Get This Look: The Sunday Comics
by Rebecca Jane Stokes
1. Garfield
This lasagna-loving arbiter of sloth, was created by cartoonist Jim Davis in the late 1970s after his previous comic about a bunch of insects was deemed to be “unrelatable.” The personality of Garfield himself was based on Davis’s grandfather, a man he described as “large and cantankerous.” His stance on Mondays remains unconfirmed.
When I was a kid, I owned both a Garfield t-shirt and hat. There’s a photo of me reading a Garfield comic while wearing both articles of clothing. I regret nothing. Garfield continues to run in the funnies today, with some changes to its original stories. A character named Lyman, for example, is the true and original owner of Jon’s drooling fool of a dog Odie. Lyman had a creepy-ass moustache. Also, Garfield is a lot less jowly now. Additionally, he no longer seems to send Nermal abroad as much as he used to. One more thing you need to know: before Google acquired it, Garfield owned the Gmail domain. Presumably, this was where you received your Garfield-mail.
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2. Dagwood
Once upon a time, Dagwood was compelling. Today he is mainly known for being less-good-looking than his wife and for his love of giant sandwiches, but in the 1930s, when Chic Young first conjured him up, Dagwood was actually the heir to the Bumstead locomotive fortune. And Blondie was a “flapper” Dagwood’s family didn’t approve of! I would be so much more interested in this storyline, personally. Though he proclaims himself to be a proud family man, Dagwood’s boss is a pill and his pretty flapper wife has become a predictable nag, which is meant to explain Dag’s deep and abiding love of “naps.” It’s time for a “very special” Dagwood to address his easily diagnosed clinical depression.
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3. Dennis the Menace
Dennis the Menace (created by Hank Ketchum) and I have one thing in common: a cowlick that — like Miley Cyrus before us — cannot be tamed. Dennis has been around and harassing Mr. Wilson since the 1950s. I used to get so uncomfortable at how much Mr. Wilson hated Dennis that it gave me heartburn and I would hide the comics from myself. Clearly, I am alone in this distress, as the perpetually five-year-old Dennis has more than wormed his trouble-lovin’ way into America’s heart.
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