Topic: Garfield Minus Garfield (Read 42453 times)

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

Ballard · « **Reply #1 on:** 28 Feb 2008, 11:45 »

Awesome!

readiness · « **Reply #2 on:** 28 Feb 2008, 17:11 »

that actually works! and is funny!

ALoveSupreme · « **Reply #3 on:** 28 Feb 2008, 21:02 »

Incredible!!

dalconnsuch · « **Reply #4 on:** 28 Feb 2008, 23:25 »

readin this stuff stoned makes for a great hour of your life

ThePQ4 · « **Reply #5 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?

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #6 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.

EDIT: Two more. I like to think that in the last one, Jon's madness has finally driven him into sociopathy.

Uber Ritter · « **Reply #7 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

Cernunnos · « **Reply #8 on:** 02 Mar 2008, 08:39 »

There is also a garfield randomizer floating round the internet somewhere. Three random panels. Comedy gold.

Johnny C · « **Reply #9 on:** 02 Mar 2008, 11:44 »

Truth and Beauty Bombs had a way better idea.

Jposh · « **Reply #10 on:** 02 Mar 2008, 16:57 »

Wheres the one thats been edited to have Garfield with a real face?

JordyPordy · « **Reply #11 on:** 02 Mar 2008, 19:07 »

i never realized before how sad and empty garfield was. its really just kinda depressing.

SillyJonna · « **Reply #12 on:** 03 Mar 2008, 00:47 »

I can't help laughing every time I see this one. (I'm terrible)

GenericName · « **Reply #13 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?

Johnny C · « **Reply #14 on:** 03 Mar 2008, 20:37 »

You get an average Coffee Of Doom strip.

Stefan Autsa · « **Reply #15 on:** 04 Mar 2008, 02:54 »

In a similar vein, here are Garfield comics without the last panel, which seem just as crazy.

littlelove · « **Reply #16 on:** 04 Mar 2008, 13:02 »

ah that was a good studying distraction:)
hahaha

Narr · « **Reply #17 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.

fifthfiend · « **Reply #18 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.

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

edgewalker · « **Reply #19 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.

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:

bicostp · « **Reply #20 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.

Original comic

AngelofShadows · « **Reply #21 on:** 09 Mar 2008, 17:16 »

I miss when I found garfield funny.

Switchblade · « **Reply #22 on:** 09 Mar 2008, 18:20 »

I officially think that these two are the best:

Narr · « **Reply #23 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.

camelpimp · « **Reply #24 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.

bicostp · « **Reply #25 on:** 15 Mar 2008, 18:42 »

Here's a couple more.

Jon has strange dietary habits.

Martelore · « **Reply #26 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.

frullic · « **Reply #27 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.

Soulsynger · « **Reply #28 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.

frullic · « **Reply #29 on:** 20 Mar 2008, 19:27 »

Quote from: bicostp on 15 Mar 2008, 18:42

Here's a couple more.

Holy crap it's Jon-O

muteKi · « **Reply #30 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?

StreetSpirit · « **Reply #31 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.

bicostp · « **Reply #32 on:** 21 Mar 2008, 13:02 »

A few more:

This one took a lot longer than the others, but it was worth it.

Another one where Garfield was completely unnecessary:

He wants to be less pathetic, yet talks to a figment of his imagination? Okay...

JD · « **Reply #33 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.

You gave me a case of the giggles.

Umbermindscape · « **Reply #34 on:** 03 Apr 2008, 09:33 »

One of my old professors does the pencils for Garfield. all Jim Davis does anymore is write.

Umbermindscape · « **Reply #35 on:** 03 Apr 2008, 10:46 »

No, I haven't seen him in like... a year and a half.

Ikrik · « **Reply #36 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?

Noct · « **Reply #37 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/

That cat face haunts my dreams.

MrSteevo · « **Reply #38 on:** 05 Apr 2008, 21:15 »

Evil cat, EVIL!

sean · « **Reply #39 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.

ImRonBurgundy? · « **Reply #40 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.

Liz · « **Reply #41 on:** 09 Apr 2008, 10:49 »

That one is also my favorite. So darn good.

Töys · « **Reply #42 on:** 12 Apr 2008, 06:17 »

someone mentioned Realfield, it's my favorite version as well.

it makes Jon, not so crazy, but still tragic and very borderline schizo.

Narr · « **Reply #43 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.

Evander · « **Reply #44 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)

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.

Evander · « **Reply #45 on:** 14 Apr 2008, 07:50 »

This one brought back memories of Tardy the Turtle, from the Greg the Bunny Show:

Roivas · « **Reply #46 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!"

bicostp · « **Reply #47 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.

EDIT: I just realized the Garfield Minus Garfield site already did some of these. These aren't their pics, though. Just a coincidence.

JediBendu · « **Reply #48 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.

bicostp · « **Reply #49 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.

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