A comic strip has caused a political uproar by making a bold, controversial statement on Veteran's Day, considered by some to be an insult to our nation's fighting men and women. The strip that has spit on the work of our country's bravest veterans is, as you would expect, that anti-American bastion of subversive vitriolic societal commentary,
Garfield.
posted by XQUZYPHYR
on Nov 11, 2010 -
146 comments
Although they admit a mutual fondness for a
good burger and fries now and then, the President and First Lady Michelle Obama try to
emphasize healthy eating at the White House. In 2009, the White House had its first
vegetable garden since Eleanor Roosevelt’s World War II
victory garden. This is quite a change to the meal President Eisenhower sat down to a little more than 50 years ago at the USDA's Beltsville Research Station. Eisenhower's
own method of cooking a steak was not on the menu, as the showcase meal featured 22 “
new and improved” foods, including modified milk containing increased nonfat milk solids and decreased butter, dehydrofrozen peas, orange juice reconstituted from a dehydrated powder, beef and pork grown with newly discovered hormones and antibiotics added, and “butter prepared, presumably, by the usual methods.” Our national conversation about food goes on and the White House will likely
continue be at the center of it. Hopefully, we don’t end up with President Garfield's
last meal as a White House canteen staple [
recipe, including tip on getting rid of the “troublesome little bones.”]
Bon Appetit!
posted by webhund
on May 11, 2010 -
34 comments
Garfield minus Garfield: "Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life?"
posted by SpacemanStix
on Feb 26, 2008 -
127 comments
Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue was an animated drug prevention television special starring many popular cartoon characters from American Saturday morning television. Airing in 1990 and financed by McDonald's, it was simulcast on all three major American television networks. The VHS home video edition of the special also opened with an introduction from then-President George Bush Snr and Barbara Bush.
And thanks to the wonders of the interwebs, you can watch the whole thing here. And you really should. After all, where else are you going to get to hear cartoon characters like Garfield and Winnie the Pooh talking about smoking crack and shooting juice?
[more inside]
posted by Effigy2000
on Dec 3, 2007 -
48 comments
Jim Davis' other strip was
U.S. Acres, with Orson the Pig, Roy the Rooster, chick and egg Booker and Sheldon, sheep Bo and Lanolyn, and...
a dog named Cody and a cat named Blue? Everyone who grew up from that time remembers the long-running Saturday morning show, but no one remembers the strip, which ended a couple of years before the cartoon did and evolved on a different track. Platypus Comix brings us highlights from the strip's
surprisingly good, yet neglected, newspaper run.
posted by JHarris
on Jun 12, 2007 -
29 comments
Barfield is Garfield with banality largely replaced by puerility. As such, it's a tad NSFW.
posted by Wolfdog
on Mar 8, 2007 -
39 comments
I hate mondays. I love lasagna. I like naps. I hate Odie. I bet anyone of you people is funnier than Jim Davis' Garfield. Here's your
chance.
posted by elwoodwiles
on Oct 21, 2004 -
20 comments
Garfield: The Movie: The Novelization Experience the pending awfulness first hand, then the relief of knowing you didn't have to write it. So far, this forthcoming movie is to be considered the
Worst Film of 2004, until an upstart comes along.
posted by Down10
on Mar 11, 2004 -
50 comments
When I was in college in the early 90s (B.W. -- before web), I used to subscribe to the daily newspaper just to get my comics fix every morning (back when Bill Waterson, Gary Larson, and Berkeley Breathed were king). Then the web came along and I had to suffer through
the only (unfunny) cartoonist to embrace the web. But not anymore. With stuff like
Comics-via-RSS and
Comictastic I can fire up an app and start laughing every morning. I doubt I ever buy a newspaper again for the funny pages, and on top of that, these even let me avoid
the lame ones I don't care about.
posted by mathowie
on Dec 4, 2003 -
24 comments
Clinton opts
not to become the first prexy since Garfield and Harding (who? kidding) not to visit Nebraska during his term in office. Obviously, he's trying to avoid the dreaded curse: "Both Garfield and Harding died before completing their terms." Coincidence or Illuminati subterfuge?
posted by highindustrial
on Nov 29, 2000 -
8 comments
