Garfield Minus Garfield = Win

I’ll be stepping away for a few days to reboot my sanity (fingers crossed). I’ll leave you with this sweet nugget.

I added Garfield Minus Garfield to my Reader way back in January due to someone’s tweet.

If you’re not familiar, here’s the about:

Garfield Minus Garfield is a site dedicated to removing Garfield from the Garfield comic strips in order to reveal the existential angst of a certain young Mr. Jon Arbuckle. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.

The strips are surprisingly good, and they offer a view you miss when Garfield is in the mix. Anyway, I assumed the little blog would eventually go the way of Scrabulous, I mean Wordscraper, after the legalities were sorted.

Oh contraire mon fraire.

Jim Davis, Garfield’s creator, apparently enjoys seeing his work remixed and likes reading Garfield Minus Garfield. So much so that the 30th anniversary book of Garfield comics will contain both the original and remixed versions of the strips, side-by-side for comparison.

And Dan Walsh, the mastermind behind the Minus version, will pen the forward for the anniversary book.

How awesome is that?

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