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Garfield Minus Garfield

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775 points mike1o1 | 2 comments | 10 Apr 25 17:21 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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jf ◴[10 Apr 25 17:59 UTC] No.43646481[source]▶
Something that I find delightful about this project is that Jim Davis approves of it!

From Wikipedia: "Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, approved of the project, and an official Garfield book (also called Garfield Minus Garfield) was published by his company. It was mainly edited comics by Walsh, with some comics contributed by Davis."

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OnionBlender ◴[11 Apr 25 04:21 UTC] No.43650484[source]▶
How does Jim Davis feel about the Garfield Lovecraft stuff?
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1. vintermann ◴[11 Apr 25 04:38 UTC] No.43650561[source]▶
I don't think he's said, but he has written some shockingly creepy stories himself, like the Halloween special which suggests Jon died or moved out ages ago and Garfield is just hallucinating due to starvation and despair. He claimed he wrote it after a market survey indicating that loneliness is what people fear the most (this is a pattern with Davis - he always cheerfully claims he's just in it for the money whenever someone suggests he has any kind of artistic vision).

Or the one in "Garfield: his 9 lives" where a different incarnation of Garfield goes suddenly feral and kills the elderly woman owning him. Jim Davis didn't draw it, but he did script it!

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2. selcuka ◴[11 Apr 25 06:31 UTC] No.43651050[source]▶
For the curious:

https://screenrant.com/garfield-his-9-lives-primal-self-horr...