Awesome bit of digging! I’d never seen those earlier strips of his, and I’ve seen a lot of comics in my life.
Garfield is bored, John is emotional, Garfield is bored
That’s indeed one of the strip templates that renders Garfield almost unreadable to me. One character’s completely absorbed in laziness, jadedness and aloofness, and one character is completely, inanely over the top as a counterpoint. That generally doesn’t entertain me, and I can’t relate to them, but then that’s just me.
Awesome bit of digging! I’d never seen those earlier strips of his, and I’ve seen a lot of comics in my life.
That’s indeed one of the strip templates that renders Garfield almost unreadable to me. One character’s completely absorbed in laziness, jadedness and aloofness, and one character is completely, inanely over the top as a counterpoint. That generally doesn’t entertain me, and I can’t relate to them, but then that’s just me.
FYI I posted all of the Jon strips in !garfield@lemmy.world a while back, starting with this one:
https://discuss.online/post/21851092
Fun fact, those are in the public domain due to lack of copyright notice when they were published
Excellent work. Always fascinating to see how major strips start off.
I still have to get to more of those early Schulz strips. Mainly just quality-control and formatting issues.