Garfield Goes Crazy

Its always interesting to see what people think about comics in the newspapers. While some comics such as The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbs are beloved by many other comics may have much smaller groups of fan. In fact depending on how wide a comic's circulation is, many people may not know about it at all.

For example, I myself had never heard of Over the Hedge before the movie came out because my newspaper didn't cary the strip.

One strip that is known by most, regardless of how often they read the "funny papers" is Garfield written by Jim Davis. Some people love it, some despise the strip. Some only think its funny when Garfield is edited out and John changes from a humble pet owner to a paranoid skitsophrenic who wanders around his house talking to himself.

(See Garfield minus Garfield for a whole new look at Jon. )

But it turns out that Garfield doesn't need outside help for the strip's story to be about strange mental delusions. In October of 1989, for one week the plot of Garfield took a strange turn that included the idea that Garfield all happened in the mind of the cat.

(Bigger sizes of the comic can be found here)

To further confirm this bizarre moment in comic history, you can find the comics also on the official Garfield page starting here