The death of Garfield?
Created on: August 2nd, 2006
The death of Garfield?
An examination of a really f*cked up series of Garfield cartoons from 1989. These are 100% legit. EDIT: ok, thanks to everyone confirming the veracity of these strips.

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August 2nd, 2006
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i can confirm they are real.
March 27th, 2007
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is garfield dead? it's a metaphor idjiot
January 7th, 2008
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I can confirm noone gives a sh*t that you confirm.
January 7th, 2008
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Argh, sh*tty ytmnd resurrection.
January 7th, 2008
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EVERY FRICKIN' THING ON WIKIPEDIA IS TRUE!
January 7th, 2008
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I wrote to Jim Davis a year ago about these. This is his reply: It was Halloween, and I wanted to play with everyone's biggest fear, being alone...I felt that, that was scarier than ghosts and rattling chains. Also, if you go back and look at other years, he sometimes does themed weeks for Halloween and other holidays.
January 7th, 2008
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I remember these from a collection I read while growing up, I never understood and truly didn't read the last two because they were just not funny nor interesting. However Jim Davis said he found the idea of Garfield imagining future strips while starving to death laughable: http://www.boingboing.net/2006/08/09/death-of-garfield-my.html
January 8th, 2008
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Well of COURSE they are real. Paws Inc hires about a bijillion unknown graduates of that art school where you draw the pirate and the turtle, chains them in a basement, and forces them to draw idiotic jokes about Mondays and Lasagna so that Jim Davis can LIVE IMMORTALLY.
January 8th, 2008
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Of course, this PARTICULAR series was during summer break, when all they could find was Canadian artist Dave Sim...
January 8th, 2008
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yea summer break in october...
February 26th, 2008
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user below me is gay.
February 26th, 2008
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Oh, different artist, that explains it. I was wondering why entire rooms were being drawn, why Garfield was shown from various angles, and generally why this wasn't the usual copy/paste-change-world-bubbles that Jim Davis normally uses. Lazy bastard.
February 26th, 2008
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GARFIELD IS DEAD........................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................LANDO IS NOT
February 26th, 2008
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"Allegro non troppo" anyone?
February 27th, 2008
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16th
February 27th, 2008
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I can confirm that my c*ck is huge.
February 28th, 2008
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old ytmnd is old. but apparently i already voted on it 2 years ago.
April 24th, 2008
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I'm writing to the past. Dear 2005, Gas prices will climb to four dollars a gallon. Heath Ledger and Anna Nicole Smith will die from a drug overdose. Transformers will suck. Remember Democratic vice presidential hopeful John McCain? He's a running as a Republican now. Britney Spears and Tom Cruise will go batsh*t. YTMND will be purchased by Viacom and become YTMNV. Stamps will last forever. Jesus comes back... also c*cks
April 24th, 2008
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i can confirm that my penis is soft due to the epic f*ggotry and fail this YTMND exudes
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judged
August 2nd, 2008
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The comics may be real, but is Garfield dead? I don't know - but I take everything wikipedia says with a pinch of salt.
August 3rd, 2008
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this ytmnd does not cater to those who read slow. 1star
February 10th, 2009
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This YTMND cannot fade into obscurity can it?
August 24th, 2009
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They are real, I have the book. Isnt it just a Rip Van Winkle referance though. He slept his life away, or at least he dreamed he did.
August 24th, 2009
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August 24th, 2009
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garfield takes up space, his 20th book
October 18th, 2009
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ya if u go to the offical garfield site and dearch the dates theyll b found
August 2nd, 2006
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^^ awesome, thanks for confirmation.
August 2nd, 2008
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WAYT WUT R POINTING AT??? THOSE EMBEDDED COMMENTS????
August 2nd, 2006
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They're real, I have those at home
August 2nd, 2006
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you suck much cock
August 2nd, 2006
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also reminds me i need to pick up the Twilight Singers album.
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Wow, I've never seen this before, those comics are freaky. Thanks for the presentation!
