78: Garfield
Explanation
Garfield has been known for repetitive, poorly written strips. Intended for a wide audience, these strips are now ghost written and do not do anything unconventional. The author is encouraging Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, to do something unexpected and surprise us all.
Dadaism was an artistic movement in the early 20th century marked primarily by chaos, irrationality and surrealism.
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 offcenter 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.]
- [Zoom in again on Garfield, now the frame clips off the left side of his face.]
- Garfield thought bubble: The world is burning.
- [Final zoom in, the frame is ripped like a page, offset, and Garfield's eyes are half closed on the right half.]
- Garfield thought bubble: Run.
- {Jim Davis, throw off your commercial shackles. Challenge us. Go out in a blaze of Dadaist glory. There is still time.