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		Someone decides to ask Jim Davis about The Onion's article reporting he's dating Taylor Swift. Davis responds with a one-liner funnier than any Garfield comic strip (thestarpress.com)		56
		More: Amusing, The Onion, garfield, swifts, onions, comics, cartoonists, lovebirds, Taylor Lautner

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St_Francis_P		2012-12-13 02:20:53 PM

Big deal. Someone sneezing is funnier than any Garfield comic strip.

dahmers love zombie		2012-12-13 05:04:51 PM

dahmers love zombie		2012-12-13 05:25:46 PM

I have a serious love for the Garfield minus Garfield webcomic, and last Sunday's Garfield was set up so perfectly that I couldn't wait for G-G to do it, so I did it myself. I really like it.

i.imgur.com

The Stealth Hippopotamus		2012-12-13 05:32:44 PM

The movie is still better

Rev. Skarekroe		2012-12-13 05:32:53 PM

WhoIsWillo		2012-12-13 05:39:49 PM

fusillade762		2012-12-13 06:25:24 PM

For some reason I'm reminded of a Carey Grant line. Some newspaper heard it was his birthday and sent him a telegram asking "How old Carey Grant?", to which he replied "Old Carey Grant fine, how you?"

I don't know why I thought of that.

TheBeastOfYuccaFlats		2012-12-13 06:27:05 PM

While I am not a big fan of Garfield anymore, the guy's PAWS empire is something of which I'm quite envious.

Jaws_Victim		2012-12-13 07:26:46 PM

dahmers love zombie: I have a serious love for the Garfield minus Garfield webcomic, and last Sunday's Garfield was set up so perfectly that I couldn't wait for G-G to do it, so I did it myself. I really like it.

[i.imgur.com image 599x417]

Good god that is hysterical. I done clicked that there funny button

DaCaptain19		2012-12-13 07:27:48 PM

No, no, no, no, no.

The Onion needs to be shut down. It's parodies people and situations - and is therefore humor. Somebody may off themselves.

styckx		2012-12-13 07:27:56 PM

She's moved on already though - Taylor Swift Now Dating Suri Cruise

Flint Ironstag		2012-12-13 07:33:21 PM

Garfield may be a pale shadow of its past self and a pure money grab but everything I've heard suggests Davis himself is a cool guy. Wasn't there some webcomic that parodied Garfield and he sent them a framed hand drawn personalised Garfield?

I still have the Garfield with suction cups from twenty years ago. One day I will put it back on my car window.

MorePeasPlease		2012-12-13 07:36:18 PM

tarnok		2012-12-13 07:49:07 PM

This is really pushing the bounds of not-news. With all the stuff actually happening in the world someone thought that an article about an article about something that wasn't actually true, was worth writing today.

Relevant Penny-Arcade comic.

styckx		2012-12-13 07:50:53 PM

Penny arcade comics aren't funny though.

fusillade762		2012-12-13 07:53:35 PM

DaCaptain19: No, no, no, no, no.

The Onion needs to be shut down. It's parodies people and situations - and is therefore humor. Somebody may off themselves.

Victim Of Mall Shooting Determined Not To Die In Yankee Candle

Too soon?

12349876		2012-12-13 08:07:11 PM

There's a new one.

Taylor Swift Now Dating Suri Cruise

Link

Cowkitchen2		2012-12-13 08:09:45 PM

I've run into Jim Davis around town several times. Nice guy I don't care for Garfield, but my 9-year-old loves it.

andrewagill		2012-12-13 08:10:32 PM

Arachnophobe		2012-12-13 08:12:21 PM

dahmers love zombie: I have a serious love for the Garfield minus Garfield webcomic, and last Sunday's Garfield was set up so perfectly that I couldn't wait for G-G to do it, so I did it myself. I really like it.

[i.imgur.com image 599x417]

If you weren't already favorited, this would have done it.

StoPPeRmobile		2012-12-13 08:20:43 PM

tarnok: This is really pushing the bounds of not-news. With all the stuff actually happening in the world someone thought that an article about an article about something that wasn't actually true, was worth writing today.

Relevant Penny-Arcade comic.

welcometo...

PumpkinCake		2012-12-13 08:38:28 PM

dahmers love zombie: [i.imgur.com image 500x145]

LOVE.

redsquid		2012-12-13 08:55:55 PM

tarnok: This is really pushing the bounds of not-news. With all the stuff actually happening in the world someone thought that an article about an article about something that wasn't actually true, was ~~worth writing~~ worth showing disdain for today.

Relevant Penny-Arcade comic.

FTFD
(fixed that for douche)

dookdookdook		2012-12-13 09:08:42 PM

Holy crap, Internet, Garfield isn't THAT bad. Yes, it's stale and repetitive these days compared to its best years, but when you first create a comic strip, you don't ask yourself if the characters are deep enough to give you 10,000+ strips worth of fresh material.

Go to the archives on Garfield.com and search around randomly through the late 80's - mid 90's to see what Garfield used to be like.

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom		2012-12-13 09:09:54 PM

You know you suck as a writer when someone removing the titular character from your work makes it 10x more entertaining.

