Posted on 11/12/2010 8:16:40 AM PST by Mr. Mojo
INDIANAPOLIS – Cartoonist Jim Davis apologized Thursday for a Garfield strip that some veterans may have found offensive.
The strip ran on Veterans Day in newspapers across the country. It shows a spider daring the pudgy orange cat to squash it. The spider tells Garfield that if he is killed, "they will hold an annual day of remembrance in my honor."
The final panel shows a spider-teacher asking its students if they know why spiders celebrate "National Stupid Day."
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Apology not accepted.
In Jim Davis’ defense, there’s only about 5 different Garfield comic strips and they are repeated in random order.
Apology accepted, Captain Needa.
Geez, I can’t imagine he did it on purpose.
They always apologize when they are caught out.
Let's see, there's the "spider squash," the "lasagne eat," the "Garfield sleep" ones. Have you seen others lately? Garfield stopped being funny over ten years ago.
Yawn.....zzzzzz
I always saw Garfield as rather unfunny, but also pretty apolitical...I’ve never sensed any kind of agenda in Jim Davis’ comics, though granted I haven’t been reading much of them over the past few years.
Given that he’s never worn his politics on his sleeve before, as a veteran myself, I’m willing to give him a pass here.
If it had been “Doonesbury” I certainly would certainly take offense.
Garfield was never funny.
Kick Odie?
There’s the one about his owner being really stupid and pathetic with the ladies. That runs on Wednesdays and alternate Fridays.
Question: Does the artist know in advance when a given strip will run? Clearly, there are certain strips that will be done for specific holidays, but in general, if Jim Davis submits a strip today, does he know for certain that it will run on November 14, or November 25, or whenever?
If he knew well in advance that the offending strip would show on November 11, then no apology is acceptable from him. If the syndicator timed it without Davis' input, then Mr. Davis had no need to apologize, and it falls squarely on the "usual suspects", i.e. the Lame Stream Media.
Davis said his brother served in Vietnam, and his son is a Marine who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He said he is grateful for the service of veterans, and called any offense “unintentional and regrettable.”
I think this probably is an unfortunate accident of timing. The strip was written a year ago.
Did I temporarily blank out and while I was out all of the real problems we have went away?
I read Garfield daily; I didn’t make any connection and I am a veteran and military retiree.
This and the crap about the “muslim crescent” on Google’s logo are beginning to sound too much like the libs and political correctness; don’t do anything that might offend me...bitch, whine, moan.
Get a grip!
"Jon prepares for a date" and "Odie annoys Garfield", although it has been years since I read it and those might have fallen out of circulation.
In general, no they do not know.
Jeez, you people can go through war but can’t handle a comic strip? Does not compute. Ya’ll may want to start voting Democrat. They’re easily insulted too.
You left out “John says / does something dumb” and “Garfield dislikes Mondays”.
You forgot “Garfield hates Mondays” and “Garfield needs his coffee.” That about covers it. This strip’s only offense is being boring and fresh out of ideas much less relevance for at least a decade.
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