 14 Apr 2008, 07:50
This one brought back memories of Tardy the Turtle, from the Greg the Bunny Show:

(http://data.tumblr.com/fSymsOGXO7e94ibw5NYgSWEZ_500.gif)
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: Roivas on 30 Apr 2008, 02:44
Personally I find this new psychopathic John easier to relate to and a lot more humorous. I doubt Jim Davis even cares anymore about his cash cat so sending him suggestions will be about as useful as throwing a written letter out the window.

"I found a quarter in the dryer!"
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: bicostp on 05 May 2008, 19:51
Doesn't it seem like Garfield is becoming less and less necessary to the strip? All of these came form the last month or so.

(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/2626/35192796hk8.gif)

(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/9848/10dw5.gif)

(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/449/11sf5.gif)

(http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/3037/12qu8.gif)

(http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/5440/14vs6.gif)

EDIT: I just realized the Garfield Minus Garfield site already did some of these. These aren't their pics, though. Just a coincidence.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: JediBendu on 06 May 2008, 10:24
I can't believe so few people have realized that taking out Garfield or his thought bubbles doesn't necessarily heighten the humor by making Jon schizophrenic and pathetic, it's just taking out Garfield's unfunny internal dialogue with himself. The strips already have Jon talking to a pet that doesn't talk back to him, Jon has always been schizophrenic and pathetic.
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: bicostp on 07 May 2008, 13:44
Of course Jon has always been schizophrenic. Removing Garfield (either just his thoughts or entirely) cuts the reader off from that perspective, making Jon's mental issues, rather than a sarcastic cat, the prominent aspect of the comic.

Aside from that, editing comics is fun when there's nothing else to do. :D
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: kraemandrummer on 20 Oct 2008, 20:04
Quote from: Noct on 03 Apr 2008, 22:48
A slightly different take on this phenomenon was up on ectomo a while back
http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/03/25/the-midnight-lol-society-the-horror-the-loneliness-the-ennui-of-post-modern-existence/ (http://www.ectomo.com/index.php/2008/03/25/the-midnight-lol-society-the-horror-the-loneliness-the-ennui-of-post-modern-existence/)

That cat face haunts my dreams.


AWESOME!!!!!

a friend of mine first showed me that cat. It as Garfield is fucking a
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: sherrou on 20 Dec 2008, 08:44
this is an interesting one - http://ceebeegeebee.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/garfield-is-dead/
Title: Re: Garfield Minus Garfield
Post by: GenericName on 20 Dec 2008, 11:55
This thread is dead. Hello, dead thread.