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This reminds be of the great Garfield minus Garfield (The standard strip, but with Garfield removed): http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ http://garfieldminusgarf

This reminds be of the great Garfield minus Garfield (The standard strip, but with Garfield removed): http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/ It's actually brilliant - Apparently J. Davis loves + approves of it too - says it bought a whole new perspective to his work.

alaskamiller 18y ago
The guy that made that stole it from someone else and is getting a book deal out of it.
- almost 18y ago
  Posting a message like that without supplying references or evidence just seems wrong.
  - halo 18y ago
    I'm not saying he stole it, but it is a fairly natural extension of older ideas. The Garfield Randomizer, which randomised panels from Garfield strips, came out sometime in 2005, then the idea of removing Garfield's speech bubbles from the comics appeared on Truth and Beauty Bombs forum in January 2006 along with a few variants. Garfield Minus Garfield came February 2008. It doesn't seem to matter who has an idea anymore. Free-spirited exchange of ideas eventually seems to give way to whoever can market themselves the best in order to extract the cash out of those ideas, whether it's CollegeHumor, Ebaumsworld or I Can Haz Cheezburger.
    - unalone 18y ago
      Don't forget the strip Arbuckle, which used the same idea a long time ago. And the first G-G strips weren't originals, they were plucked from the Internet. Kind of worrisome that G-G is what passes for genius online nowadays. It's clever, it's humorous, but it's a one-off joke that got old really fast. No?
maw 18y ago
See also the <a href="http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/ http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/">Nietzsche Family Circus</a>.
- unalone 18y ago
  You might want to check out http://scottmeetsfamilycircus.tumblr.com/ http://scottmeetsfamilycircus.tumblr.com/ in that case. Quite funny.
scott_s 18y ago
Jim Davis says he approves, but stealing from one Jeremy Parsih, http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew/archives/archive_2008-m08.php#e740 http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew/archives/archive_2008-m0...: "Then again, Davis is a shrewd businessman above all else. I guess it's possible he appreciates someone's poking holes in his life work in creative ways, but more likely he simply realized that letting someone publish a book that transforms his comic into depressing absurdism is the holiest of grails: A means by which to sell Garfield to people who hate Garfield."

alaskamiller 18y ago

The guy that made that stole it from someone else and is getting a book deal out of it.

almost 18y ago
Posting a message like that without supplying references or evidence just seems wrong.
- halo 18y ago
  I'm not saying he stole it, but it is a fairly natural extension of older ideas. The Garfield Randomizer, which randomised panels from Garfield strips, came out sometime in 2005, then the idea of removing Garfield's speech bubbles from the comics appeared on Truth and Beauty Bombs forum in January 2006 along with a few variants. Garfield Minus Garfield came February 2008. It doesn't seem to matter who has an idea anymore. Free-spirited exchange of ideas eventually seems to give way to whoever can market themselves the best in order to extract the cash out of those ideas, whether it's CollegeHumor, Ebaumsworld or I Can Haz Cheezburger.
  - unalone 18y ago
    Don't forget the strip Arbuckle, which used the same idea a long time ago. And the first G-G strips weren't originals, they were plucked from the Internet. Kind of worrisome that G-G is what passes for genius online nowadays. It's clever, it's humorous, but it's a one-off joke that got old really fast. No?

maw 18y ago

See also the <a href="http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/ http://www.losanjealous.com/nfc/">Nietzsche Family Circus</a>.

unalone 18y ago
You might want to check out http://scottmeetsfamilycircus.tumblr.com/ http://scottmeetsfamilycircus.tumblr.com/ in that case. Quite funny.

scott_s 18y ago

Jim Davis says he approves, but stealing from one Jeremy Parsih, http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew/archives/archive_2008-m08.php#e740 http://www.gamespite.net/verbalspew/archives/archive_2008-m0...: "Then again, Davis is a shrewd businessman above all else. I guess it's possible he appreciates someone's poking holes in his life work in creative ways, but more likely he simply realized that letting someone publish a book that transforms his comic into depressing absurdism is the holiest of grails: A means by which to sell Garfield to people who hate Garfield."