


Hello fellow Garfield fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… The comics are posted in chronological order on the day (usually) they were released. Posting them to match the release date adds a bit of fun and nostalgia to match the experience of reading them in the newspaper for first time. Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips. It really sucked when I missed a day. Only years later, when I got the books was I able to catch up on the missed strips.
Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip... Read more: http
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 30 April 1980
Transcript:
Jon: I'm really going to get you clean today, Garfield. What's this?
Garfield: One of my stripes, you bimbo.
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 29 April 1980
Transcript:
Jon: I'm making some really great soup for supper, Garfield.
Garfield: Something's wrong here.
Jon: And now some seasoning...
Garfield: I don't like the sound of this.
Jon: BATH TIME!
Garfield: I've been duped again!
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 27 April 1980
Transcript:
Garfield: Stand aside, little lady. I'll stop the traffic for you.
Garfield: HOLD UP!
VOOM!
Cat: My hero.
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 26 April 1980
Transcript:
Jon: Thanks for going out with me tonight, Liz. I'm sorry Garfield came along. He's a little overbearing at times. But, at any rate...I'd like to...uh...it was...I mean...er...uh...
Garfield: Kiss her, you dip.
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 25 April 1980
Transcript:
Liz: What's the movie tonight?
Jon: The sludge monster meets vermin man.
Liz: Never heard of it.
Jon: We've seen it eight times.
"Go Sludge Monster!"
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 24 April 1980
Transcript:
Liz: What do you have planned for us tonight?
Jon: First we'll jet to a hollywood premiere and reception with the stars. Then have an intimate dinner at a posh restaurant followed by an evening of dancing at a private club topped off with bubbly on the beach at sunrise.
Liz: You're kidding!
Jon: Yes...how does a drive-in movie grab you?
Garfield: Yea.
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 23 April 1980
Transcript:
Jon: This is great. I have a date with Liz. I'll finally have her all to myself. Just her and me.
Garfield: And kitty makes three.
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Garfield @lemmy.world m_f @discuss.online 22 April 1980
Transcript:
Jon: You're not going to stand me up again, are you, doc? Really...why are you going out with me?
Liz: You amuse me.
Jon: I'll settle for that.
Garfield: Don Juan dazzles another love-struck waif.