Happy 40th Birthday Garfield

[MarcB]

Everyone's favorite fat, lazy, orange, lasagna-loving cat Garfield turns 40 today.

Here's today's comic: https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/2018/06/19

Norm Feuti who draws the comic strip "Retail" a comic strip about working at a department store did a salute to Garfield that appears in a new Garfield 40th Anniversary book. It includes the joke that customers always assume that the product they want is in the backroom when they can't find it on the sales floor.

https://www.facebook.com/retailcomi...851102999892/1774215635996756/?type=3&theater

 

[Silkie]

He's just a kitten.

 

[vchimpanzee]

One strip last week suggested he was turning 40, but no actual cat has ever turned 40.

Although if he really was, that would make him older than Jon.

It's my favorite comic strip, and there's a new version I learned about several years ago, which publishes three times a week, where Garfield is missing from the strip. Some people say the revised strip makes Jon look mentally disturbed. Others say the gags work fine without Garfield.

 

[firepoint525]

He's just a kitten.

Yep, doesn't look a day over five!

One strip last week suggested he was turning 40, but no actual cat has ever turned 40.

Recently, I heard about a cat who had just turned 30. He did not hold the record. The record-holding cat was born in 1967 and died in 2005, making him 38.

Our cat, by comparison, will be eight on her next birthday. She is just a kitten compared to these!

 

[anotherguyTN]

I have a cat that is 14 and he is still getting around good and has the attitude of Garfield!

 

[Forlifelles]

Garfield and Felix the Cat are my only favorite cats lol.

 

[vchimpanzee]

If this is the same cat, my neighbors still have a cat who would come over to my house with his mother and sister as a kitten. The cat kept on coming over a lot after she grew up but doesn't visit that much lately, although she was in my yard this morning. This cat's mother had another litter, and they grew up. One of the cats looked just like one my pastor brought with her when she moved into the community in 2008. That makes the cat at least 12, if it is the same cat. I'm always afraid to ask my neighbors about their cats because I don't necessarily want to know the truth about the ones I don't see any more. I always assume the missing cats went home with family members..