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               Arbuckle, which is Jon's last name, by the way …

> In 1978, Jim Davis began a newspaper comic strip called “Garfield”. For
> almost forty years, this strip has endured, primarily because its
> inoffensive, storyless humour is immediately accessible. It is, if not
> quite the Lowest Common Denominator of the comic world, at least as close
> to it as one can get without being obviously mediocre.
>
> The comic changes dramatically when one removes the thought bubbles.
>
> “Garfield” changes from being a comic about a sassy, corpulent feline, and
> becomes a compelling picture of a lonely, pathetic, delusional man who
> talks to his pets. Consider that Jon, according to Garfield canon, cannot
> hear his cat's thoughts. This is the world as he sees it. This is his
> story.
>

“Arbuckle: Garfield through Jon's eyes. [1]”

A while back I mentioned the thoughtless Garfield meme [2]. This person [3]
went one futher and is redrawing (with help) Garfield in a more realistic
manner [4].

I wonder what Paws, Inc. [5] will make of all this?

[1] http://www.tailsteak.com/arbuckle/
[2] gopher://gopher.conman.org/0Phlog:2006/02/08.1
[3] http://tailsteak.com/
[4] http://www.tailsteak.com/arbuckle/
[5] http://www.garfield.com/paws.html

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