Garfield Sans

Less is more: making Garfield comics funnier (or at least, more absurd) by omitting and altering strategic parts. Enjoy!
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Some people, me included, got the feeling that the quality of ‘Garfield’ has been declining since Jim Davis handed over its production to the ‘PAWS collective’. Luckily, people have found creative ways to spice up those new (and even the good old) cartoons by selectively omitting parts. The first experiment involved removing Garfield's dialogue. More recently, someone removed Garfield altogether, which gives the comic a whole new twist. While ‘garfield minus garfield’ seems to abide to strict rules, I went a bit further in a quest to maximize absurdity. The result is Garfield Sans. The only strict rule is: there must be no trace of Garfield. Otherwise, any modification is allowed, as long as it involves manipulating parts of the original comic. This has led to mutations like Alien Odie, and Jon's many dysfunctional eating habits like the apparent irresistible urge to suddenly shove his face into his food.

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Sommige mensen, zoals ik, hebben de indruk dat de kwaliteit van ‘Garfield’ is beginnen dalen sinds Jim Davis de productie ervan overhandigd heeft aan het ‘PAWS-collectief’. Gelukkig hebben sommigen creatieve manieren gevonden om de nieuwe (en zelfs goeie oude) cartoons meer pit te geven door selectief delen uit te wissen. Het eerste idee was alle dialoog van Garfield te verwijderen. Recent is iemand begonnen met Garfield zelf te verwijderen, met een merkwaardig effect tot gevolg. Terwijl ‘garfield minus garfield’ zich aan strikte regels schijnt te houden, ben ik nog een stapje verder gegaan met als doel de absurditeit te maximaliseren. Het resultaat is Garfield Sans. Er is maar 1 strikte regel: er mag geen spoor van Garfield zijn. Verder mag alles, zolang het verband houdt met de originele strip. Dit heeft bv. geleid tot mutaties zoals Alien Odie, en Jon's vele disfunctionele eetgewoonten zoals de schijnbaar onhoudbare drang om zijn gezicht plots in zijn eten te kwakken. Er zijn ook enkele bijdragen van Brubbel en andere kotnet.absurders. Veel plezier!

PAQ (Possibly Asked Questions)

Q: Isn't this illegal, like violating copyright laws?
A: In many countries, including the USA and Belgium, there are fair use laws allowing to copy parts of artwork for purposes of parody. Plus, I don't get or intend to get profits from this, I'm just doing this for fun. However, if Jim Davis feels this is a violation of copyright, I will delete this webpage immediately.

Q: Why are there some doubles with ‘garfield minus garfield’?
A: I always check before making a cartoon if it hasn't already been done in gmg, or if I can improve upon an existing one. Of course, this doesn't guarantee that the author of gmg won't make the same cartoon afterwards (I doubt that he knows of the existence of this site anyway). But there's no reason why the same cartoon couldn't be in both gmg and GS.

Q: Which drawing program do you use for this?
A: Mostly the GIMP, and sometimes Photoshop.

Q: Can I easily find out which is the original Garfield cartoon for a certain GS comic?
A: Yes, the date of the original comic can be found in the name of the image file. But even easier is to click the tiny button “” at the bottom right of each comic, which will bring you to the original cartoon on the GoComics website (there is no way to directly link to a date in the ‘vault’ on Garfield.com).

Q: Why do I find most of these modified comics unfunny?
A: Because this is not a kind of humour that everyone appreciates. If you do like most of the newest ‘regular’ Garfield comics, you'll probably not like the ‘mutated’ versions.

Q: I want to download all the comics, should I waste some of my time and your bandwidth by writing a script or setting up a crawler?
A: Of course not, just mail me and I'll send you all the comics in a convenient archive.