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LA Times Kills Garfield

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SickBoy

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Some are hailing Brevity as a Far Side heir-apparent...

It's got a loooooooooooong way to go, but it's not half bad so far. Not fantastic, but not half bad.
 
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explodet

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I remember reading comments in the early 90s regarding the comic strips in newspapers and how none of them were funny (with a few noteable exceptions).

And here it is a decade later and nothing's changed.
 
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videogamer

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When asked for a response to Weingarten's comments and the Times action, Universal Press Syndicate Director of Communications Kathie Kerr said today: "Our understanding is that 'Garfield' ran in a children's section of the Los Angeles Times. When a feature is dropped on pages which are predominantly read by children, those young readers are less likely to complain or demand its return."
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This "children's section" is right next to all the other comics. It is [was] in color too. IIRC of course. Garfield is a boring comic.
 
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Tarazet

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Garfield was funny, very funny IMO, up until about 1992 (guesstimating). At some point I realized it was no longer worth it to buy the books.
 
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Brannon

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On an off-note, is Non-Sequitur on its way to becoming the next Calvin and Hobbes with the whole Danae/Lucy thing?

On an offer-note, the return of Outland/Bloom Country/Penguin and Cat comic has happened quite a while ago, but I still love it.

And on the offest-note, this holiday season saw Curtis/Pro-Kwanzaa go against Boondocks/Anti-Kwanzaa. Much love there.
 
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Error Macro

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Garfield is the greatest. The LA Times sucks anyways, and I don't read it. The San Gabriel Valley Tribune is a much better paper.
 
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CajoleJuice

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Garfield hasn't made me laugh in a few years now, although I've only been looking at the Sunday ones. But those are supposed to be the good ones right? They suck. I used to love Garfield too. Kind of like The Simpsons.
 
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Jim Bowie

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Garfield stopped being funny after Jim Davis died. He did die, didn't he?

Follow in suit, Marmaduke and Family Circus.
 
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Shinobi

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Jim Bowie said:
Follow in suit, Marmaduke and Family Circus.
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Marmaduke has never been funny...EVER. Worst piece of shit comic in existance. The worst Garfield strip imaginable destroys it.
 
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dog$

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I applaud the LA Times.
DJ Brannon said:
On an off-note, is Non-Sequitur on its way to becoming the next Calvin and Hobbes with the whole Danae/Lucy thing?
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Non Sequitur has to be funny in order to do that, which I think it is only when he's doing any of his non-series stuff. Any time he tries to put continuity in his strip, from Obvious Man to that boat-captain guy to Homer to that Danae chick, I just don't even bother to read.
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Marmaduke has never been funny...EVER. Worst piece of shit comic in existance. The worst Garfield strip imaginable destroys it.
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Marmaduke is trash, yes.

But nothing comes close to the atrocity that is Cathy. More so than Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, Sylvia... Cathy is just completely and eternally devoid of any humor or art.
 
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Shig

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Garfield's been stale for quite a while, but at least it used to be worthwhile. There's plenty of comics that never have been funny ever and therefore deserve the ax before the fat cat gets it. If they got rid of Garfield, they damn well better not be running any shittier comics like Luann, Nancy, Cathy, or Family Circus.
DJ Brannon said:
On an off-note, is Non-Sequitur on its way to becoming the next Calvin and Hobbes with the whole Danae/Lucy thing?
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Uh, no. It's "on it's way" like a 10-year-old is "on their way" to becoming a basketball star. It could happen, but there's gotta be a lot of work to get there, because it's not even close now.

IMO, best comic in the funnies now is easily Mutts, followed by Pearls Before Swine.
 
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Rlan

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I swear I can remember a Garfield comic which actually repeated everything exactly to another Garfield comic a year beforehand.

It went like this:

Jon: Boys! Hot chocolate!
Jon: Where's Odie?
Garfield: I'm standing on him...

It was repeated, but was redrawn. I think i heard they even fell on the same date, for both years, but I've been going through the vault over at Garfield.com, and I can't even find the original.

Find them and it will prove that Garfield is stale! :)
 
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Azih

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Funny comics around.

I like Non-sequitir and Mutts.

I really like Get Fuzzy and For Better or Worse.
 
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Litigation Manuel

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Get Fuzzy and Opus are the only comics worth reading in my paper.
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The cat shouts Wilco! Like the band! But more like the owner's last name! Still!
 
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DrForester

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if anything is "the next calvin and hobbes" it's Frazz. Art work is much like Calvin and hobbes, as is the tone of the comic.

