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Garfield Minus Garfield: From Web Sensation To Book In Less Than A Year

Source: ReadWriteWeb

Aug 07, 2008

Summary

If you have not yet checked out the online sensation Garfield Minus Garfield, you have been missing out. Launched in February of 2008, this comic is a unique version of Jim Davis' "Garfield" which provides an entirely different vantage point on Jon Arbuckle's life simply by removing the lasagna-loving cat from all the frames. Without Garfield, the comic is no longer a silly strip for children but instead reveals "the existential angst..of Mr. Jon Arbuckle...as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb," says the creator, Dan Walsh.

What About Copyright Issues?

With today's obsession with our "culture of ownership," where everything from the music we listen to the photos used in blog posts to the blog comments themselves are "owned" by someone and have varying rights of use associated with them, you would imagine that such a creation as "Garfield Minus Garfield" would have been shut down by the copyright cops long before it had a chance to create an online following.