Garfield

     As I was looking for some comics online, I came across Garfield comic strips by Jim Davis. I use to love reading these comics in the newspaper when I was in high school. Instead of doing some homework during study hall, I would grab the newspaper that would be in the class room and just read the comic strips in it.

   

     The ones in the newspaper were in black in white of course. What I really like about these is that they are so simple. Yes, they can be rather boring. Especially if you are used to reading longer and action packed comics, but these are mainly for humor. Some of course are funnier than others and also some are a few panels longer as well. Like this one:

     In these Garfield comics I noticed that there isn't much background going on and the characters are almost always in the same spot from panel to panel. I assume that there isn't much of a background because 1) the main focus is on the characters and 2) a Garfield comic strip comes out everyday so the artist's time is spent more on the characters and wouldn't have to worry so much about doing backgrounds all the time. There are a few that the scenery changes once in a while depending on what the characters are doing. So it's nice to see a change in scenery from time to time. But for the most part almost all of the Garfield comic strips have a blank background.