August 2nd, 2006
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he isnt dead you silly goose
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*tear* Those like completely ruined my day...
August 2nd, 2006
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NEDM
April 19th, 2008
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NETSM
August 2nd, 2006
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As real as those are.. it still doesnt make sense how he got there.
August 2nd, 2006
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hhmm, happy cat will not be amused. but i never really liked garfield so 5'd for his apparent death though he seemed alive in those god awful films.
August 2nd, 2006
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orginal and well put together earns you a 5.
August 2nd, 2006
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i would have fived this, but it takes f*cking forever to get to the point, you don't need five title cards at ten seconds apiece
August 2nd, 2006
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nedm...:'-(
August 2nd, 2006
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slightly too fast.
August 2nd, 2006
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this is so very strange :'(
August 2nd, 2006
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These are very old, so I am gonna say no, he isn't dead.
August 2nd, 2006
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I ate a pea for your CACK kkk ja pee meee enfkjdnskljfnakldsnfk;nsd;ak
August 2nd, 2006
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While Garfield has polevaulted over the shark, any theories that he's "really" dead are just that, theories. And yes thats a real line of strips. It apparently scared so many of his readers that Davis never did anything so creative again. A shame.
February 27th, 2008
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Oh no! I ordered french fries with my haunted hamburger
August 2nd, 2006
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"though he seemed alive in those god awful films." Where is the real ghost of Garfield to destroy every copy of those horrible movies. If any Hollywood execs are reading this DO NOT TURN OLD CARTOONS INTO LIVE ACTION!
January 7th, 2008
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Here he comes, here comes Speed Racer!
August 2nd, 2006
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music was so horrible and distracting I had to close it
August 2nd, 2006
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let's hope he is...
August 2nd, 2006
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BEES
August 2nd, 2006
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I can confirm they are real, I remember reading them in the paper :D But wow, Wikipedia is WRONG. I followed Garfield untill the mid 1990's when it started to suck, and let me enlighten all: In the beginning, Jim Davis tried to run his comic like For Better or For worse, and have various plots to follow, subtle meanings, ect... Remember Nermal? Layman? Ed? Garfield's mom? Anyway, early in the series, Garfield runs away from home, and really does come close to starving to death, but he just happens
August 2nd, 2006
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NEDM?
August 2nd, 2006
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?MDEN
August 2nd, 2006
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to meet his mother and father, who take care of him, and Garfield Mentions how his week of starvation has changed him forever... And he eventually gets home, and every once in a while after that untill Jim Davis turned into a pathetic sell out, if you watch closely you can see he tries to allude back to Garfield and his trauma, and that's what this is, except the most blatant... Davis was trying to get people to realize how important the things we take for granted- food, water, loving family, really are.
August 2nd, 2006
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The text kinda falshed too fast for me to read it all ^^;
August 2nd, 2006
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funnier than Jim Davis
August 2nd, 2006
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you ass. now i'm strangely depressed. but nice job anyway 0_o
August 2nd, 2006
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Hey now, I'm a silly goose, and I say those are intriguing strips. But the most recent story line with the Liz Jon relationship pretty effectively counters any near death delusion explanation. The same may hold true for Lost.
August 2nd, 2006
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NEDM. That would explain why the movie was such a huge failure.
August 2nd, 2006
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I can also confirm that it isn't fake...
August 2nd, 2006
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Great and insightful presentation.
August 2nd, 2006
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I actually have the original book where those came from o_O
August 2nd, 2006
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man thats depressing...Jim Davis must have been having a hard time with Orsn the Pig and Wade the Duck
August 2nd, 2006
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Garfield is awesome, but yeah. Real.
August 2nd, 2006
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And aye. Garfield was indeed a great strip in the early years.
August 2nd, 2006
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Wow, those comics are strange. Great presentation.
August 2nd, 2006
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"this is a dream..."
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember these strips.
August 2nd, 2006
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wow research ... That sent shivers down my spine.
