Jim Davis, the creator of "Garfield," recently gave an interview to the Huffington Post in tandem with the release of the new "Garfield" holiday DVD collection. This got me thinking: Are we forgetting to appreciate some of Garfield's strange past? Though Garfield hit newspapers in 1978, he's taken something of a flogging on social media in recent years. He's not terribly cool to like, though I don't know a single person who didn't grow up on "Garfield" or at least own a Fat Cat 3-Pack. In fact, most millennials were probably introduced to the concept of sarcasm through Garfield. He's basically the Jay Leno of comic strips: a surefire comfort source that people remember and discard for its simplistic gimmicks. Mondays. Lasagna. Nermal. Repeat. "Garfield Without Garfield," an eerie deconstructed comic that revisited real "Garfield" comics, removed Garfield from every panel, and revealed the strip to be a sad tale...
- 11/8/2014
- by Louis Virtel
- Hitfix
Cats have invaded every corner of modern pop culture, from Internet memes to Taylor Swift's life—but there's one quintessential feline who's been a mainstay for generations. Jim Davis's Garfield has made lasagna and sarcasm synonymous with cats for over three decades, appearing in comics for 2,100 newspapers worldwide and 200 million readers (not to mention TV series and feature films). In a nostalgic reissue, Davis and his Garfield empire, Paws Inc., have compiled five Garfield holiday specials into one DVD: Garfield's Halloween Adventure, Garfield's Thanksgiving, A Garfield Christmas, Garfield on the Town, and Garfield in Paradise. To commemorate the occasion,...
- 11/4/2014
- by Teresa Jue
- EW.com - PopWatch
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