Garfield by Jim Davis for January 04, 2013

No, Jim, say it ain’t so!

You have to work first before you retire Garfield.

I wonder if we would notice any difference.

oh dear Jim isn’t trying to suggest anything here right?

Nothing stays fresh forever. You try keeping a daily strip going for the same length of time.

Hmmmmmm, good point. Keep in mind: Jim Davis has been cranking out Garfield strips since June 19, 1978 , i.e. more than 34 years. Remember: Cathy Guisewite retired on October 3, 2010 after 34 years of creating the strip “Cathy”.

Not funny, but nice pun. Besides, the whole Paws team has a lot of artists, writers, editors, you name it that makes up a strip. Plus, Jim makes strips 8-10 weeks in advance, no more, no less. There’s NO way that this strip’ll retire after this date. NO WAY, JOSE

What about Blondie? and Archie? and Doonesbury? and Gasoline Alley?

Retire from what? Taking naps in the middle of the day?

LOL xxx

The world IS coming to an end!!!!

I’ll take a villa too please. Garfield has gone the same route as Snoopy I think.

Garfield will never retire even if they do begin rerunning the strips like they’ve done with others. I still remember the first ones and how funny they were. Bring it on and let Mr. Davis retire.

A good strip for GMG.

You said: “Now 4 boring ones in a row!…”-————————————————-When Garfield gets his villa, you can supply the whine.Okay, you don’t find them funny, but jeez…

I hope that this isn’t an indication by Jim Davis himself that he’s thinking of hanging up his pen, so to speak. Garfield will live on forever of course

Garf your villa is the doghouse.

no one retires in the U.S. anymore. Doomed to work until you fall face first into your keyboard.

if this ends, we’ll never get to see if Jon marries or Garfield Dies!

Guys, I think it was just a joke. Jim has about 10 more years of writing Garfield before he retires. When or if he retires, before he does, he’ll pry teach his son or someone to draw this. If it’s HIS work only, then I will think Jim Davis retires when he is about a little bit from 80 years old. I think Garfield was saying he was going to retire from being annoying. He’ll go up a step or step down to be MORE annoying or being a little sensitive. Hopefully nothing is wrong.

I, too, hope Jim will continue with the “Garfield” strips. I’ve read every comic, and look forward to more in the days to come.

I think that Garfield was speaking in the slightly British sense, retire meaning “go to sleep to rest for the night”.

Please Nooooooooooooooooooooooo

Bye Garfield. We’ll give you a bed as your villa.

retire of what? eating and sleeping

Retire from what exactly?

He never did anything to retire! XD

Retiring would require you having a job in the first place Garfield.

Garf seems strangely thin in this one.