August 2nd, 2006
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Yup, 100% real. I don't really get it though. Very nice YTMND, very nice theory.
August 2nd, 2006
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you fail because they are real
August 2nd, 2006
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It's pretty obvious that he was imagining the whole thing. Jim Davis actually did a lot of these within the series, where Garfield let his imagination go a little too far. So no, he is a alive, healthy, and still funny.
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember those comics too, I used to buy the Garfield books and they're in one of them. As for the theory on wikipedia.. bunk.
August 2nd, 2006
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In any case, I wish he were dead.
August 2nd, 2006
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These were the comics Jim Davis created after his cat, who inspired the stip, died.
November 10th, 2007
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Garfield isn't based on any Cat Jim Davis owned. In fact, Ironicly I don't think Jim Davis has even owned a cat.
August 2nd, 2006
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GREAT
August 2nd, 2006
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The comic was to show that imagination is a powerful tool. as long as garfield use his imagination he lives a good life, but the strip was made in halloween
August 2nd, 2006
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1'd for fake.
August 2nd, 2006
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garfield? DYING?! NEDM!!
August 2nd, 2006
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1'd for who f*cking cares about garfield
August 2nd, 2006
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i do
August 2nd, 2006
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Couldn't stand the music =/ and first glance, I wouldn't find them depressing. Reinforcing that people need their families was important in the late 80's.
August 2nd, 2006
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1978!
August 2nd, 2006
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It was a dream sequence you moron
August 2nd, 2006
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I like Garfield
August 2nd, 2006
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Who reads garfield? WHERE ARE THE ORIGINAL GOOD YTMND'S
August 2nd, 2006
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I have that series of comics in a garfield book somewhere. Garfield used to actually be pretty funny around this era...now its just lame.
August 2nd, 2006
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I think it was pretty clear that it was all his over-active imagination. But +4 for finding a few Garfield strips with more resonence and storytelling than the rest of them combined.
August 2nd, 2006
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That's f*cking crazy.
August 2nd, 2006
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Oh man, f*ck you. This was the most depressing thing ever. I'm leaving this unvoted.
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I think Jim Davis was trying to be profound, by teaching his readers about imagination and taking things for granted....deep.
January 7th, 2008
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Either that or he was tripping acid and listening to Pink Floyd albums.
August 2nd, 2006
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that was amazing
August 2nd, 2006
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I liked Garfield. The movies sucked dick though.
August 2nd, 2006
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Yes, they are real. I remember reading these when I was but a little kid, and being like... o_O
August 2nd, 2006
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f*ck, where the hell was the NEDM? I'm really upset now.
August 2nd, 2006
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Yeah, I found those in a garfield book I had when I was a kid and never really "got" them.
August 2nd, 2006
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whoa.
August 2nd, 2006
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definetly real
August 2nd, 2006
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HOLY sh*t
August 2nd, 2006
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1 for those first 'intro' frames. The reason for the description is so we dont have to wait 30 to 60 seconds to see real content.
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember the strips where he was lost and found his parents. Still, this was depressing as hell. Thanks a lot. :(
August 2nd, 2006
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fascinating!
August 2nd, 2006
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O_O -_- O_O -_- O_O -_- -_- -_- -_- -_-
August 2nd, 2006
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I dont care too much for garfield.
August 2nd, 2006
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F'd up! Also 5'd.
August 2nd, 2006
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he's a comic, he was never real. can't have death without life.
August 2nd, 2006
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I'm sad..
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember reading those, I had a book that that them actualy, they didnt really confuse me, i thought it was just supposed to be a melodramatic play or somthing 4rd, I liked it
August 2nd, 2006
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I dont get it. 2/5
August 2nd, 2006
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I love Garfield. I read the whole wiki section about these strips and I think it was just a dream. But I can't be certain. I hope it is, cause I'll never be able to read Garfield again if it's not.
