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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!
Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness
Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield
The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works
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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A century later people are going to find Garfield comics and insist that there must have been some hidden message or that there was some sort of cult around it for it to be as popular as it was, cause on its face it's idiotic.
I like to think about that stuff when I'm watching a documentary and historians are like "We don't know what this item was used for. Maybe religious? Or a rite of passage?" I was thinking maybe it was like the beanie babies of it's day and some of them survived.
Now with everything being a meme and a reference within a reference. If only part of the internet survives somehow. It might be more confusing to decipher than the Rosetta Stone. Just think about that old Donnie Darko website, loss memes about loss, eating beans, skibidi toilet, and maybe throw in a few goatse, and emulator pages. Maybe some fanfic of Roswell, Buffy, or your show of choice. I think if that was all that survived, then I would like to hear what historians would think of us.
Also, the future historians will know what killed us. So they'll say: "Despite their world ending around them due to [ climate change / economic inequality / lack of water / microplastics / ... ], they remained obsessed with cartoons and their anuses."
Haha. That is true. We are probably going to be a cautionary tale. Hopefully someone will learn from our mistakes.