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When I was a kid, I absolutely loved Jim Davis' Garfield. We didn't get The Columbus Citizen-Journal, the now-defunct newspaper that ran it at the time, but caught the first few strips at my Aunt Camille's house. My brother and I thought the strip was hilarious, and when they started to publish collections of the strips, we collected every book (possibly up to 13 of them, or so).
It's hard to know if the strips were actually funny, or just funny to us when we were kids. But Garfield long ago lost its charm for me. For one thing, the cartoon's running joke of Garfield being a fat cat got lost. His body got progressively smaller, while his eyes got ever bigger, and for some reason, oval. And like Beetle Bailey or Hi & Lois, it goes on and on, years after its peak.
But someone out there found a way to make it funny again! Side note: Orange and black cats can only be female. Discuss. . .
[Excerpt]Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness in a quiet American suburb.
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