Gardfield du Jour, This Guy's an Idiot

You loyal, adoring fans  who don't fucking exist  have long known that I love Garfield. In terms of the comics, it is of course in the pantheon...certainly second only to the untouchable Peanuts. So of course I get my nose bent outta shape over an article saying that Garfield was never funny, but merely a tool for Jim Davis to market the hell out of:

The strip serves to keep Garfield in the public eye as a creative character, but the public eye isn't really on print newspapers that much any more, and the daily newspaper comics section is probably one of the most moribund elements of popular culture in existence today. Good for Davis in maximizing the potential of his creation, but as a humor, it has dubious roots. Peanuts and The Family Circle were actually funny, once upon a time. Garfield, not so much.

Notwithstanding the fact that anyone who claims Family Circus was ever funny at any time is a fucking idiot, the fact is that in the first decade or so Garfield was not only funny,  but the strip WAS laugh-out-loud funny. Also, he once helped me tell a teacher eff you, so there's that.