Mar 3, 2008 0
Garfield Minus Garfield
There are times when the Internet makes you want to run screaming from the room, clawing at your eyes.
There are times when the Internet is almost sublime.
This is one of those latter times.
Garfield Minus Garfield has a simple premise: remove Garfield from his own strips. What remains should be nonsensical and, most of the time, would be. With the main character absent, all elements of story should collapse. But what happens when you do it to a comic strip which has no story? In the words of the site’s creator:
Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.
Go. Go now. Revel in the black humor which arises from the corpse of the most non-offensive creation in existence.
-K


