NEW YORK TIMES: NO GARFIELD, JUST JON.

The NY Times jumps on board about this website I had previously blogged about here.

When Dan Walsh, a 33-year-old technology manager in Dublin, started posting doctored versions of the comic strip “Garfield” on his blog in February, he thought he might amuse a few friends.

Instead, his site on Tumblr started receiving as many as 300,000 hits a day from the United States and beyond. More recently it has leveled off to 30,000 to 35,000 a day, which is not bad for a site whose content takes about five minutes to create.

Mr. Walsh does nothing to the panels except strip away Garfield and other characters — like Odie the dog and Nermal the kitten — to create a new, even lonelier atmosphere for Jon Arbuckle, the main human. Without the cutesy thought-bubbles of his lasagna-loving cat, Jon’s observations seem to teeter between existential crisis and deep despair.

Read more here.

HILARIOUSLY UNINTENTIONAL PERVERTED GARFIELD COMIC

HAHAHA.  Look at Jim's sly onanist face in the last part.  LOL.  I've blogged about this previously where the annoying cat is removed from the comic strip which results, in my opinion, in something that is more hysterical and surreal than its original irritating and stale iteration.

GARFIELD HYSTERICAL WITHOUT...GARFIELD

I never quite found Garfield all that funny or amusing.  Even as a seven year old learning to speak English I found it very uncouth and provincial in some way.  At least Peanuts, which I never enjoyed too much, had some pace or ambience. Stripped of that obnoxious cat I find Garfield pretty humorous.  Garfield sans Garfield becomes almost a visual koan or a comic rorschach test that provides enlightenment of some sort, or as the website states: "Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb."  Gawd, that is a genius observation: He was totally bugged out on meth...