In an act that should qualify
him for the brilliant editors hall of fame, Dan Walsh discovered
that if all traces of Jim Davis's lazy, lasagna-scarfing cat were
expunged from his own comic strip, Garfield became a funnier, much
darker series, about a desperately lonely, self-loathing man's
existential despair. Walsh started posting his altered strips at
garfieldminusgarfield.net. And in an act that definitely qualifies
him for the good sport hall of fame, Davis not only didn't sue him
but approved of the project. This collection of the best
de-Garfielded strips prints Walsh's altered cartoons next to
Davis's originals; Davis even throws in a couple dozen
Garfield-minus-Garfield strips he's done himself. Interestingly,
Davis's stabs at the concept are mostly just gags about Garfield's
owner, Jon Arbuckle. The gist of Walsh's approach, on the other
hand, is to completely alter Davis's jokes—a strip in which
Garfield displays a single hair, announces this is all I'll be
shedding today and marches off before Jon delivers a punch line,
after Walsh gets through with it, becomes two panels of Jon
silently glancing around before haplessly declaring, I dread
tomorrow. If Samuel Beckett had been a strip cartoonist, he
might've produced something like this. (Nov.)
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