August 2nd, 2006
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Garfield could prolly survive on his body fat for at 9 years plus he has nine lives. 5'd nice job man
August 2nd, 2006
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These comics really makes me sad, and the music fits....did I mention that it makes me really depressed?
August 2nd, 2006
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wow, to think I spent these years reading garfield to think its just a dillusion. this is some trippy sh*t.
August 2nd, 2006
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Nope, he's alive. Over here we've got newspapers with a fresh strip of Garfield coming out every weekday.
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Not Even Twilight Singers Music could justify a starving Garfield. But since Garfield is such an annoying bastard, I bet it could.
August 2nd, 2006
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Garfield is an inanimate cartoon, lol, he cant die. :D
August 2nd, 2006
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strange but change the music to a band that doesnt suck
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember these comics appearing in the paper, and I guess that my innocent child mind didn't assume that he had died.
August 2nd, 2006
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NERM!1 Not Even Random Music can justify starving Garfield! Well...Maybe plot twists can...
August 2nd, 2006
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NEDM
August 2nd, 2006
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interesting
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember reading these in the newspaper. Interestingly put, but not much of a YTMND. Woulda' gave it a 3 if not for the noone likes Garfield bit.
August 2nd, 2006
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I grew up with Jim Davis' son, and when those strips ran, Jim's cat that he modeled after Garfield died earlier that year. He ran those to pay homage to the real Garfield. Nice job.
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember this strip, saw it in one of the compilations. I don't believe that Garfield is dead. I do believe however that this strip was trying to do something with the Garfield series it hadn't done before and that was to humanize Garfield. It showed a deeper side to the orange cat and not only did it point out his greatest fear, but it did point out one of the largest problems apparent in the cat population, being abandoned. It was a great strip and I wish Jim Davis didn't let his strip get so mediocu
August 2nd, 2006
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Bah, obviously proven to be fake, 1'd...
August 2nd, 2006
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Nah, j/k :D
August 2nd, 2006
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I was expecting a series of photochops depicting Garfield being burnt to death a la the NEDM cat. Fairly depressing.
August 2nd, 2006
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wow...thats deep...
August 2nd, 2006
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i f*cking hate garfield
August 2nd, 2006
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Unfortunately, that's about as funny as Garfield gets.
August 2nd, 2006
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how very weird
August 2nd, 2006
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I use to follow The Big Picture comic strip. His cat really did die and he depicted her death in the strip. He was able to go on one week, but being so devestated, he cancelled the strip.
August 2nd, 2006
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dude, that scared the living sh*t out of me...
August 2nd, 2006
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Those remind me of the book "The 9 Lives of Garfield", where Garfield lives out and dies 9 times in alternate realities. The message in those strips is similar to one of the lives where he dies in space.
January 7th, 2008
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OMG you made me remember seeing that cartoon on tv as a kid where Garfield lives different lives or something... It was like a Christmas special or a short animated feature. Or a movie? Uh, anyway... Depressing as F*CK! Now I remember why I never liked Garfield. ='(
August 2nd, 2006
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People are really mean to say that nobody really likes Garfield. It's a cool comic. If these mean Jim Davis is going to stop making Garfield, I blame these people. Buttmunchers. Garfield rocks.
August 2nd, 2006
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NEDM :(
August 2nd, 2006
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Not using NEDM when it is expected seems to be a new fad.
August 2nd, 2006
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Correction on my part: "Garfield: His 9 Lives" Most of the themes revolve around the life lived, and few focus on death, yet it is most obvious that these are all different lives, complete with birth and death, featured or no.
August 2nd, 2006
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dude i remeber that set of comics, i thought it was f*cked up
August 2nd, 2006
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interesting...
August 2nd, 2006
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wow. eerie
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember finding these among my dad's stuff one day, he must have clipped and saved them. I have to say that's some freaky stuff, but I like it. Too bad Garfield has sucked in recent years.
