You guys realize there's actually TWO pipe strips, with the second one happening right after the original, as if these two comics are connected, and is actually one story.
Back in 2003, a group of cartoonists I was with visited Davis' studio. It was much larger than I had imagined, with cubicles for an entire army of people drawing or painting Garfield for strips and different products. The studio had its own fitness area, and I had the privilege of sitting with Davis during lunch in the cafeteria there. He talked mostly about how happy he was with the studio's all natural septic system. That might sound like a strange thing for him to talk about, but he was really delighted by the studio's ability to filter out all of the human waste and having clean water on the other side of a very green process.
When I was 18, 18 years old, I saw for the first time in my life, I saw a vision of clarity. I saw a comic strip, a three panel comic strip that, though simple as it seemed, changed me, changed my being, changed who I am, made me who I am, enlightened me. The strip, Garfield, the comic strip was new, no more then maybe a month and a half since inception, since... since coming into existence, and there it was before me in print, I saw it, a comic strip. What was it called? Garfield. The story here is of a man, a plain man. He is Jon, but he is more than that. I will get to this later, but first, let us just say he is Jon, a plain man, and then there is a cat, Garfield. This is the nature of the world here. When I see the world, the...the politics, the future, the... satellites in space, and the people who put them there, you could look at everything as a man and a cat. Two beings, in harmony, and at war. So this strip I saw about this man, Jon, and the cat, Garfield, you see.... yes, hmm, it is about everything, this little comic is, oh... lo and behold not so little anymore. So yes, when I was 18, I saw this comic and it hit me all at once, its power, I clipped it and every day I looked at it and I said, okay, let me look at this here, what is this doing to me? Why is this so powerful? Jon Arbuckle, he sits here, legs crossed, comfortable in his home and he reads his newspaper. The news of the world perhaps. Then he extends his fingers, lightly, delicately, he taps his fingers on an end table and he feels for something. What is it? It is something he needs, but it is not there. Then he looks up, slightly cockeyed and he thinks... his newspaper in his lap now, and he thinks this: "Now where could my pipe be?" This... I always come to this, because I was a young man, I'm older now, and I still don't have the secrets, the answers, so this question still rings true, Jon looks up and he thinks: "Now where could my pipe be?", and then it happens, you see it, you see... it's almost like divine intervention, suddenly, it is there, and it overpowers you, a cat is smoking a pipe. It is the mans pipe, it's Jon's pipe, but the cat, this cat, Garfield, is smoking the pipe, and from afar, and from someplace near, but not clear... near but not clear, the man calls out, Jon calls out, he is shocked. "Garfield!" he shouts. Garfield, the cats name. But let's take a step back. Let us examine this from all sides, all perspectives, and when I first came across this comic strip, I was at my fathers house. The newspaper had arrived, and I picked it up for him, and brought it inside. I organized his sections for him and then, yes, the comic strip section fell out from somewhere in the middle, landed on the kitchen floor. I picked up the picture pages and saw up somewhere near the top of this strip, just like Jon, I too was wearing an aquamarine shirt, so I thought, "Hah! Interesting, I'll have to see this later." I snipped out the little comic and held onto it, and 5 days later, I re-examined, and it gripped me, I needed to find out more about this. The information I had was minimal, but enough. An orange cat named Garfield. Okay, that seemed to be the linchpin of this whole operation. Yes, another clue, a signature on the bottom right corner, a mans name, Jim Davis. Yes, I'm onto it for sure, so. 1. Garfield, orange cat, and 2. Jim Davis, the creator of this cat, and that curiously plain man. I did not know at the time that his name was Jon. The strip, you see, had no mention of this mans name, and, I've never seen it before. But I had these clues. Jim Davis, Garfield. And then I saw more, I spotted the tiny