Comic Stripped

If you still doubt the awesome power of the Internet, consider this: it has the power to make Garfield funny again. Garfield Minus Garfield, at garfieldminusgarfield.tumblr.com is a website that republishes old Garfield strips doctored so that Garfield himself isn't there. All you see is a lonely and apparently demented Jon Arbuckle wandering an empty landscape of countertops and refrigerators, lasagna and coffee. "Who would have guessed," writes the site's author, who identifies himself as Dan Walsh, 32, of Dublin, Ireland, "that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about...

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