Galactus Gags

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"Ryan explained to me, he wanted it to be done in our style. He likened and wrote Galactus as Garfield and Norin Radd as Jon. That determined what they were going to look like. When you look at the Silver Surfer, he’s 75 percent of the way there anyway with Jon, all we had to do is give him the big eyes. That was a natural. John kind of hangs around Garfield anyway, he’s the straight man to Garfield’s gags and has to get him food. He’s like Garfield’s herald. Galactus was tougher. We were throwing stuff back and forth, and the initial sketches just weren’t working for Galactus. I said okay, we gotta make him fat. The guy eats planets, for god’s sake! Once we do that, it’s a little less Galactus but certainly a lot more Garfield. It looked more natural. Obviously, Galactus has put on a few mega-tons for this strip." -- Jim Davis

This is from Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #26.



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Comments

[riddler13]

This is very Jim Davis indeed. For better or worse

[silicondream]

That...yeah. If someone asked you, "so why would anybody draw these Garfield comics?", you could show them this and they'd go "....ohhhhhh, I see. I guess he just had to do it." And then you would nod soberly at each other.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

I got a kick out of this.