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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Jim Davis is a) very loving bored of Garfield and b) a lot goonier than anyone would have ever assumed Garfield without Garfield is legitimately good and weird, and you can do it in your head.
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Its cool that he's got a good sense of humor about it but drat if you aren't the first person I've ever heard describe Jim Davis as edgy
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Apr 23, 2018 22:30
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There is a lot of distance between "Jim Davis is edgy" and "Jim Davis' creation 'Garfield' is edgy."
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Apr 23, 2018 22:33
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Jim Davis is a) very loving bored of Garfield and b) a lot goonier than anyone would have ever assumed I've heard that apparently in interviews he's said from the very beginning he was aiming to make something extremely simple that appealed to the lowest common denominator when he invented Garfield, and that he could do something smarter, or with more detailed art if he wanted to, but he knew that "Keep It Simple, Stupid" would be the best received. I sometimes believe it when you see little glimpses of his dark humor peek through the boredom, like that one story about how Garf is hallucinating Jon and Odie while slowly starving to death in an empty, abandoned house, or how apparently the last official appearance of Lyman occurred in a Halloween flash game on the official website in the 90s...where you could find him chained up in the basement of the house, and after that the site's faq referred to the gag as the official response of what happened to him... On the other hand, I've heard theories that the strip has been ghostwritten for some time and Davis just collects checks, which makes me wonder if these weird strips that pop up are frustrated ghost writers slipping them past the editor just to see if they can get away with it.
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Lemniscate Blue posted:There is a lot of distance between "Jim Davis is edgy" and "Jim Davis' creation 'Garfield' is edgy." Still Like come on. Also I thought it was generally understood that Davis hasn't actually worked on the comic strip itself since like the late 70s
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purple death ray posted:Its cool that he's got a good sense of humor about it but drat if you aren't the first person I've ever heard describe Jim Davis as edgy this is the second time in recent memory that a super unambiguous bestiality joke has shown up in Garfield
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Speaking of edgy comic cats, Heathcliff has gotten weird. https://theoutline.com/post/4084/the-internet-oddballs-who-think-the-heathcliff-comics-are-deep?zd=2&zi=eaforzdy
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Apr 23, 2018 22:46
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Jim Davis has always been up-front that the only reason he ever created Garfield was to sell him out to the highest bidder, which he did. I don't think he's ever been not-bored of his creation.
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mind the walrus posted:Jim Davis has always been up-front that the only reason he ever created Garfield was to sell him out to the highest bidder, which he did. I don't think he's ever been not-bored of his creation. He was a marketing professional and picked a bland cat cause more people like cats than any other animal and the blander it is, the less likely it is to cause offence. It was a planned business decision to, as you say, make money. He's like the anti-Watterson.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:11
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Finding out Jim Davis is edgy is like hearing that whoever writes Cathy hates chocolate.
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Solice Kirsk posted:Finding out Jim Davis is edgy is like hearing that whoever writes Cathy hates chocolate. Turns out the guy who made Crankshaft has a great sense of humor.
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Apr 23, 2018 23:42
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Outrail posted:How can you have three mothers? Let me introduce you to the documentary Steven Universe
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Even the guy who makes The Oatmeal, a cartoon so bland and cynically a vehicle for marketing that it is literally generated by SEO algorithms, did some comics about dogs even though they never do as well as cats simple because he was a dog owner and liked them more.
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his comics about dogs are the only sincere thing he produces and i like them
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:Jim Davis is a) very loving bored of Garfield No kidding!
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Gavrilo Princip posted:It's not ancephalaic though, it looks like some genetic whoopsy-doo just deleted system32.bab and this is the outcome. Unfortunate but it does happen.
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I don't know how involved Jim Davis was in the old Garfield and Friends cartoon but the fact that it exists proves he isn't bland because a bland person wouldn't have let Mark Evanier do all the things he did.
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I figured Jim Davis knows inoffensive lowest common denominator dreck makes money, but takes the opportunity to used it to make more interesting stuff when he has ideas and the opportunity.
