• A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    24 hours ago

    Would we say today that Jim Davis, the author of Garfield, was an incel ?
    i know that later in the cartoon he Jon, his main character, finally match with a compatible woman …

    • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
      6·
      23 hours ago

      I think Jon was being presented as a lovable but clueless dork. Though his harassment (and forced kissing) of the vet has aged poorly.

      • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 hours ago

        Thanks for taking the time to answer my question. I do agree that, something like 40 years ago, it was read like you explained.

        Also, reading again my question, i realize that i was confusing the author for the character (so I was confusing Jim Davis for Jon …). … if it was autobiographic, i don’t know to what extent it would have been.

        • Sergio@slrpnk.netEnglish
          2·
          5 hours ago

          if it was autobiographic, i don’t know to what extent it would have been.

          according to wikipedia:

          The character of Jon Arbuckle was envisioned by Jim Davis as an author surrogate

          https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Arbuckle

          so it’s not autobiographical, but it’s a fictional version. Interestingly, the same article says:

          Davis eventually decided to replace Jon with Garfield as the main character, with the renamed Garfield strip achieving national syndication in 1978.[17] The Jon comics were published without copyright notices, making them and the prototypical Jon and Garfield characters public domain under pre-1977 copyright law.

          • A_A@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            4 hours ago

            Thanks for these searches. Based on this, i feel right to say that both the author and the character could be today somewhat described as incels … still i enjoy reading those cartoons.