Garfield Minus Garfield to be released in book form

[Fire Walk With Me]

From garfieldminusgarfield.net:

Ballantine Books to Publish Book Inspired by the Webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield

Collection to be published simultaneously with Garfield 30th anniversary book

NEW YORK, NY – July 30, 2008 – Paws, Inc. and Ballantine Books, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, announced last week at Comic-Con International that Ballantine will publish a book inspired by the popular webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield.


Garfield Minus Garfield (www.garfieldminusgarfield.net) made its online debut in February 2008 and quickly became an online sensation based on a simple premise: What would Jim Davis’ Garfield comic strip be like without its lasagna-loving fat cat? Without the presence of Garfield and other characters such as Odie the dog and Nermal the kitten, the strips “create a new, even lonelier atmosphere for Jon Arbuckle…Jon’s observations seem to teeter between existential crisis and deep despair.” (New York Times)

The full-color book format will give readers the experience of having both the original and doctored Garfield strips together on the same page for comparison. Dublin, Ireland-based Garfield Minus Garfield creator Dan Walsh will provide the foreword to the book.

Garfield creator Jim Davis was intrigued by—and pleased with—the concept. “I think it’s an inspired thing to do,” Davis said. “I want to thank Dan for enabling me to see another side of Garfield. Some of the strips he chose were slappers: ‘Oh, I could have left that out.’ It would have been funnier.”

Garfield Minus Garfield site creator Dan Walsh says, “When I looked at Jon and laughed at his crazy antics I thought ‘He’s just like me.’ As it turns out, I wasn’t the only one saw myself in him: millions of visitors from all over the world visit Garfield Minus Garfield and tell me they think the same thing. Now, thanks to the awesome generosity and humor of Jim Davis, Garfield Minus Garfield is going to become a book and I’m absolutely honored to be part of it.”

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/post/33370177

[Lorien]

1. I ask myself the same thing sometimes

[XemaSab]

2. These are crushingly depressing

x(

[Fire Walk With Me]

3. Gives insight into what the Garfield creator is really trying to express...

..a response to real life.

Humor is disaster in a clown suit.

[DarkTirade]

9. Clowns are disaster in a clown suit.

:scared:

[Fire Walk With Me]

10. Suits need to learn to think outside the box.

[ghostsofgiants]

4. Sweeeeet!

[mainegreen]

5. Those are great. Bookmarking. n/t

[arcadian]

6. Jim Davis is way cool.

Not a lot of artists would let people tear into their work like that.

[Blue_Tires]

11. +1

never seen that before, but it is brilliant

[Tommy_Carcetti]

13. Apparently Davis gave the creator of the idea props

Which is pretty cool.

Course I've always liked Garfield, even with Garfield. I know, I'm such a kid still reading the morning funnies like that, but I can't stop now.

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. Kick.

[Radical Activist]

8. Is he doing every cartoon? Or just ones he picks?

Funny how Garfield is not far removed from ingmar bergman movies.

[meegbear]

12. w00t!

[GreenPartyVoter]

14. Some don't seem to work, but others a freaking riot