A new way to read Garfield

I never was a big fan of Garfield. He was fun to try to draw but that was about it.

I have recently discovered a site (Garfield Minus Garfield) that offers a new way to read the comic strip. The site removes Garfield from every frame leaving only Jon doing seemingly odd things.

The site describes itself as:

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.

Here is a sampling:

The site also is very rss friendly and seems to me the way to read it. Even without Garfield, the comic is still not great, but it is amusing on some level that even a one sided conversation can still make some kind of sense.

It also makes you wonder how many other things – including real conversations – in life would still make sense if you take out one of the participants.

I think a fair number of them will which doesn’t say much for those converssations or the participants themselves.