August 2nd, 2006
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Much better than the strips sh*t out these days. A break from what you are used to, it's interesting to see something depressing in a comic that was mainly upbeat and humorous
August 2nd, 2006
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f*ck you for saying "nobody likes Garfield" (yes, the movies were godawful, I didn't waste my money, but the comic strips could be rpetty neat. And the children's novels about them being a superhero team). Interesting though, and nice presentation, even if it is a little too fast. Unvoted for the sh*tty smack at Garfield at the beginning, though. Or else this would get a 4 or a 5 I guess.
August 2nd, 2006
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... :O
August 2nd, 2006
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Sounds like either Donnie Darko ripped off Garfield, or it's a hoax based off of Donnie Darko. Seeing as Wiki can easily be edited, I wouldn't be suprised if it's the latter because Donnie Darko is good...but Garfield is awful painfully unfunny.
August 2nd, 2006
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i hope so...garfield isnt funny
August 2nd, 2006
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f*ggy short film
August 2nd, 2006
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It's just saying the imagination is a powerful tool with a message to not take life for granted.
August 2nd, 2006
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I have the local papers kept from that series. However, just because Jim Davis wanted to explore a new story and theme...Garfield did not die. I love the style he used. Much better inking than what you see now. Garfield in the 80's was extremely popular...it just has had it's time pass like nearly all entertainment does.
August 2nd, 2006
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I remember the cartoon having a lot of pretty strange stuff too. Even though I've never really liked Garfield, it's nice to see that this had an important message to say in it. Also nothing justifies starving cats to death, not even Doom music!
August 2nd, 2006
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...saddest thing...ever...
August 2nd, 2006
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They're real, I remember reading them out of a Garfield book and not getting them at all. I've never thought of them meaning that Garfield is dead. Now that I think about it, I probably have the book with those strips, I'll go check.
August 2nd, 2006
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why the f*ck wasn't this an NEDM?
August 2nd, 2006
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Of course he's f*cking dead. Garfield's been around since 1978. Cats don't live for 28 years.
August 2nd, 2006
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Good show, good show.... Poor Garfield....those were rather sombering. I wonder if I'm the only one out there who still likes theis strip..
August 2nd, 2006
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wow
August 2nd, 2006
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That was the most depressing... but interesting.
August 2nd, 2006
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Spoiler: It was a dream
August 2nd, 2006
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I like Garfield...
August 2nd, 2006
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wtf, i love garfield comics. he didn't die it was just a dream.
August 2nd, 2006
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Nicely done. You must be very gay.
August 2nd, 2006
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I like Garfield... but not the movies... anywho... SEVIL DLEIFRAG!
August 2nd, 2006
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The only reason people don't like people Garfield is cause Maddox doesn't like Garfield. And as we all know, everyone is a slave to that whore.
January 7th, 2008
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http://www.thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=garfield_sucks
August 2nd, 2006
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Needs more NEDM ... but beyond that ... sad and weird.
August 2nd, 2006
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That was interesting - I never saw that run of Garfield, but then again, I don't like Garfield.... good work, sir.
August 2nd, 2006
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I think I just died a little on the inside
August 2nd, 2006
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Who careS?
August 2nd, 2006
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Hmm. Then that actually makes the current comics morbidly amusing. The delusions of a dying maddened cat. Not Even Fancy Feast! NEFF.
August 2nd, 2006
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wheres all the blood and body parts and bombs, garfield blows
August 2nd, 2006
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All I have to say is those are really odd for a garfield comic :-o
August 2nd, 2006
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It's too bad that Garfield doesn't have such great depth anymore.
August 2nd, 2006
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TOO BAD THIS THEORY IS FALSE. The comic strip even says that noone has lived in the house for years and Garfield confirms that must also means he hasn't lived there either. So if he was completely non-existant during this time, then how could he have starved to death. It's a dream fools. But this would be nice if it was true.
