It’s been a while since I found any new Garfield experiments, but this one is quite nice. The infinite loop and the limited movement in Garfield essentially sums up 50 % of all Garfield strips ever made : What in the blazes is that guy doing ?
(From Tumblr, via Madcowbot’s Delicious – Garfield © 2007 Paws. All Rights Reserved)
Comex Paints claims they can match any color. Even iconic ones (and even more after the click).
Eind februari van dit jaar lanceerde internetboekhandel Amazon zijn Kindle 2, een verbeterde versie van zijn ebook, met meer geheugen, een scherper beeld, en toegang tot online winkel voor ebooks. Om de een of andere reden leeft bij Jeff Bezos en zijn geeks, maar ook bij bedrijven asl iRex, Jinnke en Sony, het idee dat wij daarop zitten te wachten : een iPod voor leesvoer. Boeken, tijdschriften, kranten, alles netjes opgeborgen in een schermpje van een paar milimeter dik. En dus ook strips. Of niet ?
I’m afraid we may have been getting a bit of Watchmen overload lately (at least it didn’t make me look differently at the original comic, the way the Dark Knight marketing bonanza did), but you gotta love PvP for bringing Popeye and Peanuts and Garfield in the mix. Now if only Scott had somehow included Watterson in the equation, this strip would make more sense than is good for us.
(PvP © 2009 Scott R. Kurtz)
Garfield Lost in Translation is the hilarious result of translating Garfield strips to the Chinese and back again, using the Yahoo! Babelfish and Google Translate online translation services. Suddenly, even the plainest jokes reveal their hidden meanings, and Jon and friends talk in koans.
(via Google Blogoscoped – Garfield © and ™ Paws, inc.)
Last Monday the Ephemerist got hit by Jason Kottke ! Welcome to the five hundred readers who visited us then. Hope you stick around, because there’s more here than just Garfield !
It would seem there’s no end to the ways Jim Davis’s Garfield can be put to creative use.
Josh Millard recently launced Garkov which applies the Markov model (which is completely beyond me) to Garfield strips. I’m not sure about the theoretical backgrournd, but it seems that this generates new strips based on existing ones, which at least look and feel like genuine strips, but on closer look lack all coherence and plot typical for a human narrative.
Needless to say, this kind of thing tickles our interest. Josh also was so kind as to provide a full list of other Garfield experiments.
It would seem that Jim Davis’ Garfield is a real cornucopia for literary experimentation. Much more than any other popular comic, be it Peanuts or Calvin And Hobbes, Davis’ universe clos and iconic characters seem to lend themselves to postmodern repurposing and extistentialist critique.
Earlier we had Forever Garfield and Nothing Garfield, and now Garfield Minus Garfield presents Jon’s little world without his cat’s overwhelming presence. It’s as if Samuel Beckett is doing the funnies. And it even made USA Today’s Pop Candy blog.
(from The Hurting)
Here’s a nice mashup with “stock” Garfield images that I received from a cartoonist who requested to remain anonymous. Somehow this luminary succeeded in transforming this daily comical cartoon into an existential drama of Beckett-like proportions.
As another luminary (this time less anonymous, for it was Matt “99 Ways To Tell A Story” Madden) said, “Garfield is the new Nancy“…
(Garfield is © Paws, inc. All Rights Reserved)
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