27.1.09

Garfield Minus Garfield

Garfield Minus Garfield
'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. It is a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb.'

'If Samuel Beckett had been a strip cartoonist, he might've produced something like this.'
Publisher's Weekly.
A friend in work has helpfully pointed me in the direction of a superb afternoon distraction: Garfield Minus Garfield. The idea is very simple: removing Garfield from Garfield cartoons to question the mental stability of Mr. Jon Arbuckle. But where before Garfield offered its readers a few moments of quiet amusement, it has now become a kind of profound meditation on the meaning of existence. 'Am I wasting my life?'