Garfield! :D

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Seeing that there is no thread devoted to comic strips, and by virtue of the fact that Garfield has had two TV series (and many specials, and two films), I thought it goes here.
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I've been a fan of Garfield for as long as I can remember, and even moreso since 1999; I love Jim Davis' humor in it. Garfield is a cat I can relate to to a degree; lazy, and fat (the second one, only to a certain degree). I own quite a bit of his books, but I should really get some more in the near future. Overall, a nice comic strip.

I am a very big Garfield fan.

How many people here do believe that Jon, Garfield's owner, is an Aspie?
He, in many of the strips he has been in, expresses Aspie-like behavior to the point where Garfield doesn't take him seriously.

I am a longtime fan of Garfield.

When I was a young teenager I became very obsessed with Garfield. I had posters, plushies, shirts, books, cartoons I taped on video, you name it. It was also my first "special interest" to become the target of much bullying, pain and misery from other kids in junior high. Everywhere I went at school the kids, mostly boys, would scream out "GARFIELD'S DEAD!! !" or "GARFIELD'S A F****T!! !" soon it wasn't just at school, they would scream it out to me from cars while I was out walking in my neighborhood and even at the mall. One time a girl called me and said obscene things like "Go suck Garfield's c**k and when I hung up the phone rang non-stop and I didn't know how to handle a harassing phone call back then. Cartoons and drawing them were all I seemed to care about and even my mother thought I needed to stop. But forcing me not to stay in an imaginary world where I was happy and accepted unlike real life was the last thing that they should have done. I was allowed to live in my world of cartoons as a child and I was happy, but then you become a teenager and everything about it sucks. To this day I still think that I will hear the phrase "Garfield's dead" from someone every time I go out. The most recent time it happened was actually on 9/11.

Garfield was probably the biggest influence on my cartooning style that I developed when I was young, especially visually. I always liked Odie the best.

I liked the cartoon series but I thought that 1st noncartoon movie S#CKED & I thought little I've sen from the 2nd series s#cked too

I found the cartoon series on YouTube last month. Ah, memories.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMELnad_HRE[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-N_j18piqkU[/youtube]

Which opening do you like better?

I might get some more Garfield books....... in the near future.

I remember getting excited about the Garfield movie in 2004; in all honesty, it was a fun movie, even though a lot of people didn't agree with me on that.

The movie wasn't bad. I always thought it was an interesting "coincidence" that Bill Murray did his voice:

Lorenzo Music: voice of animated Garfield AND animated Peter Venkman (THE REAL GHOSTBUSTERS).
Bill Murray: voice of live-action Garfield AND live-action Peter Venkman in the GHOSTBUSTERS movies.