Garfield Minus Garfield removes the iconic cat from the cartoon and makes Jon’s life noticeably more grim. See 15 of the webcomic’s darkest strips.
The comic strip Garfield has always been a humorous, comfortable mainstay of many newspapers' comics sections, but one notable experiment has given the series a dark makeover. Garfield Minus Garfield is a webcomic created by Dan Walsh that edits Garfield strips by creator Jim Davis that removes the titular cat and his commentary from the strips. This often leaves Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle alone and talking to himself.
14 Cat Hair Garfield was known for always disrupting Jon’s own food time while making unbelievable demands for his own cuisine. But here, Jon’s meal isn’t interrupted by anything other than the thought a cat hair could be in his food. However, there is no Garfield, making Jon’s intense search not only pointless but quite disturbing. The fervor with which he scans his food makes it seems like he’s trying to find some evidence that Garfield is real.
11 "...Then I Fail" Without Garfield’s humorous commentary, many of these edited strips take on a much darker tone than the original. Here, Jon is talking to himself, assuring that he always tries his hardest at whatever he sets out to do, though he contends it usually ends with failure. Garfield is usually presented as a counter to Jon who eggs on his negative side. But here, that negativity comes from within, revealing how self-critical Jon is.
8 Loser Jon Arbuckle isn’t the most confident or self-assured character in comic strips. But here, he doesn’t even need the empty, judgmental look of Garfield to erode his self-esteem. Jon’s affirmation that he isn’t a loser slowly begins to degrade into an admittance of how much of a loser he actually is. He can’t help but tear himself down, even when there’s no one there egging him on, a truly sad state of affairs.
5 Existentialism The more one takes in Garfield Minus Garfield strips, the more people see the hidden ennui of the original strip. Here, Jon discusses the world saying it existed before anyone and will be here long after everyone is gone. Jon isn’t exactly happy-go-lucky, but he’s usually not the dour, downbeat existentialist that he becomes once Garfield is erased from his life.
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