August 2nd, 2006
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superbe
August 2nd, 2006
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I use to have a bunch of garfield books. now they really suck peanuts > garfield by far and i have this strip in the collection i have. btw i have alot of friends who love garfied and we are going to gank up on you noob
August 2nd, 2006
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I use to have a bunch of garfield books. now they really suck peanuts > garfield by far and i have this strip in the collection i have. btw i have alot of friends who love garfied and we are going to gank up on you noob
August 2nd, 2006
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I didn't think the author of "Garfield" was into the whole reality isn't reality fad.
August 2nd, 2006
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would have 5'd if you just posted the strips, not make a f*ggy short film of it all
August 2nd, 2006
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Garfield is still surviving off of fat stores and Thai hookers.
August 2nd, 2006
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garfield: not dead. not real.
August 2nd, 2006
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Considering that Garfield has a constand godmode cheat on, you fail...
August 2nd, 2006
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This gave me the willies :[
August 2nd, 2006
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1989 coincides about with the time that garfield got way overmarketed, and became soulless and humorless. So yeah, Garfield died but the brand lives on.
August 2nd, 2006
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-2 for the music
August 2nd, 2006
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VERDICT: Who cares if Garfield is dead? I don't. Never was a funny strip.
August 2nd, 2006
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NEDM
August 2nd, 2006
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that was amazing. and quite depressing, yes.
August 2nd, 2006
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Amazing find. I can't believe these strips slipped by me as a Garfield crazed kid. On the contrary I'd have to say that these comics represent a "birth" of Garfield in the sense that they're so unique and interesting - even poignant. Y'know, aside from that whole "starving to death" theory. (which is misconstrued IMO) Jim Davis was onto something, he should attempt angles like this again.
August 2nd, 2006
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Look at all these NEDM f*gs.
August 2nd, 2006
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Dholy sh*t! Jim davis had a moment of intellillilligencencence! Nice find.
August 2nd, 2006
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Considering Garfield stopped being "funny" (if you can call it that) in the early 90's, and the strip has been on autopilot since then- yes, Garfield is dead.
August 2nd, 2006
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Hmm, i think it shows how bad you need friends. Not starving. (5'd for cat's, minus 1 for no NEDM.)
August 2nd, 2006
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Seen this before. But 1'd for the song.
August 2nd, 2006
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GARFIELD IS NOT DEAD garfieldisntdead.ytmnd.com
August 2nd, 2006
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Holy sh*t, I COMPLETELY expected NEDM to appear at the end... and then it didn't. I guess that's a good thing. :-P Interesting though... that's not anything like the garfield comics I've seen throughout the year.s
August 2nd, 2006
(1)
very trippy, considering that I used to love watch the Garfied and Friends cartoon when I was little
August 2nd, 2006
(1)
interesting
August 2nd, 2006
(1)
This needs to go back in Up and Coming.
August 2nd, 2006
(0)
Not even Bonnie Brae music justifies starving your cat
August 2nd, 2006
(1)
I think that bit at the end, about how your imagination can be a dream or a nightmare, thats what Davis leaves you with. Depending on who you are, you either see his lonliness as a nightmare, or his waking up from it a dream. Either the good is a delusion or the bad is. Thats why these are so cool. I'm morbid, so he's totally dead.
August 2nd, 2006
(0)
The more I watch this, the more emptier I get. In all honesty, he's not real, but it's just so sad. Garfield isn't rotting away in house. He's sat on his happy fat *ss eating lasagne. Yay.
August 2nd, 2006
(0)
Wow, that Wiki theory is depressing as fawk. What's sadder though is that Garfield at one point actually HAD a point, and wasn't just garbage extruded out every Sunday.
August 2nd, 2006
(0)
i have them. theyre real
August 2nd, 2006
(0)
They are 100% real, We had that book in the school library. 'Tis a shame what Garfield has become.
August 2nd, 2006
(2)
3'd for lack of NEDM
August 2nd, 2006
(0)
Every now and then, Davis does seem to slip a little soul back into things. I mean, Jon finally got kissed on a date by a woman who wasn't psycho the other week.
