246: Head to Tail
| Head to Tail |
 Made by: Nyperold |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
As the author explained, he took the first strip, and looked for a middle panel that started with the same word ("Garfield"), and, upon finding one, looked for a final panel that started with the same word that the middle panel ended with ("try"). The result has no particular narrative to it, but it is interesting.
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
The idea, if it isn't obvious, was to start with the first panel of a Garfield strip, in this case, the first one, then find a second panel that starts with the last word. Not too difficult, in this case; as it happened, the word was "Garfield", and Jon's always yelling his name for one reason or another. But then came finding a third panel that begins with the last word of the second panel. It would have felt like cheating to use a panel that starting with "trying", so I pressed on. As you can see by the dates, this one took a little longer, even with the search...
Original strips: 1978-06-19, 1978-06-21, and 1988-11-18.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
Jon: Hi, there... I'm Jon Arbuckle. I'm a cartoonist, and this is my cat, Garfield.
Jon: Garfield! You didn't even try!
Garfield: Try loosening your sweatband.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- The first two panels are from the same month of the same year; by contrast, the last panel is from more than a decade later.
