Welcome to the 940th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the second legend of an all-comic strip edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed, discover the rare Garfield comic strip that appeared in just a single city, celebrating how the strip was saved from sure oblivion.
A truism in life is that everything looks straightforward AFTER it happens. In retrospect, you can see all the steps that took place on the road towards something being a success, and it looks almost preordained. Don’t believe it. It is almost never that way. Heck, even when it is KIND of like that, with some legit “overnight” successes, there are typically STILL stories of other ways that the people behind a successful piece of pop culture struggled before getting to create their successful comic/movie/TV show/what-have-you.
When Garfield first launched into national syndication (it originally was a separate strip that centered on Jon, before Davis came up with the idea to center the strip on Jon’s cat, instead) in June 1978, it was a lot different from the strip it soon evolved into, as you can see in the first four strips of the series…
Welcome to the 940th installment of Comic Book Legends Revealed, a column where we examine three comic book myths, rumors and legends and confirm or debunk them. In the second legend of an all-comic strip edition of Comic Book Legends Revealed, discover the rare Garfield comic strip that appeared in just a single city, celebrating how the strip was saved from sure oblivion.
A truism in life is that everything looks straightforward AFTER it happens. In retrospect, you can see all the steps that took place on the road towards something being a success, and it looks almost preordained. Don’t believe it. It is almost never that way. Heck, even when it is KIND of like that, with some legit “overnight” successes, there are typically STILL stories of other ways that the people behind a successful piece of pop culture struggled before getting to create their successful comic/movie/TV show/what-have-you.
When Garfield first launched into national syndication (it originally was a separate strip that centered on Jon, before Davis came up with the idea to center the strip on Jon’s cat, instead) in June 1978, it was a lot different from the strip it soon evolved into, as you can see in the first four strips of the series…
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