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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
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Liz: What do you have planned for us tonight?
Jon: First we'll jet to a hollywood premiere and reception with the stars. Then have an intimate dinner at a posh restaurant followed by an evening of dancing at a private club topped off with bubbly on the beach at sunrise.
Liz: You're kidding!
Jon: Yes...how does a drive-in movie grab you?
Garfield: Yea.
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Jon: This is great. I have a date with Liz. I'll finally have her all to myself. Just her and me.
Garfield: And kitty makes three.
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Jon: You're not going to stand me up again, are you, doc? Really...why are you going out with me?
Liz: You amuse me.
Jon: I'll settle for that.
Garfield: Don Juan dazzles another love-struck waif.
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Jon: How about a date, Doc?
Liz: Okay.
Jon: Are you going out with me because of my charm, or my good looks?
Liz: It must be your charm.
Garfield: Bingo.
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Garfield: I'm bored. I'm sick of being cooped up in this house all day. LET ME OUT! I NEED SPACE!
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Garfield: Hey there, good-looking. I don't believe I've seen you around here before. Do you believe in love at first sight? Where have you been all my life?
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Garfield: Television should be more informative. Television should be more intellectually stimulating. I'm going to start a movement for more socially aware TV programming! Just as soon as I'm finished watching "The Beach Creature Annoys Sandra Dee".
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Jon: Uh-oh, Garfield wants in!
WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!
Garfield: When I want in, I want in NOW.
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Jon: Leave that chicken leg alone, Garfield. It's mine.
smack!
WHACK!
SPLAT!
Jon: It's things like this that tend to diminish my enthusiasm for owning a cat.
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