copyright at the upper left corner, copyright 1978, to... what is this? Copyright belongs to a "PAWS Incorporated"? I used the local library and mail services to track down the information I was looking for. Jim Davis, a cartoonist, who created a comic strip about a cat, Garfield, and a man, Jon Arbuckle. Well from that point on I made sure I read the Garfield comic strips, but as I read each one, as each day passed, the strips seemed to resonate with me less and less. I sent letters to PAWS Incorporated, long letters, pages upon pages, asking if Mr. Jim Davis could somehow publish just the one comic, over and over again, it would be meditative, I wrote, the strength of that, could you imagine? But, no response. The strips lost their power, and eventually I stopped reading, but... I did not want my perceptions deluded so I vowed to read the pipe strip over and over again. That is what I called it, "The Pipe Strip", The Pipe Strip. Everything about it is perfect, I can only describe it as a miracle creation, something came together, the elements aligned. It is like the comets, the cosmic orchestra that is up there over your head. The immense, enormous void is working all for one thing, to tell you one thing. Gas, and rock and purity and... Nothing! I will say this, when I see the pipe strip, and I mean every single time I look at the lines, the colors, the shapes, that make up the three panel comic, I see perfection. Do I find perfection in many things? Some things I would say, some things are perfect. And this is one of them. I can look at the little tuft of hair on Jon Arbuckle's head, it is the perfect shade, the purple pipe in Garfield's mouth, how could a mere mortal even make this? I have a theory about Jim Davis, after copious research, and yes of course now we have the internet, and all this information is now readily available but... Jim Davis, he used his life experiences to influence his comic. Like I mentioned before, none of them seemed to have the weight of The Pipe Strip, but you have to wonder about the man who is able to even, just once, create the perfect form, a literally flawless execution of art, brilliance! Just as an award, I think there is a spiritual element at work. I've seen my share of bad times, and when you have something, well, it's just, emotions and neurons in your brain, but something tells you it's the truth, truth's radiant light. Garfield the cat? Neurons in my brain, it's, it's harmony you see, Jon and Garfield, it's truly harmony, like a continuous looping everlasting harmony. The lavender chair, the brown end table, the salmon colored wall, the forest green carpet, and Garfield is hunched, perched perhaps, with the pipe stuck firmly between his jowls, his tail curls around. It's more then shapes too because... I... Okay, stay with me, I've done this experiment several times. You take the strip, you trace only the basic elements. You can do anything, you can simplify the shapes down to just blobs, just outlines, but it still makes sense. You can replace the blobs with magazine cutouts of other things, replace Jon Arbuckle with a car parked in a driveway sideways, cut that out of a magazine, stick it in, replace it there in the second panel with a, a food processor, okay. And then we put a picture of the planet in the third panel over Garfield. It still works. These are universal proportions, I don't know how best to explain why it works, I have studied The Pipe Strip, and analyzed Jon and Garfield's proportions against several universal mathematical constants: e, pi, the Golden Ratio, the Feigenbaum constants and so on, and it's surprising, scary, how things align. You can take just tiny pieces of the pipe strip for instance, take Jon's elbow from the second panel, and take that and project it over Jon's entire shape in the second panel, and you'll see a near perfect Fibonacci sequence emerge. It's eerie to me, and it makes you wonder if you were in the presence of a deity, if there is some larger hand at work. There is no doubt in my mind that Jim Davis is a smart man. Jim Davis is capable of anything, to me, he is remarkable, but this is so far beyond that. I think we might see that this work of art is revered and respected in years to come. Jim Davis is possibly a new master
it takes 15 seconds or less for us to read the strips. the team took 15 hours or more to produce it. we should be grateful for their efforts... and the joy they bring to us.
