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[Troidal]

Wow that was a dark and depressing strip.... :-/

 

[sangreal]

I thought this thread was going to be about the movies

 

[Adagio]

http://arbucklesworld.blogspot.com/

Woah. That would take a long time...

 

[Blablurn]

OMFG ._.

 

[PantherLotus]

Jesus, that was sad. Well done by its maker.

 

[tedtropy]

The end of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Garfield have combined. Come to think of it, a depressive Garfield anime would be awesome.

 

[Diablos]

I love how they build up the comic strips in the ytmnd like it's the most terrifying thing ever. :rolleyes

 

[radios shipping overview]

I read that series of strips back in the day, in one of the collected books. It never seemed like it was intended to be depressing; it just seemed like a riff on the Twilight Zone played for laughs. It's definitely one of the series' high points, though.

 

[Gearharaden]

I don't know, but after those Scientology ytmnd's, I keep expecting pictures of corpses to flash up in other ytmnd's, I totally thought a picture of a dead cat was gonna flash up at the end :lol

You and me both. The internet has made me suspicious as hell.

 

[dark_chris]

You and me both. The internet has made me suspicious as hell.

I kept thinking that. Like something random was gonna happen. Hell, even the Final Fantasy XI videos had that. >.<

The internet...Dangerous place to be

 

[Sapiens]

At what point did Jim Davis stop making Garfield strips and turn it over to a committee process?

My guess would be right around 1989 - he made a killing off of Garfield merch, decided to not waste his life anymore, and live a fat life off of the royalties.

 

[Brian Fellows]

Used to be. But even the newer strips are better in collections than they are reading them day by day in the newspaper.

I've not really read much of te new stuff. All of the collections I've read are from the mid-80's. Calvin and Hobbes does kick ass too. I read a big collection of it too last week.

 

[ronito]

The below comes from boingboing.net . There's no verifcation, so take it like IGN and Fox News announcments, grain of salt included.

I read the ("Death of Garfield?") post a couple of days ago and was intrigued because I was scheduled to have a business meeting with Jim Davis in just a couple of days (I work for Hallmark). Well, I had that meeting at Paws (Davis' company) yesterday and I used the opportunity to ask him just exactly what he had in mind when he wrote those strips. The answer was simple. He was not inspired by any cartoon (though I could certainly see why the other commenter might believe so). Garfield is NOT dead, nor is he starving to death (Jim actually laughed loudly when I suggested these theories). It was simply a week before Halloween and Jim wanted to do something legitimately scary, as opposed to Halloween-scary. "Ghosts aren't scary..." he told me before explaining that before writing the strips he went around to everyone he knew and asked them what truly scared them. The answer he got most often was "being alone" or "dying alone". Just that simple.

I mentioned the post to Jim and he seemed tickled. I told him that I intended to set the record straight and he seemed fine with it. As a matter of fact he was unaware of the many internet-circulated theories about the strips (it took him a moment to even understand which strips I was talking about).

I have to admit that I am more than a little thrilled to have had the opportunity to address (and resolve) something that so many are speculating about. A rare opportunity indeed...

 

[xsarien]

The below comes from boingboing.net . There's no verifcation, so take it like IGN and Fox News announcments, grain of salt included.

I'll take the word of someone reporting into BoingBoing after having met with Jim Davis himself over the discordant "facts" cobbled together from those theorizing on Wikipedia and YTMND.

 

[dasein]

The end of Neon Genesis Evangelion and Garfield have combined. Come to think of it, a depressive Garfield anime would be awesome.

this sent shivers down my spine. oh how much I love NGE.