Thursday, April 1, 2010

June 23, 1978: Happiness is....


It never ceases to amaze me how different the strip looked in the early days. Well, at least he stopped doing those saccharine "Happiness is..." bits.

8 comments:

  1. ...That might actually be a subject worthy of study. Huh.

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  2. Seriously. Garfield was fall-off-your-chair funny in the first year or so - and then went completely downhill.

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  3. stanharding: I actually used to be a big fan of Garfield as a kid, I had all the books going up to about #20. I still have a bunch of Garfield merchandise somewhere stored, although really it was my Mom who collected most of it. And the Garfield Saturday morning show was often inspired.

    Yeah, it's a shadow of its former self.

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  5. This was the only April Fools joke I saw this year that genuinely made me laugh out loud for real with actual surprise!

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