By taking Garfield out of the strip.
This guy's mission statement at the top of the page says it all. Once you are willing to go with the conceit, strips can be pretty poignant, as well as damn funny.
The minimized dialogue really makes you focus in on the "performance." Even three panels where nothing changes, that's a bold performance.
Some of my favorites are here, here, here, and here.
[c/o Daring Fireball]
Thursday, February 28, 2008
How Do You Make "Garfield" Better?
1 comments:
I saw this through Penny Arcade yesterday... best find of the day. Convincing me that Garfield is brilliant takes a special genius.
They had another link in the same post that was a LITTLE less successful in garnering respect for Garfield, but perhaps even more successful in the WTF department:
http://www.lasagnacat.com/
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