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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Rip Tommy’s face

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Rip Tommy’s face
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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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don't be weird, arnold
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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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don't be weird, arnold
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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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"The Tingler" is a horror movie about parasites living inside people that grow bigger and bigger whenever people are afraid and can only be subdued by screaming really loud, hence Tommy's line in the last panel.

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Madeline (?) » Sun Sep 15, 2019 1:25 am



bless you and your schlocky, terrible film, William Castle

You can also watch it in its entirety on YouTube


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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Oct 05, 2019 1:06 pm

Somebody on eBay was selling a set of "Arnold" Sunday strips clipped from newspapers.

I had most of it already, but these strips looked like it had better printing than the ones I already had, and there were also a bunch that I only had in black and white, so I can replace those with color copies.

So stay tuned until I get it in my mail. In the meantime...

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Oct 07, 2019 6:42 pm

Got a stack of Arnold Sundays today! Enough to replace poor quality copies I had on file.

Of course, 30+ year old newspapers don't age well physically, so I had to fool around with contrast settings on Photoshop to make them better, but I think they came out well. Here are some of the scans:

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I shared this one before, but in black and white. Here it is in color.

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Arnold ate the bird.

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Nope :-I

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:24 am

I mentioned that Kevin McCormick did some gag-writing for "Garfield". I asked Brett Koth, long-time Paws Inc employee, about that and this is what he wrote:
He sold Jim gags through Lew Little [syndicate editor at the time] on a freelance basis, and worked with us for many years. I think his GARFIELD gags are pretty easy to spot, as they're usually wild ala' ARNOLD, and sprinkled with mentions of badgers, warthogs, rabid things, etc. I do recall him writing some of the "family photo album" gags, where Jon would reminisce about his very bizarre relatives back on the farm. Whether we used it or not, his stuff was always so much fun to read - so off the wall, and he had such great energy in his writing. Funny too, now that I think of it, because he seemed like such a soft-spoken guy.
I do remember that there were a lot of family album gags during Kevin's tenure on "Garfield", and "Arnold" had a recurring thing where he talks about his weird relatives to Tommy...


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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:32 am

So based on the years Kevin was involved, and the note Brett sent me, I think these "Garfield" strips were written by Kevin:

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This one also has mentions of an unusual animal (Wolverine), another trademark of "Arnold"

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 26, 2020 12:35 am

Garfield never credited its ghosts, so I have to guess on who was involved in what, but these strips feel like you could run them as "Arnold" with some tweaks.

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I'm pretty confident this one was Kevin's, for example. Replace Jon with Arnold, and Garfield with Tommy, and you got a typical "Arnold" strip. Not only that, the middle panel is in silhouette, another thing "Arnold" did a LOT.

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:17 pm

I’d be tempted to credit Kevin McCormick with *that* Garfield strip (you know the one), but I don’t think the timeframe is at all right.

It did make me go “GACK” though :-I

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:38 pm

Madeline wrote:
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I’d be tempted to credit Kevin McCormick with *that* Garfield strip (you know the one), but I don’t think the timeframe is at all right.

It did make me go “GACK” though :-I
if you're talking about this strip, it ran in 1990, which would be when Kevin was working on "Garfield".

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...holy shit, did HE write this gag???? :starity:

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Post by Madeline (?) » Fri Jun 26, 2020 11:39 pm

Did... did we just accidentally solve a mystery? :starity: Because, yes, that is the strip I was talking about.

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

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AIEEEE

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May the giant bird carry us away

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Post by Mr. Big (?) » Mon Jul 13, 2020 3:01 am

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Sorry for the poor quality. Tried to improve the image on Photoshop, but this is the best I can do.

Anyway, here's a delightfully disgusting strip :-I

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Post by Madeline (?) » Mon Jul 13, 2020 4:08 am

A man’s rite of passage: odor eaters

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Re: My sweet petunia is saying "Gack" ("Arnold" thread)

Post by Mr. Big (?) » Sat Mar 06, 2021 8:38 pm

Mr. Big wrote:
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if you're talking about this strip, it ran in 1990, which would be when Kevin was working on "Garfield".

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...holy shit, did HE write this gag???? :starity:
Update, I came across this strip

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I stand by my theory that the Arnold guy did that Garfield strip.

On that note, I recently bought a stack of "Arnold" Sunday strips off of eBay. Many are replacements of black and white copies I had, but I also got strips I never had before.

Will hopefully share more in the coming days! Stay tuned

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