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Garfield

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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

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Bloom County!

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Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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Strip by: Introbulus

Jon: What a boring day.

{Garfield prepares to blow a tuba behind Jon}

The author writes:

After seeing the strip for this day, I realised that most of the panels in the three-panel-a-day comic were completely unnecessary to the joke. Seeing how brevity is the soul of wit, I've cut the unnecessary panels out of the strip.

I think the final result is much improved.

Original strip: 2009-08-20.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Keep these edits coming. You seem to be making Garfield actually have a punchline, which I didn’t know could happen.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Thanks! To be clear, I can't take credit for these, I just repost the good ones from https://mezzacotta.net/garfield/