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Garfield Minus Garfield
Garfield Minus Garfield.
As the banner says “Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?”
Some samples (but really, you have to visit):
Brilliant. Totally fucking brilliant. I don’t know who you are GMG [...]
Read More..>>February 16, 1927
I’m sure that, like me, you’re wondering “What happened on February 16, 1927?”
So I did some research.
For starters, there was a frolic in Duluth.
Some obscure politicians were born and/or died, and Justice Hugo Black celebrated his 41st birthday.
William Fred Quesse, “American labor leader and president of the Building Service Employees International Union, the precursor of [...]
What Else Could He Mean?
When Billy grows up he wants to be a bear.
Read More..>>It’s a Jeff.
It took me awhile, but I believe today’s strip is a Jeff (although the ink may have been done by Bil).
It’s the caption that gives it away. Bil Keane, a Philadelphia native, is a fairly devout man, but a sucker for an easy gag and, with the exception of the truly execrable and unfortunately [...]
Bil and Jeff, Again
I’m stumped as to whether this strip is a Bil or a Jeff. On the one hand, the perspective is so bizarre, so distorted, it could only be a Bil. On the other, the “word-bubble/caption” setup is more in line with Jeff’s work. And what to say about the interior, shaded half-assed with [...]
Read More..>>Classic Bil Keane
Every since Bil Keane started handing over the reins to Family Circus to his eldest son, I’ve enjoyed playing an occasional game called “Jeff or Bil” in which you guess who wrote the strip of the day. In this case there’s no question of Bil’s authorship.
Never mind the pabulum gagline. Just marvel [...]
I’m Not Sure What to Say.
This is just nutty.
Read More..>>Ted Forth Grows a Pair
Yes, yes, yes: I know there are so many more important things going on in the world right now, but I just wanted to take a moment to point out the every comics reader’s favorite emasculated male, the hapless Ted Forth, has grown a set of balls and is kicking his harridan mother in law [...]
Read More..>>Produce Humor
There’s not mushroom for this kind of humor here at Brendan Calling, and if I’d know this was where this pear of Keane’s was going, ida red something else. I don’t carrot all for food jokes, but lettuce all back up a little and not get all hot under the collard.
Avocado go to work [...]
Going Too Far…
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