Comment by eru

17 hours ago

Garfield was conceived from the get go as a cash grab devoid of artistic merit.

(And that's fine by me, nobody is forcing anyone to consume Garfield.)

3 comments

eru

Interesting, you know more about it than I do, I suppose. Do you know of any source for Jim discussing how/why he started Garfield?

eru 15 hours ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garfield#History is probably a good start.
Wikipedia is a bit coy and trying to be neutral. But even just from there you can see that the author decided to make strips about cats, because Snoopy had already cornered the dog market.