Garfield: Permanent Monday

p1. There's a subtle violation of cartooning conventional wisdom in the first panel. Time flows in a fluid, dynamic manner through com...

The staging here is Garfield 101: an outlandish sight gag is the punchline to a story about bad behavior, but remains off-panel, and is pres...

In every world except Garfield 's, automatic doors have sensors to protect people from being smashed in their mighty jaws. In Jon's...

Jon's father is such a dyed-in-the-wool hayseed that he can only think of women as breeding stock, and on top of that, absurdly evaluate...

In this strip, Jon tries to reconcile his former glumness about women with his recent successful relationship with Liz. In the first panel,...

Title Panel: In the spirit of radical, twisted Garfield self-referentiality, investigate the obnoxious/ funny Bean Me! non-game on the of...

At a glance, it may be a standard-issue "These Days Everybody Is On The Internet!" joke. Garfield is usually surprisingly in-to...

Choose which joke you like more: 1) There was a rabbit in this yard, and whether ironic or not, the passers-by were alerted to the pet by a ...

Garfield loves jokes that point out our conditioning to rules, control systems, and society's behavior restrictive constructs. By exte...

Affection in Garfield is an aggressive emotion, its most frequent expressions normally portrayed as unwelcome and overbearing. In its most...

Garfield often trades in the absence of objects, ideas or feelings to conjure the presence of a joke: food Garfield has stolen, Garfield...

The form of the Garfield Beware of Dog sign joke is normally that the sign seems absurdly specific or unlikely, then Garfield finds out it ...

Title Panel: Oh boy, Garfield, the gooey scrapings off your greasy spoon's grill are gray? Please serve me a pastrami sandwich and a f...

Beneath every close friendship runs a terrifying undercurrent of hatred. You know each others' pressure points, anxieties, and secrets....

Garfield could have, and would have done the same thing with his evening, whether Jon was home or not. One might protest another problem wi...

Jon may not know what a dress code is (seriously?), but it probably won't matter, since he customarily wears a jacket and tie on dates ...

Clarifications for the Curious: -We may assume Jon is not still making his Chuck E. Cheese requests from yesterday, but making reservations...

There exists the level on which this joke is simply that Jon plans to take Liz to Chuck E. Cheese, and naturally a woman of Liz's refine...

Disconnected Thoughts: -I've got to confess unusual amount of persona bias today, even for Permanent Monday . I love spit takes. In ph...

Title Panel: Normally a non sequitur opportunity to place Garfield and his name in unfamiliar context for no reason, today the title panel ...