[incanus77]

I had a bunch of Garfield books as a kid, too. IIRC they were about 9”x6” and mostly black & white. I found them hilarious, I think for a couple reasons:

1. John was such a clueless loser

2. Garfield got so enraged at Nermal

3. Odie kept bouncing back

This was not a deep humor. It’s the kind of humor where you see a dumb, funny video on the internet, snort a laugh, and move on, completely forgetting it ten seconds later.

[ksaj]

I always thought of it as anti-humour, which is a form of humour in and of itself. A lot of almost-joke scenes that just sort of stop without actually going anywhere.

I liked Garfield because it dead-panned things that otherwise would have been funny. Hated the television cartoon version though.