Dingleberry Dickwad		2012-12-13 09:17:42 PM

Dow Jones and the Temple of Doom: You know you suck as a writer when someone removing the titular character from your work makes it 10x more entertaining.

As dookdookdook above said, try writing a comic about the same group of 2-5 core characters for over 30 years and see how fresh and entertaining you manage to keep it, go ahead, I'll wait.

Six_By_Nine		2012-12-13 10:03:49 PM

dahmers love zombie: I have a serious love for the Garfield minus Garfield webcomic, and last Sunday's Garfield was set up so perfectly that I couldn't wait for G-G to do it, so I did it myself. I really like it.

[i.imgur.com image 599x417]

Well, there goes my ability to sleep, and my husband's. I'm going to be giggling about this half the night.

And then I share this with coworkers in the morning.

ScotterOtter		2012-12-13 10:37:19 PM

I loved Garfield as a kid. Now, I look at it and realize Garfield is just a complete a-hole

robsul82		2012-12-13 11:01:12 PM

FUMBLE

Bengals in the Eagles RZ

robsul82		2012-12-13 11:01:47 PM

Wrong tab. By a lot. Sorry, Garfield people.

Fano		2012-12-13 11:08:45 PM

Fo Shiz		2012-12-13 11:10:08 PM

Heathcliff is the Andy Capp of animal comics.

gbv23		2012-12-13 11:18:35 PM

He sure does love lasagna

AcneVulgaris		2012-12-13 11:19:18 PM

MorePeasPlease		2012-12-13 11:25:08 PM

Wayne 985		2012-12-13 11:44:29 PM

A lot of wedged panties in this thread. I laughed out loud when I read his quip.

Smackledorfer		2012-12-13 11:57:00 PM

Of all the comics you all may hate, why the laser focus on garfield?

Aside from it being the topic of the thread.

RevMercutio		2012-12-13 11:57:50 PM

To be fair, Davis farmed out the production of Garfield to his corporation long ago.

tinyarena		2012-12-13 11:59:10 PM

robsul82: FUMBLE
Bengals in the Eagles RZ

robsul82: Wrong tab. By a lot. Sorry, Garfield people.

No no, we love the Bangles too
www.solveisraelsproblems.com

rmcooper4		2012-12-14 12:09:11 AM

Cowkitchen2: I've run into Jim Davis around town several times. Nice guy I don't care for Garfield, but my 9-year-old loves it.

Oooh, a rare Muncie Farker?

/BSU grad.
//Have a soft spot for the place.
///Mostly miss the Heorot.

Fano		2012-12-14 12:15:51 AM

RevMercutio: To be fair, Davis farmed out the production of Garfield to his corporation long ago.

One does have to admire the business savvy of this. Bill Watterson on one pole, Jim Davis on the other.

GreatGlavinsGhost		2012-12-14 02:25:33 AM

St_Francis_P: Big deal. Someone sneezing is funnier than any Garfield comic strip.

Not necessarily.
images2.wikia.nocookie.net

Sobekneferu		2012-12-14 04:43:30 AM

dahmers love zombie: I have a serious love for the Garfield minus Garfield webcomic, and last Sunday's Garfield was set up so perfectly that I couldn't wait for G-G to do it, so I did it myself. I really like it.

There was a predecessor to the Garfield Minus Garfield, that I actually liked better, where Garfield was still included but all of his dialogue removed. It actually very much resembled life with a cat; cat sits there for 2 or three panels, then Jon comes out and screams something at the cat, who continues to sit there silently, starting at him for two or three more panels.

God-is-a-Taco		2012-12-14 06:21:54 AM

Link
4 years later, still not a full million views. That's why democracy doesn't work.

taliesinwi		2012-12-14 06:52:15 AM

Sobekneferu: dahmers love zombie: I have a serious love for the Garfield minus Garfield webcomic, and last Sunday's Garfield was set up so perfectly that I couldn't wait for G-G to do it, so I did it myself. I really like it.

There was a predecessor to the Garfield Minus Garfield, that I actually liked better, where Garfield was still included but all of his dialogue removed. It actually very much resembled life with a cat; cat sits there for 2 or three panels, then Jon comes out and screams something at the cat, who continues to sit there silently, starting at him for two or three more panels.

THANK YOU. I thought I was the only one who remembered that. Everyone else I know knows G-G and that's it.

ryarger		2012-12-14 07:13:00 AM

dookdookdook: Holy crap, Internet, Garfield isn't THAT bad. Yes, it's stale and repetitive these days compared to its best years, but when you first create a comic strip, you don't ask yourself if the characters are deep enough to give you 10,000+ strips worth of fresh material.

Go to the archives on Garfield.com and search around randomly through the late 80's - mid 90's to see what Garfield used to be like.

Garfield is, by design, not THAT bad, and that's my problem with it. Davis' genius was in calculating the perfect spot of in offensiveness that would be acceptable to everyone.

Schulz took nihilism and made it art; Larson took absurdity and made it art; Watterson took joy and made it art.

Davis took blandness and made it art, but that's not art that I can appreciate like the others.