August 2nd, 2006
(1)
I sort of remember that 9 lives book, that was kind of weird. And yeah, the music sucks. Needs NEDM, or in this case, Doom music might be appropriate... http://nedm-nermal.ytmnd.com/
August 2nd, 2006
(0)
:'( lol i know you said nobody really likes garfield, but i do....
August 3rd, 2006
(0)
Wow, I'm bloody crying from that... Garfield is my favourite of the Daily strips, that is ever since Farside was canceled... wow though, I never thought Id cry from garfield :(
August 3rd, 2006
(0)
stop crying because it's not true biatches.
August 3rd, 2006
(0)
5'd for really random conspiracy theory.
August 3rd, 2006
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Here's what I think Garfield has been being lazy and sitting around most of his life just grubbing around there and eating. He realizes that eating is not as important as spending time with the people he loves. Therefore implying to us that we should spend more time with our own family because time is ticking away and they will be gone soon or later.
August 3rd, 2006
(0)
creepy
August 3rd, 2006
(0)
Well, he's a cat, cat's live 16 years tops, i think the longest living cat ever was about thirty, but it looked like sh*t by then, and garfield hasn't aged a bit...hmm..it fits.
August 3rd, 2006
(0)
someone covered garfield in gasoline and lit him on fire, i saw the vid on myspace
August 3rd, 2006
(1)
Here is the link to the archives: http://www.garfield.com/comics/comics_archives_strip.html?1989-ga891023
August 3rd, 2006
(0)
thats pretty creepy
August 4th, 2006
(0)
i think he had some bad lasanga
August 4th, 2006
(1)
-1 for leaving with a cold feeling inside
August 4th, 2006
(0)
Imagine that. An artist creates a world renowned, celebrity like fictional character to teach others life lessons about family love and the power of the human mind. This world must be f*cked up. *Fart*
August 4th, 2006
(0)
You took too long to show me what I wanted to see. Also, he's just a cartoon character, who was used in these strips to demonstrate a philosophical point.
August 4th, 2006
(0)
When I was younger, I used to read the Garfield archives in those fat paperback copies - I read a bit over 10 years, until Davis got less involved and it sucked, I remember that strip - to me, as a kid, it was somewhat humorous, kind of parodying the Twilight Zone - has nothing to do with death, it's just placing Garfield in his house years after they're all gone, in order to show him what life would be like alone - or to show what will eventually become of his family, so he doesn't take it for granted.
August 4th, 2006
(0)
interesting; good presentation; i liked the music
August 4th, 2006
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He isn't dead. lol, his sh*tty *ss movie comes out this month.
August 4th, 2006
(0)
wow! a garfield comic that's actually interesting!
August 4th, 2006
(-1)
You're SOOOoooo EMO... The world isn't a sad place...! 1 star because you're a sad emo kid...
January 8th, 2008
(0)
"The world isn't a sad place" wait what?
August 4th, 2006
(0)
dude in the last f*cking comic it says the whole thing was his imagination. But Garfield wins
August 4th, 2006
(-1)
Not interesting; emo presentation; i hated the music
August 4th, 2006
(0)
he's not dead
August 4th, 2006
(0)
+5 for not taking the NEDM route...
August 4th, 2006
(1)
I expected NEDM.
August 4th, 2006
(0)
Ooooollldddd
August 4th, 2006
(0)
cheer up emo kid. I remember this comic
August 4th, 2006
(0)
Not even Doom music justifies starving a cat to death...LOL!
August 4th, 2006
(0)
People, the idea isn't that he's dead, but that he's slowly starving to death in an abandoned house, and that the past 20 years of comics have been his fevered imagination.
August 4th, 2006
(1)
Loved the music. Great presentation. Introduction neccessary to fully understand. f*ck you, downvoters.
August 4th, 2006
(0)
Hmmm..
August 4th, 2006
(0)
Wow... that totally makes you think eh?
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