I have a story: In my first year on New York (2009) I was on sixth grade. In the first semester I had a very nice cartoon teacher she was on her twenties at the time, I was 12. I had her every Fridays. I have been into drawing all of my life until then and now. At that time I was really into drawing ships and on her class I would always draw a ship. She would of course give us cartoon assignments. I had so much fun on her class. I waited until every Friday to have her class. She was the nicest teacher and I remember her telling me I was one of her favorite students. Every time I had her class I would ask her for paper. She had a supply of “big paper” meaning paper that measured over the standard 8.5 x 11 (if I’m correct). I would use that paper to draw my favorite ships at home. One day though (Friday) I went to her class and noticed that she was really quiet and sad, which was unusual because she was always happy and positive. After the class ended she told me that that day was her last day in the school and that I would never see her again. I didn’t understand the seriousness of what she told me, honestly I just asked her for paper. She repeated that that would be the last time I would see her in my Life but again I didn’t understand. She gave me paper and left. I never saw her again after that. How does this ties back into Garfield you ask? Well she is the one person that thought me that drawings can be funny, I didn’t think that before I met her, all my drawings were of lifeless ships. But she showed me that I could make people laugh with my drawings and she did that by showing me a Garfield comic strip. I read the strip and I laughed, it was so funny, I still remember it. I feel so bad, she was genuinely upset because I apparently didn’t care that she was leaving but the truth is that I did and I still do. I still think about it every now and then. I’m 21 now and I still hold the happy memories of her class. 2009 was a difficult time because in that year I migrated to United States and left my family behind. Her class was one of the things that made me happy during those times. I wish I could see her again and say that I’m sorry. I appreciate Garfield because of this. Now I create characters as a hobby and a write stories. I’m hoping to start working on my comic soon. I will always remember my cartoon teacher from 6th grade. Thanks for reading 😄😄.
this is a beautiful video. it's just long enough to get a taste of the work, and the dedication each artist puts into it. wonderful production! garfield is a timeless strip, and thank you all for giving joy again and again!
Love Garfield I just recently bought the the Garfield fat cat book vol 1 Garfield looked way different back then but his attitude and humor all still the same awesome stuff it is I hope I can get Jim Davis to autograph the book for me one day
I'm a cartoonist myself and I only just started using the blue pencil. I really wish I'd learned how useful it is and the work it can save you earlier.
People really under think how much time and effort this really takes. Its not just like drawing a picture at home it takes a lot more work. They also get one of these out every day and everyone is at such a high quality. RESPECT!!!
I would like to see how they deal with errant ink marks or splatters and a magnified view of what kind of brush or pen the inker uses. Also where do you get that cotton glove? Or do you just cut the fingers off any ole glove? Also, I would love to see Jim's personal sketchbook with his own Garfield drawings & ideas! Garfield and Snoopy are my two greatest influences in the funnies!
Any errant ink marks and things are likely just edited out during the digital coloring stage. Just click that shape and delete it. This is just a guess but the inker looks like he is using a Windsor & Newton #7 Kolinsky Sable brush that he has added a tape grip to or something. Not sure on the pen but a similar inking pen is the Copic Multiliner.
Que hermoso es ver esto, que maravilla tener un trabajo tan espectacular como el de este hombre y su equipo. Son todos unos artistas! Nada en la actualidad se compara a esta belleza!
it's tragic what has happened to comic strips. losing space in newspapers and shrinking in size or getting dropped. and who reads newspapers anymore? seeing strips and single panel gags on a screen just isn't the same.
Wait, what? It takes 4 guys to do Garfield? Good lord, Davis' head would explode if he were Gould or Segar, who generally only had one person on staff, and who did much more complicated strips.
Okay, am I the only one who thinks this is kind of adorable? Like, it's SUPER cheesy, but, y'know, in a good way! Like they're just a bunch of lil' old men having fun! Can't be the only one. =/
I didn't know their were comics called US Acres. I knew the characters from Garfield and friends. But I didn't know there was a comic of them. I guess they were not as successful as Garfield and.
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Garfield is very good. Especially The Pipe Strip. I can't even express how deep and wonderful The Pipe Strip is.
I love the part where he slowly realizes that his pipe is missing.
Now where could my pipe be?
