3rd September 2019, 7:25 PM
I'm guessing they didn't, but that Jim Davis doesn't do anything that would threaten the Garfield brand, like sue fans making parodies.
He's specially crafted Garfield to be a comic that reaches "everybody", and to that end, it's a comic that can never "say" anything. Heck he hasn't actually written it in years. He's got a "bible" of sorts of do's and don'ts, and his staff just go by that when writing new comics. Somehow though, I think there's some deep dark part of him that enjoys these twisted interpretations. That nightmare comic where Garfield's been abandoned to start to death, that came from somewhere, and that was back when he was still writing it.
He's specially crafted Garfield to be a comic that reaches "everybody", and to that end, it's a comic that can never "say" anything. Heck he hasn't actually written it in years. He's got a "bible" of sorts of do's and don'ts, and his staff just go by that when writing new comics. Somehow though, I think there's some deep dark part of him that enjoys these twisted interpretations. That nightmare comic where Garfield's been abandoned to start to death, that came from somewhere, and that was back when he was still writing it.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)