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My favorite comics are probably fox trot, zits, frazz and get fuzzy
 
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Christoff Yurievich

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DrForester said:
if anything is "the next calvin and hobbes" it's Frazz. Art work is much like Calvin and hobbes, as is the tone of the comic.

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My favorite comics are probably fox trot, zits, frazz and get fuzzy
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Yes! Frazz is the best comic out there right now, followed by Get Fuzzy and Foxtrot. Zits I'm not familiar with because it's not in the local paper.

Hockey jokes are always funny.

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belgurdo

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DJ Brannon said:
And on the offest-note, this holiday season saw Curtis/Pro-Kwanzaa go against Boondocks/Anti-Kwanzaa. Much love there.
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I haven't been enjoying Boondocks as much as I used to. Boondocks was funny at first when it was a black clone of Calvin and Hobbes, but then the funny started going away after a couple of years. OKAY, McGRUDER, YOU HATE THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION. WE FUCKING GET IT ALREADY.

I've seen where he's trying to get some of the old themes back in, but a lot of what that comic seems to be lost now
 
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Christoff Yurievich

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I'm sure there are better ones on the web but the comic.com website only goes back two weeks. plus I have law homework I need to be doing instead of reading comics. :/
 
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Memles

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olimario said:
Show me more Frazz, because that one wasn't funny.
I like Fox Trot and Zits right now.
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I love Zits, but I am no longer able to read it daily; In order to get it daily online you have to pay a yearly fee, whereas I can read Fox Trot online each day for free. I find both comics to be getting a tiny bit stale, with occasionally repeating gags, but it's still damn funny. Zits' imagery is great. Everyone should pick up some of the books; treasuries are damn cheap nowadays and it's nice to read the strips in order.
 
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SatelliteOfLove

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Memles said:
I love Zits, but I am no longer able to read it daily; In order to get it daily online you have to pay a yearly fee, whereas I can read Fox Trot online each day for free. I find both comics to be getting a tiny bit stale, with occasionally repeating gags, but it's still damn funny. Zits' imagery is great. Everyone should pick up some of the books; treasuries are damn cheap nowadays and it's nice to read the strips in order.
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Fox Trot is great when he has a true inspiration, (especially the geeky stuff with Jason), but if he doesn't it can get flat, (still a fine comic).

Frazz was funny; too bad my local papers don't carry it.
 
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tt_deeb

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I skipped through the topic so excuse me if it was already mentioned but it was recently posted that the whole reason for the success of Garfield is the fact that it's so plain and consistant. It was an interesting read, I'd post it if I had the link.
 
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belgurdo

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tt_deeb said:
I skipped through the topic so excuse me if it was already mentioned but it was recently posted that the whole reason for the success of Garfield is the fact that it's so plain and consistant.
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That, and if Davis feels that the marketing's getting too big he starts killing off elements of it and revives it at a later date (recall that period in the 80s when Garfield was a hot shit comic and every tard soccer mom with a minivan had those suction cup Garfields in their windows, then it all vanished around 1994 or so) so that the interest will always be there
 
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fennec fox

ferrets ferrets ferrets ferrets FERRETS!!!
"What is this hockey of which you speak?"
"You're probably too young to remember"

:lol Funny 'cos it's true, even in Philadelphia where Flyers games always sold out

I do think that Get Fuzzy is a good comic strip, and I get the idea that it's extremely popular. I had this conversation with my parents over Xmas --
Me: "I've been thinking about getting a ferret"
Mom: "A what?"
Me: "A ferret"
Mom: "Oh, I love him in that one comic strip!"
 
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Shinobi

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dog$ said:
I applaud the LA Times.
Non Sequitur has to be funny in order to do that, which I think it is only when he's doing any of his non-series stuff. Any time he tries to put continuity in his strip, from Obvious Man to that boat-captain guy to Homer to that Danae chick, I just don't even bother to read.
Marmaduke is trash, yes.

But nothing comes close to the atrocity that is Cathy. More so than Hagar the Horrible, Family Circus, Sylvia... Cathy is just completely and eternally devoid of any humor or art.
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Nah, I've laughed at Cathy once or twice, so that keeps it from being used toilet paper. Marmaduke is a whole different level of suck...shit art, shit concept, no punchline, no nothing. Reading more about the tsunamis would be funnier.
 
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GameCat

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Garfield was purposely created by Davies to sell merchandise. He was in advertising before going into comics IIRC. It's supposed to only contain a couple of elements (cat likes lasagna, cat is fat, dog is dumb) repeated ad nauseam.
 
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