Thursday's strip showed a spider warning the comic's featured cat, the lazy and overweight Garfield, that if the feline "squishes" him, an annual day of remembrance will be held in his honor. Garfield, who frequently crushes spiders in the series, apparently is undeterred and the strip closes with a classroom of spiders being asked why they celebrate "National Stupid Day." The cartoon drew such Internet comments as "Surely this isn't in the best of taste for Armistice Day/Veterans Day'' and that Garfield creator Jim Davis "is way off the mark with this cartoon. Shame on him." http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&sour...gK2jDw&usg=AFQjCNEhLsWXqViSU18LyB-yq6UOIZUlaQ
` There are actually people who read Garfield ? Maybe there's a use for this "National Stupid Day" after all.
C'mon guy's he wrote the cartoon almost a year ago! Find something else to bitch about Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! KRR
Garfield is funny. But I can understand people being offended, because alot of people have either gone through hell fighting in wars, or they have lost loved ones to wars. I feel like Jim Davis is entitled to his own opinion, but he probably should have kept that joke to himself. I think he feels the same way now, because he wound up apologizing.
Davis didn't write this cartoon to be published on Veterans Day. He wrote it a year ago and, as luck would have it, it happened to be published on Veterans Day. He didn't apologize for the cartoon itself, but for the timing of its publication that made it look like an insult to veterans.
The timing of the release of the the cartoon say more about the editors and the news media, than it says anything about Davis.
In fairness, maybe it never occurred to them. I saw the cartoon and didn't make any immediate and obvious connection to Veterans Day.
That's right, the editor thought that the cartoon was published on the wrong day but the cartoon still ran and was not deleted. Unnlike some countries which are state run and the cartoon never would have been able to be published and if it was the editor might have been jailed.
Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! I don't necessarily see a tie in to veterans. . . if veterans see a tie in, maybe sub-consciously, the intelligent ones at least, realize their mistake, that they've been had by the military-industrial-corporate-complex? I mean, after all, that would be the only reason to get upset here, wouldn't it?
Meh, it's just because they can't point at Jim Davis and say (without political backlash) "Jim's a Commie Pinko".
