• A_A@lemmy.world
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    8 days 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.

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      8 days 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.

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        8 days 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.