Garfield by Jim Davis for July 04, 2010

Where’s the wheels for the pig?

Both drawings are good.

Orson! That’s where you’ve been!

Hey yeah, that is Orson. That is one of the cartoons that I miss with not seeing Garfield any longer.

We need more cameo appearances of other U.S. Acres characters. Wade and Sheldon rule!

My garfield is gud artist than jon…..anyway keep it on….GARFIELD

No one outdraws Garfield.

A great reminder from Jim Davis: a comic artist has to be an artist first. The economy and simplicity of a comic artist’s style is the goal, not the starting point – it comes from years of starting with reality and learning to strip away everything that isn’t absolutely necessary.

Thanks for all the years of Garfield, Jim. You rock!

why did US acres end? it was such a great comic strip!

Oh JON! You are soooooooo JEALOUS! Just say OINK! OINK!

Good grief! Garfield is right. Jon will not outdraw Garfield for that picture, eh!

Garfield in on Cartoon Network - can’t remember which days - but he’s on TV again.

I have to side with “Pablo” on this one - If I picture a real live adult pig, Jon’s drawing feels right - he does “capture its porkness” (despite the fact that it’s standing up like a person). Garfield’s portrait on the other hand (although a good likeness of a baby pig), seems unreal or insubstantial in character. It has all the bells and whistles, and it plays on the character of “Babe”, but it doesn’t show a real pig.

Sophistication does not replace character - and an artist must sometimes alter “accuracy” to show individuality. I’ll go with Porky.

Hmm. I don’t think the pig is quite Orson this time, but he’s pretty close. It’s enough to remind me to post another “Please bring back U.S. Acres!” remark, though.

So here goes:

Please bring back U.S. Acres!

;-)

Ohh…Garfield has so many hidden talents!! Doesn’t seem so from his face :-D

I want Sheldon, Lanolin, Wade and Roy back :-)

Nice nod to the 1990’s Garfield show, with Orson the pig! thumbsup Way to cater to the fans!

sweet

sweet

Jon can outdraw Garfield when pigs fly.

Looks more like a bear then a pig

Haven’t we all been clamouring for some Orson et al? it appears that Mr. Davis listens to us!

Oh, I love the intro panel! LOL

Flying pigs say, “Cincinnati.” We have them on steamwheeler smokestacks and we’ve had a contest to decorate them in the past. :-)

This would be the ultimate Garfield minus Garfield!

Awesome. I did not know Garfield knew how to draw.

bestis2come, that is the strangest argument in favor of one piece of art over another that I’ve ever seen.

The winged pig is not only realistic, it’s almost “mythically naturalistic” (with apologies to Jonathon Earl Bowser). These’s nothing unsubstantial about it, quite the contrary. The Orson-like cartoon is just that - a cartoon - yet at its heart it’s no more and no less realistic than the other.

So what you’re saying in the end is that Garfield prefers oranges and you prefer apples.

yes, please at least bring back us acres complete a trifecta with garfield and gmg

It’s pretty sad when a cartoonist like Jon is outmastered in simple drawing by his own cat!

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About the end of “U.S. Acres”, most people couldn’t relate the strip’s more “cerebral” humor to the most successful strip of the 1980’s (actually the comic carried two signatures during its’ final months – as either “Jim Davis/Brett Koth” or “Davis & Koth”), apart from the fact the strip changed styles at a weird pace (These facts brought many criticisms from most cartoonists and readers – specifically about if Davis had any ghostwriters, explaining the “Jim Davis A Fraud” joke on one of the Garfield compilations -, and if a strip is very hated – even if in this case was somewhat exaggerated -, it’s better to end it, and so Orson and the gang moved to television, and the rest is history.

A cartoonist (draws cartoons) not a realist

THEY’LL MAKE MILLIONS!

I prefer Jon’s better.

I really wish this comic strip showed more cameo appearances of U.S. Acres characters. What would be even better is if they made a physical appearance in the strip itself.

he did that in seconds???

It is kind of sad that Jon is a cartoonist and can’t out draw his cat.