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Showing posts with label Garfield. Show all posts
2014-09-22
Philosophical Phunday: Meaningless Coincidence
Back on the 2nd of September I noticed a weird coincidence in the comics pages. Three of the strips seemed to be thematically linked. First there's Garfield doing a pretty standard Garfield bit.
That Mirror-Garfield talking to Real-Garfield thing is a running joke. Then we have Crankshaft in which we see the old "someone sees something weird and then looks at their drink and says they're never drinking again" joke.
If you've never seen that one before you must have been raised in isolation with no access to television or movies. But then we have the final piece of the puzzle, that links these two strips together.
It's Curtis doing a combination of both those jokes (in a too young to drink way). Weird, right? That's all, I didn't really have a point, it's just something I noticed.
OK, this is the equivalent of a human being terrified of McDonald's because they eat mammals in there! Dodos are not chickens.
Sorry, Alley, I agree with this guy. Your teeth are perfectly straight, your hair is neatly trimmed, your body is strangely hairless. You look nothing like a caveman.
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| Garfield, 2014-09-02. |
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| Crankshaft, 2014-09-02. |
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| Curtis, 2014-09-02. |
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| Safe Havens, 2014-09-03. |
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| Alley Oop, 2014-09-18. |
2014-05-07
One-Panel Wednesday: As rare as hen's teeth
The Lockhorns, 2014-05-05.
Leroy spots a sign in a window — "SIGN UP FOR OUR 10K CHALLENGE". He stops to consider it.
"Forget it, Leroy..." says Loretta, tiredly. "'K' is for kilometers, not 'kegs.'"
Ballard Street, 2014-05-05.
Roger is hanging by his hands from a clamp that he has affixed to a door-frame. At his feet a number of other clamps are scattered about. A dog is investigating them.
"Clamps are not a proper area of interest, Roger." says his wife.
Heathcliff, 2014-05-05.
Heathcliff and Garfield stand facing each other on an empty street.
"ShIt just got real." says one bird to another.
Pluggers, 2014-05-05.
Henrietta Beak is sitting in her car.
"Uh oh." she says, looking at the calendar she keeps on the dash. "I forgot I have a dentist appointment Friday. I better start flossing tonight."
A plugger continues to put a stick-on calendar she got from her bank onto her car's dashboard, even though she has three calendars on her cellphone.
Henrietta Beak is a chicken. She doesn't have teeth. Why is she going to a dentist? She is a chicken!
Leroy spots a sign in a window — "SIGN UP FOR OUR 10K CHALLENGE". He stops to consider it.
"Forget it, Leroy..." says Loretta, tiredly. "'K' is for kilometers, not 'kegs.'"
Ballard Street, 2014-05-05.
Roger is hanging by his hands from a clamp that he has affixed to a door-frame. At his feet a number of other clamps are scattered about. A dog is investigating them.
"Clamps are not a proper area of interest, Roger." says his wife.
Heathcliff, 2014-05-05.
Heathcliff and Garfield stand facing each other on an empty street.
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Pluggers, 2014-05-05.
Henrietta Beak is sitting in her car.
"Uh oh." she says, looking at the calendar she keeps on the dash. "I forgot I have a dentist appointment Friday. I better start flossing tonight."
A plugger continues to put a stick-on calendar she got from her bank onto her car's dashboard, even though she has three calendars on her cellphone.
Henrietta Beak is a chicken. She doesn't have teeth. Why is she going to a dentist? She is a chicken!
2014-03-23
Weekend Workshop: Everyone gets the Arlo and Janis treatment
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| Based on Flo and Friends, 2014-03-17. |
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| Based on The Amazing Spider-Man, 2014-03-18. |
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| Based on Blondie, 2014-03-18. |
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| Based on Hi and Lois, 2014-03-18. |
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| Based on Mary Worth, 2014-03-19. |
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| Based on Garfield, 2014-03-20. |
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| Garfield, 2013-09-20. |
Oh wait.
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| Garfield, 2013-02-16. |
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2013-07-16
Garfield
"Garfield, I am calling you..." calls a voice from inside the refrigerator.
"I am the lasagna" it says.
Garfield smiles and opens the fridge door.
"Not!" says the voice.
"Meat loaf is cruel" thinks Garfield.
Evidently the voice was actually meatloaf and not lasagne. Well, that explains everything.
Comic
"I am the lasagna" it says.
Garfield smiles and opens the fridge door.
"Not!" says the voice.
"Meat loaf is cruel" thinks Garfield.
Evidently the voice was actually meatloaf and not lasagne. Well, that explains everything.
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2013-07-04
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2013-05-26
Pondering Garfield
I often like to make improvements to Garfield strips, a task made fairly easy by the fact that the art is so simple, the backgrounds are generally flat colours and the only direction it's possible to take the joke is up, but honestly, Garfield isn't that bad.
No no, hear me out. Look at this strip for example:
It's true, it could certainly be better, but there's the seed of a decent joke there. The biggest problem is simply the need to give Garfield some dialogue. The punchline is clearly Jon's third-panel dialogue, but at that stage Garfield hasn't said anything, so the strip ends on the weaker joke of Garfield insulting Jon. So let's get rid of that.
That's better, but I think we can still get some improvement.
Now what we've got is the actual essence of the joke. Jon tied his shoelaces together, but rather than simply retying them like a normal person he is just taking small steps and complaining about it to his cat. That was the original joke, but it was padded out with unnecessary dialogue and weakened by being carried on past the actual punchline.
There's no reason Garfield can't be a funny strip. I like to think I've made it funny on numerous occasions, as have several others. The actual hard bit is done, the joke has been written, it's just buried underneath a pile of extraneous dialogue that has no business being there.
No no, hear me out. Look at this strip for example:
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| Garfield, 2013-05-06. |
That's better, but I think we can still get some improvement.
Now what we've got is the actual essence of the joke. Jon tied his shoelaces together, but rather than simply retying them like a normal person he is just taking small steps and complaining about it to his cat. That was the original joke, but it was padded out with unnecessary dialogue and weakened by being carried on past the actual punchline.
There's no reason Garfield can't be a funny strip. I like to think I've made it funny on numerous occasions, as have several others. The actual hard bit is done, the joke has been written, it's just buried underneath a pile of extraneous dialogue that has no business being there.
2013-05-23
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