Garfield

Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

Got one for you that came out of a copy of the Garfield Randomizer:

OMG, you guys totally have T-Rex emoticons - pretty rad.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 4:49 pm

The Garfield from the actual day of my birth:

And from other various birthdays:

Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Great thread! Did this with the randomizer awhile back:

http://tundraboy.livejournal.com/51753.html

Poor Jon, the man needs medication.

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 6:50 pm

Oh man I am ever-so-slightly TOO OLD to have a Garfield on my birthdate.

Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 10 Location: Nashville, TN

these are amazing!

Posted: Mon Feb 06, 2006 7:30 pm

Thanks!

P.S. I I Wuv Woo

Butterfly

Joined: 29 Jan 2006 Posts: 405 Location: Jersey (new)

You have changed Garfield from being depressing because it's not that funny to being depressing because Jon is just that pathetic.

Especially that boxer shorts one. Oh Jon...

Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

the weird thing is...

these doctored comics aren't especially quirky or weird. they're just... normal, funny comics. with the exception of one or two, i can't picture any dialogue coming from garfield in any of them.

you guys have taken garfield and turned it into something not unlike peanuts. excuse me while i collect my jaw from the floor.

Joined: 12 Oct 2005 Posts: 13

This is the Garfield from September 11, 2001 - and even though it was probably prepared weeks or months in advance, it seems like a daringly edgy response to a crisis.

Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

I think I got a little carried away.

Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

I am truly stunned at just how well this works.

Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 44

Please don't stop! This is now my favorite comic!

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 6:37 pm

I count no less than six people making their first post in this thread.

Garfield: Bringing the world together through mockery.

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:05 pm

Does this mean that Garfield is actually funny?

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:07 pm

It means Garfield COULD BE funny! Like a guy with a huge goiter COULD look OK.

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 8:11 pm

Timefishblue wrote:

It means Garfield COULD BE funny! Like a guy with a huge goiter COULD look OK.

You could go through life only looking at a persons left side

Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

My goiter is on the left side though.

Joined: 06 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Sadly, this experiment does not make the Family Circus any funnier. It does, however, change it from a saccharine sweet sack of Hallmark Channel crap into charming, one-panel, Norman Rockwell-esque portraits of American children. They live their lives quietly. The watcher is struck by the feeling of innocence, and wonders if perhaps they should creep quietly out of the room, to let these sweet cherubs play on without interruption:

The experiment also fails to really improve Fox Trot, arguably a "good" strip, not a "shitty" strip. It has its uses, however, when you remove Jason Fox's barbed tongue. Instead of an overly precocious, annoying little nerd, he is now a passive character, and the interaction between him and his older brother Peter becomes errie and not a little bittersweet:

Finally, I took the liberty of using this tool to improve that old chestnut Fred Basset. With his mostly 3-panel shenanigans and tendency to deride others in thought balloons, he seemed the perfect subject for this. Lo and behold, his corny humor is washed away in a tide of realism. Fred is a dog, a true animal and subject to all of the pain, sadness and danger that real canines experience daily:

Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 72 Location: California

That was beautiful, timh.

And this is like a page out of my life:

timh wrote:

Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2006 11:54 pm

A MILLION TIMES BETTER, AMIRITE?!
HUH?

EH?

RIGHT GUYS?

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 1

That already-mentioned castlezzt site had this, but it's way too funny to sit at the bottom of that page all sad and unnoticed.

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 2

Another first-time poster...

I did this a while back, when I first discovered castlezzt. I've got a page of them up there, but so as not to flood, here's some of my favorites:

This one really demonstrates the interest of your average garfield strip:

I gotta say, I have a newfound interest in making these...maybe if there's time later on...

Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 1 Location: Canada

To be honest, I think there is only one Garfield comic out of all of those I can even imagine him saying something. Seriously, I can't even begin to guess what he would say in those comics, they feel written for his lack of dialogue.

Guest

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:08 pm

awesome

Joined: 07 Feb 2006 Posts: 44

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 4:12 pm

thats how all comics should be Smile

Joined: 19 Jul 2005 Posts: 5828 Location: Los Angeles, CA

FrankTinsley wrote:

Awesome.

Also, how'd you like to be the sucker who had to go back and colorize all the old strips?

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:34 pm

mysteriorockanova wrote:

A MILLION TIMES BETTER, AMIRITE?!
HUH?

EH?

RIGHT GUYS?

Exploring a universe in where Utahraptor never speaks
he always rushes in and wants to say something
but never does and finally leaves
lets watch

Does this make T-Rex a kind of dinosaur that just talks so much
Utahraptor can't get a foot in the door of conversations and leaves
also this makes T-Rex always talking to himself or to Dromiceiomimus (who is never really intrested and soon quits the conversations)

Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 5:40 pm

Guys, you are gonna love this.