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Teachers boycott standardized testing

showbiz_liz — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:29:24 -0800

Teachers at two Seattle high schools have decided to boycott a district-required standardized test. The boycott began at Garfield High School, and has since spread to Ballard High School. All teachers at both schools support the boycott. (Here are the thoughts of one teacher; here's a former student and current education reform advocate.) The required Measures of Academic Progress (MAP) exams, which test reading and math, are given two to three times a year. But one teacher spokesman said the test “produces specious results, and wreaks havoc on limited school resources” during the weeks the test is administered.

In present day, Garfield and Jon have oval shaped eyes, but when drawing this poster I wanted the look from the Garfield of the early 80's, when E.T. was made.

dubold — Sun, 26 Feb 2012 06:48:06 -0800

Charles Forsman (previously) has created another Spielberg/funny pages mashup: E.T. + Garfield more info here:BEEEEEEE GOOD prints available here

Hark the Herald Channels Sing

griphus — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 15:49:38 -0800

In honor of Christmas, Splitsider's Mike Drucker runs down twenty Christmas TV episodes, new and old. It all starts with The Dick Van Dyke Show... ...and the rest: A Charlie Brown Christmas South Park Family Guy Mork & Mindy Futurama Moral Orel Father Knows Best Saturday Night Live The Simpsons Parks and Recreation 30 Rock Tiny Toons Adventures Star Wars The Mary Tyler Moore Show Studio 60 on Sunset Strip The Bob Newhart Show Mystery Science Theater 3000: Santa Claus Conquers The Martians Garfield Community

Garfield's Royal Rescue, Part 2

JoeGoblin — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 12:20:27 -0800

The latest entry in ToplessRobot's ongoing Fan Fiction Friday series, will probably be the greatest thing you read all month. Ladies and gentlemen, Garfield's Royal Rescue, Part 2 One of the less insane excerpts: "It was Jon Arbuckle on the hillside with hair blowing in wind and sun blazing behind him! Jon Arbuckle took out his flaming lasagna electric guitar and started playing cords of power. The rockin metal began giving power to Garfield muscles recharging them with rock. The power of metal ran through Garfield's massive muscles and he broke free of chains with ease."

Garfield hates the troops

XQUZYPHYR — Thu, 11 Nov 2010 12:00:27 -0800

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.

102 Alternatives to the Default Facebook Profile Picture

WCityMike — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:55:23 -0800

102 Alternatives to the Default Facebook Profile Picture.

Food of the Times: Presidential Gastronomy

webhund — Tue, 11 May 2010 12:23:37 -0800

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!

Darkseid IS!

Artw — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 09:26:20 -0800

Darkseid Minus New Gods, in the style of Garfield without Garfield (via)

Fast-talker

not_on_display — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 16:08:21 -0800

A sampling from John Moschitta Jr.'s oeuvre: Minute Rice • Northern Exposure Series Recap • The Theory of Evolution in One Minute • As "Blurr" on Transformers • As Supersonic Seymour on Garfield and Friends • On Sesame Street: 1 2 • As the Micro Machines guy: 1 2 • And the role that catapulted him to fame

The Motorots are attacking Zantoo!

Servo5678 — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 09:57:06 -0800

Invasion of the Big Robots! Say what you will about the decline of Garfield, but he had his brighter moments, like the time he woke up in the wrong cartoon and had to fight the big robots. Garfield and Friends writer Mark Evanier tells the story behind this budget-busting episode. [Previously] Says Mark: "As it turned out, it was a good investment. When the network people saw the storyboard, they thought the episode was so clever that they gave the series an early pick-up for the following season. That saved the studio a lot of money...way more than the overage on this cartoon. Sometimes, it's cost-effective to spend money."

The Cat Came Back

ardgedee — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:24:35 -0800

Garfield Minus Garfield Plus Garfield Minus Garfield Previously

Garkov -- Garfield + Markov chains

not_on_display — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:31:44 -0800

Garkov -- Garfield + Markov chains [via mefi projects]

Comics are funny when you change them (sometimes)

SpacemanStix — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 13:36:36 -0800

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?"

Lasagna Cat

Prospero — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 13:57:49 -0800

Faithful live-action recreations of "classic" Garfield comic strips. (Quicktime required.)

Conservative Cartoon All-Stars To The Rescue!

Effigy2000 — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 15:16:11 -0800

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? If you don't want to (or simply can't bear to) sit through the whole thing, at the very least you should subject yourself to the horrors of what is arguably one of the worst songs in animated TV specials history ever, Wonderful Ways to Say No, where the collected group of characters explain all the ways you can say no to drugs. It' worth it just for the irony of seeing Kermit the Frog telling kids to say no to drugs despite the fact Henson practically conceived the character in a drug fuelled haze (previously).

The Garfield Variations

Falconetti — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 16:28:07 -0800

The Garfield Variations [nsfw]

"You! You're not Sylvia! You're one of the Kung Fu creatures on the rampage! Two!"

Servo5678 — Sat, 04 Aug 2007 12:52:28 -0800

"HEEEEEEEY, KIDS!" When you want to know about the history of TV's Garfield and Friends, sometimes you have to go directly to the source. Or to a devoted fan. Marvel at the majestic Klopman Diamond, recoil in fear from the Kung Fu creatures on the rampage, and join up with ants who ruin your dinner.

What was the deal with Wade's innertube? Conjoined twin?

JHarris — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:06:24 -0800

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.

I, personally, don't laugh at this sort of thing.

Wolfdog — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 04:24:42 -0800

Barfield is Garfield with banality largely replaced by puerility. As such, it's a tad NSFW.

gah-feeld?

onkelchrispy — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 19:44:24 -0800

Garfield is dead...maybe. (Warning: Obnoxious music)

A Man Outstanding In Garfield

cortex — Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:49:42 -0800

Garfield, Deconstructed! An engaging, adoring daily analysis of Garfield—behold such a lens through which even Jim Davis' legacy starts to seem redeemable.

Garfield without Garfield

Johnny Assay — Fri, 10 Feb 2006 09:50:12 -0800

"I hypothesize that if you remove all the text of Garfield's speech, or thoughts, or whatever that is, that it becomes an oddly surrealist comic."

Sleeeeeepy

elwoodwiles — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 13:22:18 -0800

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.

Put it on my tabby.

Down10 — Thu, 11 Mar 2004 01:42:26 -0800

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.

The business model of the funny pages

mathowie — Thu, 04 Dec 2003 17:09:44 -0800

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.