842: Wallpaper
| Wallpaper |
 Made by: Andrew Woods |
Explanation[edit | edit source]
This strip is a mild jab at an odd trend in Garfield: the fact that the background color (which is usually assumed to be the Arbuckle household's wallpaper) often changes radically from panel to panel. The author chalks it up to an attempt to make the comic's (infamously staid) visuals more lively, pointing to a particularly odd example where the wallpaper has a pattern (unlike most other strips, where it's one solid color).
The author writes:[edit | edit source]
The need for visual interest without fuss is met with an unnerving device. 2000-07-30 is a particularly psychedelic example.
Original strips: 2000-03-25, 2000-07-30.
Transcript[edit | edit source]
{Garfield sits by himself in silence. The wallpaper changes colour, from aquamarine to lavender rose, and back again.}
Garfield: Something weird about the wallpaper in here.
Trivia[edit | edit source]
The credit for 2000-07-30 in the current strip crediting system is presumably unintentional; that strip was not credited in the remnants of the old strip crediting system. It is presumed that the transition between crediting systems looked through the entire author's notes and not just what corresponded to the old crediting system, saw a link to the strip in the author's notes proper, and interpreted it as a strip to credit.
