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garfield minus garfield

09Jul08

Garfield may be America’s favorite fat orange cat, but is he really the reason so many of us like the popular comic strip? Garfield minus Garfield creator Dan Walsh has this to say:

“The one resounding piece of feedback I’ve received is that people feel Jon’s loneliness and desperation is just like theirs, but that his crazy antics makes them laugh at it,” Walsh, 32, writes in an e-mail. “Sometimes the world can feel like a pretty intimidating place, and it takes someone like Jon to remind you to lighten up and laugh at the hopelessness of it all.”

I read the entire archive this morning. It makes you look at Jim Davis’s Garfield in a new, darker light.