Garfield Minus Garfield: Greatest Thing Ever
October 2nd, 2008 Posted in ReadingsThis is genius. Maybe you’ve already seen it, because as usual I’m a little late to the party, but to me here’s this week’s “Greatest Thing Ever!”
As the website, created by Dan Walsh, explains: “Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.”
I strongly urge you to check it out — a comic that would cause Jean Paul Sartre to cachinnate. And for the record, I’ve never, ever liked Garfield. This web sensation has gotten a lot of much-deserved press recently, here and here and here, plus there’s also going to be a book (and I totally want it)!
One Response to “Garfield Minus Garfield: Greatest Thing Ever”
By Liz Szabla on Oct 2, 2008
Based on this snippet alone, I’m going to check out the website tonight (ahem,not during business hours. Thanks for this and also that great Newman tribute.