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Ghost Leviathan posted:I figured Jim Davis knows inoffensive lowest common denominator dreck makes money, but takes the opportunity to used it to make more interesting stuff when he has ideas and the opportunity. The nine lives thing was decent
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Nissin Cup Nudist posted:Happy Deepwater Horizon Day everyone Blast of Confetti posted:ive heard of 4/20 blaze it but that's just ridiculous
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Now I'm wondering if Jim Davis does his real art under a pseudonym and just draws some insane underground comics about sadomasochistic cybernuns doing giraffe acid or something. The recurrent hints that there's something Weird going on behind the respectable bland facade that is Garfield are always interesting.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Now I'm wondering if Jim Davis does his real art under a pseudonym and just draws some insane underground comics about sadomasochistic cybernuns doing giraffe acid or something. The recurrent hints that there's something Weird going on behind the respectable bland facade that is Garfield are always interesting. https://io9.gizmodo.com/5914471/holy-crap-this-is-the-most-terrifying-garfield-strip-ever-published Edit: Ok, technically he didn't draw that stuff but he did publish it as a vaguely Garfield related story Dixville has a new favorite as of 11:47 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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Platystemon posted:Suddenly, a gust!
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LORD OF BOOTY posted:this is the second time in recent memory that a super unambiguous bestiality joke has shown up in Garfield Have you ever been around cats or cat people? Cats lick people. Cat people call it "kissing" when their disgusting little beasts run their tongues over you uninvited.
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barbecue at the folks posted:Now I'm wondering if Jim Davis does his real art under a pseudonym and just draws some insane underground comics about sadomasochistic cybernuns doing giraffe acid or something. The recurrent hints that there's something Weird going on behind the respectable bland facade that is Garfield are always interesting. According to Cracked, it's giraffe internal bodily fluids that get you high. Or was that urine?
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Dixville posted:https://io9.gizmodo.com/5914471/holy-crap-this-is-the-most-terrifying-garfield-strip-ever-published 
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I’m sorry to break ranks but Garfield is Cool, and Good, and he is my friend.  Although my favorite and criminally underused character is HHHEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY KIIIIIIIIDDDDDSSSSSSS! It’s Binky the Clown! *circus music*
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mind the walrus posted:That website gave my phone cancer Hmm well that's no good. I found this other link with the same strip, hopefully it's less cancery? https://flashbak.com/garfields-primal-self-when-the-cuddly-cartoon-cat-wanted-to-rip-your-throat-out-9160/ Edit: I feel guilty about posting but not contributing Funny Forums Quotes so here's this thing I laughed at: Raspberry Jam It In Me posted:actually, what if hitler had been homeless? i guess there might be situations where it's ok to poison a homeless person, i dunno i'm not a philosopher Dixville has a new favorite as of 15:06 on Apr 24, 2018 |
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barbecue at the folks posted:Now I'm wondering if Jim Davis does his real art under a pseudonym and just draws some insane underground comics about sadomasochistic cybernuns doing giraffe acid or something. The recurrent hints that there's something Weird going on behind the respectable bland facade that is Garfield are always interesting. he bankrolled and is creative director of the Lasagna Cat reboot
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Inexplicable Humblebrag posted:he bankrolled and is creative director of the Lasagna Cat reboot I think it’s telling that the only one that got taken down was the one telling people to send mail to Jim Davis and had the Paws Inc address.
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barbecue at the folks posted:sadomasochistic cybernuns doing giraffe acid or something. How is your mom, by the way?
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Sometimes it's both! I've seen posters in the ED forums complaining about some infinitely spergy detail of a plane under development while simultaneously claiming it's good that ED keeps blowing deadlines over and over again because it means that they're getting it right -- and they would rather have no plane at all than one that's simulated wrong!
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Sagebrush posted:Sometimes it's both! Source your quotes
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Sagebrush posted:Sometimes it's both! There are entire forums dedicated to erectile dysfunction?
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Trig Discipline posted:There are entire forums dedicated to erectile dysfunction? Why do you think Games exists
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Oh, well, that's super loving weird. Awful.APK seems to have put that post in the wrong thread.
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Well at least it wasn't the abortion thread
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Sagebrush posted:Sometimes it's both! Ah yeah, I remember, off the shoulder of Orion that one
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