Garfield Minus Garfield (2008)

added Aug 24, 2009 at 05:12AM UTC

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Garfield Minus Garfield is a web based comic strip created by Dan Walsh that rose to prominence in 2008. Each strip is a reprint of previous Garfield strips but with a twist. The titular character is digitally removed from them and generally just consists of Garfield’s owner John Arbuckle interacting with himself. The Strips website characterizes it as “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”.

Origin

While Garfield Minus Garfield was the first site dedicated and is believed to be responsible for the popularity of the strip. Creator Dan Walsh has said in an interview that he did not come up with the original idea:

C.L.: How did you get the idea for Garfield Minus Garfield?

D.W.: I didn’t! The idea had been floating around on message boards for a couple years before I started posting them. I wasn’t the first person to come up with the premise for Garfield Minus Garfield, but I think it’s fair to say I did champion and popularize it. As far I know, I was the first person to create a site devoted to it. It’s pretty much impossible to find who did it first—believe me, I’ve tried."

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There is also a variation on garfield minus garfield posted on an internet messageboard in early 2006. It depicts the character of Garfield without any of his speech or thought bubbles.

Garfield Without Speech

Other Garfield Parodies inspired by Garfield Minus Garfield include

Garfield as Garfield

Garfield Minus Everyone Plus Tony Orlando & Dawn

Square Root of Minus Garfield

See the “Garfield Parodies” sub-meme entry for a wider look at Garfield parodies found online.

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Chris Menning
Aug 24, 2009 at 05:59AM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Sorry, a parody series created by one person isn’t a meme. It’s a viral phenomenon, sure, but the replicator here is the main artist, not a group of people.

Frketson
Aug 24, 2009 at 06:08AM UTC , Frketson wrote:

He created it but it wasnt just him doing this, he said he helped it rise to prominence but there were people before him doing it and as it became popular more and more people did it themselves due to the ease of editing the strips.

Chris Menning
Aug 25, 2009 at 03:16PM UTC , Chris Menning wrote:

Ah-hah! That’s a key I didn’t know about. Rescuing from Deadpool.

Frketson
Aug 25, 2009 at 10:01PM UTC , Frketson wrote:

my hero!

I’ll try and find hard evidence of others doing it as well other than just a quote from him on the garfield minus garfield wikipedia page.

Frketson
Sep 08, 2009 at 10:49PM UTC , Frketson wrote:

hey thanks for those links man, really good stuff finding all that, have added some of those links to the article.

Carpeteria
Sep 20, 2009 at 10:21PM UTC , Carpeteria wrote:

Sure thing!

Steven R.
Nov 16, 2009 at 06:22PM UTC , Steven R. wrote:

Considering said info, confirmed.

Jostin Asuncion
Nov 19, 2009 at 10:59PM UTC , Jostin Asuncion wrote:

Considering the popularity of the “Garfield Minus Garfield” phenomenon compared to any of the other Garfield parodies, I think that putting the parodies page under this as a sub-meme instead of the other way around would be more appropriate. After that…

+1 Confirm

HackerOnHacker
Dec 10, 2009 at 11:43PM UTC , HackerOnHacker wrote:

Here’s a page with a similar concept, only instead of removing Garfield from Garfield, it removes female characters from xkcd. I guess it could count as an imitation.

http://sites.google.com/site/ryanbroomfield/xkcd-sans-women

PSE1nf0
Dec 20, 2009 at 12:46AM UTC , PSE1nf0 wrote:

I have just added some strips from the Garfield Minus Garfield website. I’m trying to look for ones I find notable or humorous.

Vindictivetaco
Dec 24, 2009 at 11:51PM UTC , Vindictivetaco wrote:

its like the monologues from a mad man.

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