Garfield

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Hello fellow Garfield fans!

About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.

Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip... Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s Bloom County!

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Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] ameancow 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

I forgot how dark humor was in the olden days.

Also, our attitudes about domestic animals has changed a lot, I still remember when housecats were thought of by most people as undesirable pets, or even neighborhood pests to shoot, so the fact that people thought there massive farms for slaughtering cats and using their intestines for tennis rackets didn't bother anyone. (They have always used cow intestines.)

It may have been comic strips about cats like Garfield that made a lot of people change their perception of cats by humanizing them. The rise in popularity of cats has been dramatic, and now it's spread to the rest of the world via the internet. Places that once ate cats now pamper them as family members. So at least some good has come from the internet.