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Happy birthday, Garfield (Insteresting article on cartooning today)
indystar.com/ ^
Posted on 06/22/2003 7:02:45 AM PDT by chance33_98
Edited on 05/07/2004 6:26:49 PM PDT by Jim Robinson.
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The comic strip "Garfield" turns 25 today, still enormously popular and at the same time a throwback.
Other than some changes in the characters' appearance, the strip has stayed the same since its debut in 1978.
But the rest of the comics landscape has changed drastically. What were once the "funnies" are now often outspoken and controversial.
(Excerpt) Read more at indystar.com ...
TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cartoons; garfield; happybirthday
To: chance33_98
Just in case any of you missed the thread about a new cartoon strip a few months ago, this is the up-and-coming strip for us on the right.
http://www.daybydaycartoon.com/ It's not yet up to the standards of Mallrd but there are moments of definite brilliance.
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posted on
06/22/2003 7:10:07 AM PDT
by
x1stcav
( HOOAHH!)
To: chance33_98
My wife hates Garfield but loves "Get Fuzzy," about another single guy with an obnoxious cat and dog. I don't like Garfield either, but I have often pointed out that Garfield's owner at least eats meat and dates a girl now and then. I have to wonder about the other guy.
To: chance33_98
Boondocks and Mallard Filmore preach to their own choirs.
Doonesbury as morphed into the Maureen Dowd of comics.
Garfield still can make everybody laugh.
To: chance33_98
June 19th's strip:
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:49:40 AM PDT
by
mwyounce
To: Semper Paratus
Boondocks and Mallard Filmore preach to their own choirs.The main difference being that Mallard Filmore is done by a sane person. Boondocks seems to be done by one of those paranoid socialist losers over at DU.com.
To: chance33_98
Mallard Filmore is a ham handed embarrassment.
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posted on
06/22/2003 10:05:10 AM PDT
by
Maceman
To: Larry Lucido
Get Fuzzy is the best cartoon out there!
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:13:59 PM PDT
by
NYCVirago
To: mwyounce
I hope Garfield goes another 25! He's the only thing worth opening the funny pages for, other than reading the teen angst of "Luanne."
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:20:36 PM PDT
by
kstewskis
(Long live Garfield!)
To: Larry Lucido
John actually went on a *gasp* date?? Wow, it's amazine what happens when I don't read the funnies for a decade.
(BTW, how can anyone not like Garfield??)
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:24:14 PM PDT
by
FourPeas
To: FourPeas
Let's not forgetB.C. by Johnny Hart. he even dared to mention religion. Always one of my favorites !!
To: Larry Lucido
I adore Garfield. I even named my cat Nermal (the world's cutest kitten), but he actually has more of a Garfield disposition. I can totally relate to his appreciation of a simple, albeit lazy, life.
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:39:02 PM PDT
by
sweetliberty
("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
To: chance33_98
Happy Birthday, Garfield!
Hobbes is more my idea of a cartoon cat, though.
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posted on
06/22/2003 8:49:37 PM PDT
by
Mark Turbo
(The saga continues.)
To: FourPeas
John actually went on a *gasp* date?? Actually, several. Of course, like Dilbert's dates, they were typically disastrous, but at least we knew he liked girls!
And if I remember, Garfield's vet was quite hot, but I don't think John was ever able to talk her into going out.
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