78: Garfield - Revision history

FaviFake: /* Transcript */ that was AI. its not useful at all

2025-10-07T19:20:05Z

‎Transcript: that was AI. its not useful at all

204.113.253.56: deleted request to go along with previous edit. Again, feel free to revert if needed. Still learning how to edit and crap

2025-10-07T16:06:30Z

deleted request to go along with previous edit. Again, feel free to revert if needed. Still learning how to edit and crap

Black Hat's Hat: adjusted some descriptions of the panels. idk if this is helpful, im learning how to edit. feel free to revert or whatever

2025-10-07T14:46:11Z

adjusted some descriptions of the panels. idk if this is helpful, im learning how to edit. feel free to revert or whatever

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2025-08-25T17:42:15Z

Undo revision 384980 by 2001:4450:813D:C800:3DC8:C498:516D:9F14 (talk) Learn wikimarkup *and* the site-specific Transcript style...)

2001:4450:813D:C800:3DC8:C498:516D:9F14 at 02:39, 25 August 2025

2025-08-25T02:39:17Z

82.132.238.122: /* Transcript */

2025-08-21T13:22:14Z

‎Transcript

82.132.238.122: Undo revision 384703 by 2001:4450:813D:C800:611E:7340:557D:76E3 (talk) Incorrect replacement of Transcript with Explanation-like thing.

2025-08-21T13:12:04Z

Undo revision 384703 by 2001:4450:813D:C800:611E:7340:557D:76E3 (talk) Incorrect replacement of Transcript with Explanation-like thing.

2001:4450:813D:C800:611E:7340:557D:76E3: /* Transcript */

2025-08-21T08:39:45Z

‎Transcript

FaviFake: thx

2025-04-21T07:26:16Z

thx

WaddleDeo: Moved a minor trivia bit to the trivia section, improved the transcript, and fixed a bit of wording.

2025-04-20T14:55:18Z

Moved a minor trivia bit to the trivia section, improved the transcript, and fixed a bit of wording.

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 ==Transcript==
 :[This strip takes the form of a parody of the traditional shape for Sunday installments of newspaper strips; specifically the half-page format.]
-:[All panels with just text are a lighter blue, while ones containing Garfield are a darker blue.]
+:[All panels with just text are a lighter blue, while ones containing Garfield are a darker blue. Garfield's words are all in white thought balloons.]
-:[I want to see something unexpected in comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
+:I want to see something unexpected in comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
 :[Garfield is standing on hind legs facing and looking directly at the camera. But is off-center in the frame, about 1/3 from the left, rotated very slightly clockwise.]
 :[Zoom in on Garfield, still to the left, now rotated slightly counterclockwise.]

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 ==Transcript==
-{{incomplete transcript|Need to describe the colours and the style better for people who aren't familiar with the newspaper style.
+{{incomplete transcript| An {{diff|384703|edit to this Transcript}} was reverted, as rather more like another Explanation ''and'' badly wikiformatted. Possibly ''some'' of might be useful here, but someone would need to check thoroughly.}}
 :[This strip takes the form of a parody of the traditional shape for Sunday installments of newspaper strips; specifically the half-page format.]
 :[All panels with just text are a lighter blue, while ones containing Garfield are a darker blue.]

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 :An {{diff|384703|edit to this Transcript}} was reverted, as rather more like another Explanation ''and'' badly wikiformatted. Possibly ''some'' of might be useful here, but someone would need to check thoroughly.}}
 :[This strip takes the form of a parody of the traditional shape for Sunday installments of newspaper strips; specifically the half-page format.]
-:I want to see something unexpected in comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
+:[All panels with just text are a lighter blue, while ones containing Garfield are a darker blue.]
 :[Garfield is standing on hind legs facing and looking directly at the camera. But is off-center in the frame, about 1/3 from the left, rotated very slightly clockwise.]
 :[Zoom in on Garfield, still to the left, now rotated slightly counterclockwise.]

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 ==Transcript==
 :[This strip takes the form of a parody of the traditional shape for Sunday installments of newspaper strips; specifically the half-page format.]
 :I want to see something unexpected in comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
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 :Garfield thought bubble: Run.
 :Caption below the comic: Jim Davis, throw off your commercial shackles. Challenge us. Go out in a blaze of Dadaist glory. There is still time.
 ==Trivia==

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 ==Transcript==
 :[This strip takes the form of a parody of the traditional shape for Sunday installments of newspaper strips; specifically the half-page format.]
 :I want to see something unexpected in comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
@@ Line 26: / Line 24: @@
 :Garfield thought bubble: Run.
 :Caption below the comic: Jim Davis, throw off your commercial shackles. Challenge us. Go out in a blaze of Dadaist glory. There is still time.
 ==Trivia==

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 ==Explanation==
-The newspaper comic strip {{w|Garfield}}, which features an orange cat as the main character, has increasingly been known for repetitive, quality-lacking strips. In the past, this was because the creator, {{w|Jim Davis (cartoonist)|Jim Davis}}, prefers to explore the same subjects he is comfortable with but in different ways — or from a less charitable view, because the strip is intended for a wide audience and thus becomes homogenized and inoffensive by nature. This attitude has only become more pronounced in the 21st century, as the aging Davis becomes less and less interested in the franchise. Regardless of the reason, these strips are now {{w|Ghostwriter|ghost written}} with little input from Davis and rarely explore the unconventional. The comic is challenging Davis to do something unexpected and surprise us all. The comic also accuses Davis of being a "sellout", sticking to bourgeois/commercial logic, something that Dadaist artists challenged. The comic number (78) corresponds to the year Garfield debuted (1978).
+The newspaper comic strip {{w|Garfield}}, which features an orange cat as the main character, has increasingly been known for repetitive, quality-lacking strips. In the past, this was because the creator, {{w|Jim Davis (cartoonist)|Jim Davis}}, prefers to explore the same subjects he is comfortable with but in different ways — or from a less charitable view, because the strip is intended for a wide audience and thus becomes homogenized and inoffensive by nature. This attitude has only become more pronounced in the 21st century, as the aging Davis becomes less and less interested in the franchise. Regardless of the reason, these strips are now {{w|Ghostwriter|ghost written}} with little input from Davis and rarely explore the unconventional. The comic is challenging Davis to do something unexpected and surprise us all. The comic also accuses Davis of being a "sellout", sticking to bourgeois/commercial logic, something that Dadaist artists challenged.
 {{w|Dadaism}} was an artistic movement in the early 20th century marked primarily by chaos, irrationality, and surrealism. Some of the artists believed that the bourgeois logic made human beings unhappy and therefore led to war. [[Randall Munroe|Randall]] leads by example by featuring a strip that parodies the style of Garfield, with multiple colors (xkcd usually contains only black and white, with some few containing an additional color like red or yellow) and a character that is not a stick figure breaking the normal xkcd pattern. Another Dadaist aspect is the fact that while Garfield is smiling, he is communicating something that could be considered terrifying.
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 ==Transcript==
 :I want to see something unexpected in comics. Just one strip could make up for it all.
 :[Garfield is standing on hind legs facing and looking directly at the camera. But is off-center in the frame, about 1/3 from the left, rotated very slightly clockwise.]
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 ==Trivia==
-This is the first comic to use all-caps lettering, the second being [[90: Jacket]]. The all-caps lettering in this strip may be related to the original comic.
+*This is the first comic to use all-caps lettering, the second being [[90: Jacket]]. The all-caps lettering in this strip is likely due to the fact that most newspaper strips, such as Garfield, use all-caps lettering to make it easier to distinguish letters under poor printing quality quite possible with newsprint.
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