So turns out jim davis did a Garfield strip with a early version of garfield and odie was called "spot" two years before the main strip in a local paper! That means Garfield is two years older then history said he is!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPidZP_3X8
Lost Garfield Strips Found! Garfield is two years olfer then we thought!
-
- AV Forum Member
- Posts: 2679
- Joined: October 18th, 2007
-
- AV Forum Member
- Posts: 10081
- Joined: September 1st, 2006
Re: Lost Garfield Strips Found! Garfield is two years olfer then we thought!
Pretty fascinating. That original Garfield design though, eww! 
-
- AV Founder
- Posts: 25714
- Joined: October 22nd, 2004
- Location: London, UK
Re: Lost Garfield Strips Found! Garfield is two years olfer then we thought!
Gonna sound odd, but I have *definitely* seen that early design before, so these can’t have been *too* "lost"...? 
-
- AV Founder
- Posts: 7389
- Joined: October 23rd, 2004
- Location: SaskaTOON, Canada
Re: Lost Garfield Strips Found! Garfield is two years olfer then we thought!
Well, it's not so far removed from the earliest Garfield strips.
https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/06/19/
https://www.gocomics.com/garfield/1978/06/19/
-
- AV Founder
- Posts: 25714
- Joined: October 22nd, 2004
- Location: London, UK
Re: Lost Garfield Strips Found! Garfield is two years olfer then we thought!
Ah, yeah. There ya go.
-
- AV Forum Member
- Posts: 10081
- Joined: September 1st, 2006
Re: Lost Garfield Strips Found! Garfield is two years olfer then we thought!
Here's a side by side comparison to help illustrate the point:
Garfield's chunkiness carried over but he definitely got cuter!
- GarfieldComparison.jpg (149.25 KiB) Viewed 21935 times
Garfield's chunkiness carried over but he definitely got cuter!