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>> No.19474095

>>19474085
...Now where could my pipe be?

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>>19474095

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>>19474085
i actually own all of the garfield books. not my picture but i have these. they're pretty cool, they were my dad's and he gave them to me when i was a kid. garfield is one of the best comic strips

>> No.19474191

>>19474104
I unironically feel like lasagnacat is the ultimate commentary on Garfield.

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>>19474178
holy based anon. I'd like to own all of them too...

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>>19474178
My dad gave me a bunch of Calvin and Hobbes books when I was a kid. Glad I grew up cultured and not reading commercialized drivel like Garfield.

>> No.19474203

>>19474085
Garfield is part of the western canon
There should be a Penguin Modern Classics edition of this instead of the capeshit they plan to release

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>>19474191
there's more to him anon. read more garfield.

>> No.19474209

>>19474195
calvin and hobbes is peak commercialized drivel. c&h is for midwits and waterson was a salty hack. every 'joke' in calvin and hobbes is just waterson projecting

>> No.19474213

>>19474085
I loved this comic as a kid. Still do

>> No.19474218

>>19474085
It's rather brilliant, well, because, in the general scheme of things, it's actually a rather small book. Garfield is, at one and the same time, a unit, while possessing that which Aristotle might call a dramatic unity. The very pith of pith itself.

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>>19474195
>>19474178
peanuts beats bof

>> No.19474233

>>19474222
Peanuts: an apt name, for that's all it's worth--a penny.

>> No.19474241

>>19474218
Aristotle actually admitted being heavily inspired by the garfield comics strip.

>> No.19474247

>>19474222
Based. Peanuts told some sincere and sensitive stories in such simple and effective ways. Went downhill when Snoopy overtook Charlie Brown, but still solid stuff.

>> No.19474249

>>19474241
Inductively, he must have read all of them.

>> No.19474257

>>19474247
I love peanuts' movies too. They're all very nostalgic and give me warm feelings, especially the christmas one.

>> No.19474307

>>19474257
That New Year's one was like a fucking Camus book. That one broke me as a five-year old lmao.

>> No.19474321

>>19474307
still breaks me everytime...

>> No.19475254

>>19474085
I remember seeing this in the school library as a kid and it being really weird to me that all the characters looked so different. It was like digging up lost knowledge of a forgotten time; at least that's what it felt like to me when I was that young.

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get real

>> No.19475308

>>19475254
Probably dating myself, but I felt the same way when I saw Arthur's classic anteater look in the Mark Brown books.

>> No.19475310

>>19475279
Oh please, the character of Rob Wilco is a soiboi fifteen years ahead of his time. He's like the avatar being a wimpy, consumerist shithead, and while he is exaggerated I cannot help but feel he reflects the author.
Bucky suing the ferret was a good arc, however.

>> No.19475322

>>19475310
I always got the impression he was intentionally pathetic and shortsighted.

>> No.19475608

comic strips are usually only good for a couple years at most before they run out of ideas. Garfield for instance used to do stuff. not every strip took place on the exact same blank backround. they would go places, go in the car, go around the house, etc. likewise peanuts. calvin and hobbes might be the exception it never just because a copy and paste cutout.

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>>19475608
>likewise peanuts
Peanuts could still be good even decades in. Pic related, this was one of the last comics Schulz drew before he died.

>> No.19475918

>>19474209
Why must you ruin that poor man's sense of nostalgia?

>> No.19475954

>>19475896
This is fairly dark if it's true that this was one of his lasts strips before he died. Seems like he was facing his own mortality

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with all the resentful wagies and neets around here i'm surprised i never see this

>> No.19476064

>>19475996
BASED

>> No.19476108

>>19474209
If you think this, look up Watterson's legendary battle with the syndication goons. After emerging with his artist's integrity intact, the man stopped making comics after only 10 years simply because he was satisfied with what the strip had become and didn't think he had anything more to add. Cf. literally every other major American newspaper comic since the '70s.

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>Calvin and Hobbes or Peanuts as the best comic strips
>When the medium peaked before the two even existed

>> No.19476130

>>19474218
I gotta... Well, anon, heh, I gotta disagree with you there. In the general scheme of things it's actually a pretty big book, as most things, in terms of overall matter, aren't books... by a great margin. As such, any book at all is a very improbable and immense incursion into the realm of non-book existence.

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>>19474095

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>>19474085
Garfield minus Garfield can be funny sometimes. Well, at least the general concept of it is better than Garfield.

>> No.19476269

>>19476251
Also this exists for some reason: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgmoMO66uPg

>> No.19476280

>>19476251
I think this concept is less dark nowadays considering Jon and Liz are a couple

>> No.19476455

>>19476280
>Garfield minus Garfield minus Liz
Maybe that would work better. Instead of chuckling at the concept for 10 seconds and spending 20 seconds looking at the comic; 11 seconds at the concept and 25 seconds looking for a good one.

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>>19474085

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turned into a calendar meme but the cartoons were funny

>> No.19477609

>>19474178
Garfield is actually funny. I remember literally laughing my ass off at them.

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>>19477550
>>19477609
Completely soulless character created specifically for marketing purposes.

>> No.19477958

>>19474218
I pithed in your mum last night.

>> No.19477979

>>19474257
True, Charlie was always so well spoken

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB-T95ltbFk