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Pass the Lasagna Cat
By Hodgeshallnotbeshot | January 17, 2008
Once as grade-schoolers we had a long conversation about how bizarre the Peanuts gang would look as real people: bald, big-headed Charlie Brown, stringy-haired Linus, filthy Pigpen. Perhaps that’s why our favorite part of Fatal Farm’s new series of Garfield comic strip reenactments/music video tributes is the actor who plays Jon Arbuckle. We choose to post this one, as it includes G’s classic Monday hatred (as well as a classic, Prince-written Bangles song), but the series as a whole explores such a wealth of different styles in bringing Jim Davis’ creation to disturbing life that all the videos are worth a look.
Of course, some maintain that Garfield is disturbing enough on its own. They theorize that an uncharacteristically dark series of strips from October 1989 reveals the horrible truth behind Davis’ art — that the comfy domestic squabbles comprising the bulk of Garfield gags are but an illusion, the fantasy of a stray cat slowly starving to death in an abandoned house:
Death of Garfield? (Boing Boing)
Topics: Lasagna Cat, Garfield, art |