Garfield Grundfreid
Tom Devlin, of Montreal-based publishing house Drawn & Quarterly, has been having Garfield Fridays for the past two weeks over at the D&Q blog, where he posts great renditions of the cat by hip artists. This weeek’s is by Aaron Shive and the first one (pictured above) is by Seth Scriver, who 1) is very inspiring, 2) just got published in the second issue of new Canadian contemporary art quarterly Hunter and Cook and 3) will soon be getting a Petit Livre published by the very same D&Q. Phew!
But back to this Garfield business, besides reminding me of how much I loathe the original comics, these drawings made me realize how much I’m paradoxically really into Garfield subversion. So let me share with y’alls a few Garfield comics enhanced by complete strangers (thanks Internet), plus a shot of the installation that was exhibited at the Giant Robot NYC store last November. Can you spot the snazzier-looking Garfield in that last image?
