this post was submitted on 21 Nov 2023
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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: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield
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I don't understand why I thought these Garfield comics were so hilarious as a kid. I read several of the books cover to cover, cracking up the entire time. I've been reading 1-2 of them per day on Lemmy for a couple of months now, and I don't think I've been even mildly amused a single time.
I loved them as a kid too and it’s been pretty hit or miss so far. I will say that I remember the comic got much better after the first year or two. Not sure if I’ll still feel that way now and we have a ways to go as we’re still in the first year.
Maybe because this is very early Garfield. I think the best ones were from the mid 80s to the mid 90s.
Oh that probably explains it then. It was in the 80's that I enjoyed it.