1859: Vegan Garfield

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Vegan Garfield
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Made by: Andrew Kepple


Explanation[edit | edit source]

This strip mashes together elements from two original Garfield strips, to portray a storyline in which Jon puts Garfield on a vegan diet and brags about it on his blog. The author states that the practice would gain attention and notoriety on Tumblr in particular, and adds a warning against putting obligate carnivores such as house cats onto vegan diets.

One particular Tumblr blog eventually took notice of either this strip or the original 1983-08-17 Garfield strip and called Jon out on his practices; that blog spliced into this strip eventually formed 3826: Tumblr mad.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Promoting feeding cats a vegan diet is an effective way to gain attention and notoriety on Tumblr.

Note: The submitter of this SRoMG strip does not support the (eventually) lethal practice of enforcing a vegan diet on obligate carnivores. Jon really is a cruel, cruel man.

Original strips: 1983-08-17, 2010-04-22.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Jon: {tossing a banana onto the bench in front of Garfield} Happy diet, Garfield. Here's a banana for breakfast.
{Jon at the computer, typing}
Text: 'Sup Tumblr, my cat is now 100% vegan! U mad?
Jon: {facing Garfield} My blog is getting edgier!