Garfield comes to Cartoon Network?

[Brandon Pierce]

Acording to the Dennis The Menace thread Garfield and Friends might make its way to CN. I hope, I hope, I hope. Also, do you like my Garfield Avatar?

[TServo2049]

No. It was ALREADY on CN from 1996-98. That's what I said.

[Brandon Pierce]

D'OH!

[kiddiesunshine]

I like Garfield! I used to draw all the characters when I was about 10. I used to draw all kinds of cartoon characters (I'm an artist. Tee hee hee). I used to make specialty cards for famiiy members on special occasions. I moved on to anime, so I don't draw American cartoons anymore. Nice Garfield avatar by the way.

[The Dork Knight]

Garfield won't be coming to CN. Sadly it will be coming to Fox Family. Don't know when. It'll probably be edited. :(

[Matthew Hunter]

What in the world could be edited from Garfield? Garfield's great! The cartoon is not as good as the comic strip, however. And what is UP with that strip lately? The only activity Garfield engages in anymore is insulting Jon. For the REAL Garfield, buy one of the compilation books made pre-1998.
-Matthew

[Jack]

Jim Davis has a sort of cartoon factory going, he doesn't even draw the strip anymore. Rather, I think someone pencils it in, and someone else inks it in. I don't even think he writes it anymore, it's gone WAY downhill lately. Comic strips have been lackluster lately, most new ones can be funny, but they have some of the most hidious or sterile graphics to ever be put into a newspaper. Some people think only good writing can save a comic strip, but Comic strips are a visual medium more than anything else.

The older ones have fallen into ruts, rehashing the same things over and over again. "Hi and Lois" is a perfect example.

I'd have to say that "Calvin and Hobbes" is the best comic strip of the past two decades, funny writing, lovely drawings. Who can ask for anything more? There are a few recent ones that I think are really becoming something, though. I really like "Mutts" for its subtle humor.


Jack:D

[AuroraSzalinski]

I really noticed the decline in Garfield too. It used to be fairly funny and creative, and I loved the cartoon show, but lately it's been the same thing every day.

My favorite comics ever are Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side and Dilbert. I also like Fox Trot, Zits and the vintage Peanuts. Pretty much everything else in our paper is rubbish. :(

[Joe Tully]

Calvin and Hobbes was really great, my favorite current comic strip is Monty (until recently known as Robot Man). I'm guessing that Jim Meddick's rights to use the Robotman character ran out a little while ago, since the character has disappeared. Too bad. The Robotman character was going to be in a cartoon series, but I think the pilot/special didn't do well enough. Fortunately, the strip that was to serve as a kind of advertisement did better. I have quite a few of the Robotman toys somewhere in my house.

[Patrick McCart]

Bill Watterson was asked to put Robotman into Calvin and Hobbes and he refused. I guess he wanted to do something original for a change. :D

[Matthew Hunter]

If Bill Watterson and/or Gary Larson are reading this: Come BACK! save our funny papers from becoming an unfunny and unoriginal wasteland!
-Matthew

[Jack]

Why did Watterson retire anyway? Thre strip didn't seem like it was running low on steam, and it wasn't all that old. I heard that popularity was a little too much for him, and as soon as he retired, he moved to a little New England town. You can buy autographed books there, I guess. I also heard that the town he moved to is the same one a giant Calvin smashes through on the back cover on one of his books (forgot the title, but I've seen it at stores).


Jack:D

[Lonestarr]

Mutts
Funky Winkerbean
Dilbert
Zits
(Edit): Randolph Itch, 2 a.m.

There's something I gotta know: do any of the (pardon the expression) old hands do their own strips anymore? After Jeff MacNelly passed on a couple years back, Shoe (which I still enjoy) was handled by two guys who, according to a newspaper article, were hand-picked by MacNelly, before his death, to carry on the strip. And according to Hank Ketcham's obituary, Ketcham stopped drawing "Dennis the Menace" long ago. I like what Charles Schulz said on A&E Biography: (I'm paraphrasing, here). "Would you get someone to paint Picasso's paintings after he died?"

[Brandon Pierce]

I kinda like the new strip Get Fuzzy. The cat Bucky reminds me of a younger Garfield. How long has this strip been around? The first time I saw it was a few years ago. When did it come out? Just wondering.

[daftchris]

Of still-running strips, I like Fox Trot, Red Meat, Get Fuzzy, and Zippy the Pinhead.
Fox Trot is the only one of these my local papers carry. I read my comics online.