What’s in a link?

I thought I would start with webcomics. garfield minus garfield is an amazing frightening beautiful

comic. I really feel for Jon trapping the the world he is with no escape.

What I find interesting is the fact that in my head I read each comic twice. Once without Garfield and once with Garfield mentally substituting him in. this gives each comic interesting interpretations like May 16 I know that this is a comic about Garfield landing on Jon. Yet it could also be a frightening comic about the existential terror of facing each new day.

For those who need more, there is the Garfield strip generator and nothing Garfield found via the visual linguist blog.

The Garfield strip generator leaves me with a new appreciation of the Garfield comic strip. The formal simplicity of this strip is beautiful.

The art is so refined it ceases to be realistic representation it transforms into pure abstract symbols. Because of this every panel has a simple cohesive form. It then doesn’t matter where each panel comes from because each will be made of the same library of symbols repeated.

Its the points of difference in each panel which then creates the story. Jon, Garfield and the horizontal line near the bottom of the panel are all recurring symbols in each panel.

Thanks to Dick for showing Garfield minus Garfield one day.

Tags: webcomic, what's in a link

This entry was posted on Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pm and is filed under blog. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.