Hahahahaha
The pipe strip is such a revolutionary and most modern thing I’ve seen in my life
You guys realize there's actually TWO pipe strips, with the second one happening right after the original, as if these two comics are connected, and is actually one story.
N O W W H E R E C O U L D M Y *P I P E B E ?*
*G A R F I E L D !*
*cues music by Phillip Glass*
Where pipe?
now where could my pipe be?
GAAAARFIEEEEELD
Majora gArFeiF
Back in 2003, a group of cartoonists I was with visited Davis' studio. It was much larger than I had imagined, with cubicles for an entire army of people drawing or painting Garfield for strips and different products. The studio had its own fitness area, and I had the privilege of sitting with Davis during lunch in the cafeteria there. He talked mostly about how happy he was with the studio's all natural septic system. That might sound like a strange thing for him to talk about, but he was really delighted by the studio's ability to filter out all of the human waste and having clean water on the other side of a very green process.
He's shifted into a management mindset.
No Way!
Idk why I laughed at this it’s so random 😂
When I was 18, 18 years old, I saw for the first time in my life, I saw a vision of clarity. I saw a comic strip, a three panel comic strip that, though simple as it seemed, changed me, changed my being, changed who I am, made me who I am, enlightened me. The strip, Garfield, the comic strip was new, no more then maybe a month and a half since inception, since... since coming into existence, and there it was before me in print, I saw it, a comic strip. What was it called? Garfield. The story here is of a man, a plain man. He is Jon, but he is more than that. I will get to this later, but first, let us just say he is Jon, a plain man, and then there is a cat, Garfield. This is the nature of the world here. When I see the world, the...the politics, the future, the... satellites in space, and the people who put them there, you could look at everything as a man and a cat. Two beings, in harmony, and at war. So this strip I saw about this man, Jon, and the cat, Garfield, you see.... yes, hmm, it is about everything, this little comic is, oh... lo and behold not so little anymore. So yes, when I was 18, I saw this comic and it hit me all at once, its power, I clipped it and every day I looked at it and I said, okay, let me look at this here, what is this doing to me? Why is this so powerful? Jon Arbuckle, he sits here, legs crossed, comfortable in his home and he reads his newspaper. The news of the world perhaps. Then he extends his fingers, lightly, delicately, he taps his fingers on an end table and he feels for something. What is it? It is something he needs, but it is not there. Then he looks up, slightly cockeyed and he thinks... his newspaper in his lap now, and he thinks this: "Now where could my pipe be?" This... I always come to this, because I was a young man, I'm older now, and I still don't have the secrets, the answers, so this question still rings true, Jon looks up and he thinks: "Now where could my pipe be?", and then it happens, you see it, you see... it's almost like divine intervention, suddenly, it is there, and it overpowers you, a cat is smoking a pipe. It is the mans pipe, it's Jon's pipe, but the cat, this cat, Garfield, is smoking the pipe, and from afar, and from someplace near, but not clear... near but not clear, the man calls out, Jon calls out, he is shocked. "Garfield!" he shouts. Garfield, the cats name. But let's take a step back. Let us examine this from all sides, all perspectives, and when I first came across this comic strip, I was at my fathers house. The newspaper had arrived, and I picked it up for him, and brought it inside. I organized his sections for him and then, yes, the comic strip section fell out from somewhere in the middle, landed on the kitchen floor. I picked up the picture pages and saw up somewhere near the top of this strip, just like Jon, I too was wearing an aquamarine shirt, so I thought, "Hah! Interesting, I'll have to see this later." I snipped out the little comic and held onto it, and 5 days later, I re-examined, and it gripped me, I needed to find out more about this. The information I had was minimal, but enough. An orange cat named Garfield. Okay, that seemed to be the linchpin of this whole operation. Yes, another clue, a signature on the bottom right corner, a mans name, Jim Davis. Yes, I'm onto it for sure, so. 1. Garfield, orange cat, and 2. Jim Davis, the creator of this cat, and that curiously plain man. I