Stupid Design

Garfield is dead, and we have killed him.

Garfield is renowned for being the pinnacle of cookie-cutter comics, willingly sacrificing originality and intellect in order to craft the largest market presence. However, leave it to the internet to turn this mediocre strip into existential and surreal post-mo text. Three amazing sites:

Garfield Randomizer
This site randomly selects three different panels from the strip to create something both absurd and hilarious. One could spend days doing this.

Garfield without Thought Balloons
This thread from Truth and Beauty Bombs explores how Garfield becomes existential literature when the thought balloons are removed, recreating Jon Arbuckle as a lonely, desperate man who finds retreat from the world through his pets.My favorite:
Lasagna Cat
Garfield comic strips in live action, I kid you not. Garfield, Odie, and Jon all played in costume by actors, along with laugh track. That's not all. After the re-enactment is over, a tribute song (determined by date of strip) is played with a cut of all the action. Really, is doesn't get more post-modern then these videos.


Finally, I leave everyone with why Jim Davis is the man (in more ways than one).