When I was young, my brothers and I would use whiteout and ink to turn the comics pages into reworked narratives of surreal carnage and highbrow fart jokes. Since we were always adding data, it never occurred to us what would result from only taking data away. Consequently, we never thought of this beautifully simple approach : Garfield minus Garfield.
Click the picture to see an example.
With the fat cat gone, the strip becomes a bizarre existential wasteland, and much, much funnier. And a little sad, too, I guess, since after a while, it becomes clear that this is how conversations between lonely shut-ins and their cats actually sound.
I wonder how well a blank Garfield mug would sell.
This is how conversations between non-lonely, non-shut-ins actually sound with cats. It's always sad when one converses with their cat or cats, if one were so inclined to have one, or two, or maybe even three, but not because she's lonely or a shut-in or a cat lady! Will you just get of my back!? Sheesh.
Posted by: I don't know | March 05, 2008 at 05:08 PM
Why tell me? I'm not a cat.
Posted by: virgil | March 05, 2008 at 05:54 PM
http://garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com/page/1
You've been scooped!
Posted by: Wat | March 21, 2008 at 07:51 PM