Comments on: Garfield minus Garfield book announced

By: Malc McGookin

Malc McGookin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 04:31:31 +0000

Jim Davis is in for a cut of this, obviously.
The guy is prepared to make money out of anything, remember Mister Potato Head?

Sure, he’s a nice guy, but Garfield has been a naked commercial venture right from the start.

I don’t read Garfield anymore, but looking through the GMG stuff, since when did Jon become such a loser? For those who say he always was, you’re wrong. He used to be a dry-witted, laconic everyman who could hold down a relationship. He had a steady girl at one stage.

Now he’s more like someone with intellectual disability.

By: David

David — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:49:41 +0000

If a strip without Garfield sells Garfield, all he really has to do is:

give Garfield a disease, play that out for a few months-a year.

kill off Garfield(making headlines far greater than Captain America’s death)

then he is free to pay people to doctor Garfield out of all his old strips.. thus able to…resell… all 30+ Garfield books without Garfield.

Then they can rerelease the two Garfield movies, digitally remastered without Garfield! The same can be done with the TV show.

and then he could kill off Jon and resell all 30+ books again with just the table in each panel. “A minimalist masterpiece” they will call it!

By: Garey Mckee

Garey Mckee — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:38:41 +0000

I believe it’s a unique marketing idea which Jim Davis recognizes. Ultimately, GMG sells Garfield.

By: David

David — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 02:11:52 +0000

it doesn’t say it in this article but on the GMG website it says:

Paws, Inc. and Ballantine Books, a division of the Random House Publishing Group, announced last week at Comic-Con International that Ballantine will publish a book inspired by the popular webcomic Garfield Minus Garfield.

Ballantine Books has been publishing Garfield books since 1980

so yes it’s actually Jim Davis who will be capitalizing off this.

The only reason for a book like this would be if all the profits went to a charity.

By: Eric Burke

Eric Burke — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:53:51 +0000

I love GMG, but does Jim Davis make any money from this book since it is his strips being used?

He is being cool about the whole deal. It’s refreshing. Jim Davis is thankfully no Lars Ulrich…

By: Rich Diesslin

Rich Diesslin — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:48:13 +0000

While this is a hoot, clever and all that, who would want to buy a book or even visit the web site when all you have to do is simply read Garfield and leave out Garfield? I don’t see the marketability of it.

By: Matt Bors

Matt Bors — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:34:15 +0000

Family Circus w/o the Fam is a revelatory strip. Brilliantly, it shows us the urban American landscape–sans inhabitants–thus satirizing the sham that is human civilization. Also, it’s witty!

By: David

David — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:35:25 +0000

Introducing:

Family Circus Minus The Family

http://flickr.com/photos/52355820@N00/sets/72157606475803389

book deal please!

By: David

David — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:04:47 +0000

fantastic…. way to go Jim Davis, you just encouraged everyone else to find their own comics to doctor!

Beetle Bailey minus Beetle Bailey anyone?
How about Dennis the Menace – Dennis
or
The Lockhorns Minus Loretta

or hey… Family Circus minus the family!

Yeah it’s nice that Davis didn’t sue and all, and it was funny as a web comic or how Matt put it, a diversion, but cashing in on it? Really? At least give all the profits to an animal charity, or something…

By: Karen Drastal

Karen Drastal — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 17:19:56 +0000

YES!!! Garfield Minus Garfield gave me a new respect for Jim Davis (because of his great attitude towards it) and a renewed interest in the genius that is the Garfield comic strip! I will definitely be in line for that book!