did not know at the time that his name was Jon. The strip, you see, had no mention of this mans name, and, I've never seen it before. But I had these clues. Jim Davis, Garfield. And then I saw more, I spotted the tiny copyright at the upper left corner, copyright 1978, to... what is this? Copyright belongs to a "PAWS Incorporated"? I used the local library and mail services to track down the information I was looking for. Jim Davis, a cartoonist, who created a comic strip about a cat, Garfield, and a man, Jon Arbuckle. Well from that point on I made sure I read the Garfield comic strips, but as I read each one, as each day passed, the strips seemed to resonate with me less and less. I sent letters to PAWS Incorporated, long letters, pages upon pages, asking if Mr. Jim Davis could somehow publish just the one comic, over and over again, it would be meditative, I wrote, the strength of that, could you imagine? But, no response. The strips lost their power, and eventually I stopped reading, but... I did not want my perceptions deluded so I vowed to read the pipe strip over and over again. That is what I called it, "The Pipe Strip", The Pipe Strip. Everything about it is perfect, I can only describe it as a miracle creation, something came together, the elements aligned. It is like the comets, the cosmic orchestra that is up there over your head. The immense, enormous void is working all for one thing, to tell you one thing. Gas, and rock and purity and... Nothing! I will say this, when I see the pipe strip, and I mean every single time I look at the lines, the colors, the shapes, that make up the three panel comic, I see perfection. Do I find perfection in many things? Some things I would say, some things are perfect. And this is one of them. I can look at the little tuft of hair on Jon Arbuckle's head, it is the perfect shade, the purple pipe in Garfield's mouth, how could a mere mortal even make this? I have a theory about Jim Davis, after copious research, and yes of course now we have the internet, and all this information is now readily available but... Jim Davis, he used his life experiences to influence his comic. Like I mentioned before, none of them seemed to have the weight of The Pipe Strip, but you have to wonder about the man who is able to even, just once, create the perfect form, a literally flawless execution of art, brilliance! Just as an award, I think there is a spiritual element at work. I've seen my share of bad times, and when you have something, well, it's just, emotions and neurons in your brain, but something tells you it's the truth, truth's radiant light. Garfield the cat? Neurons in my brain, it's, it's harmony you see, Jon and Garfield, it's truly harmony, like a continuous looping everlasting harmony. The lavender chair, the brown end table, the salmon colored wall, the forest green carpet, and Garfield is hunched, perched perhaps, with the pipe stuck firmly between his jowls, his tail curls around. It's more then shapes too because... I... Okay, stay with me, I've done this experiment several times. You take the strip, you trace only the basic elements. You can do anything, you can simplify the shapes down to just blobs, just outlines, but it still makes sense. You can replace the blobs with magazine cutouts of other things, replace Jon Arbuckle with a car parked in a driveway sideways, cut that out of a magazine, stick it in, replace it there in the second panel with a, a food processor, okay. And then we put a picture of the planet in the third panel over Garfield. It still works. These are universal proportions, I don't know how best to explain why it works, I have studied The Pipe Strip, and analyzed Jon and Garfield's proportions against several universal mathematical constants: e, pi, the Golden Ratio, the Feigenbaum constants and so on, and it's surprising, scary, how things align. You can take just tiny pieces of the pipe strip for instance, take Jon's elbow from the second panel, and take that and project it over Jon's entire shape in the second panel, and you'll see a near perfect Fibonacci sequence emerge. It's eerie to me, and it makes you wonder if you were in the presence of a deity, if there is some larger hand at work. There is no doubt in my mind that Jim Davis is a smart man. Jim Davis is capable of anything, to me, he is remarkable, but this is so far beyond that. I think we might see that this work of art is revered and respected in years to come. Jim Davis is possibly a new master
I just read a novel
@@LeviticusCorwall1899 lord of the pipe strip
...dude
You've just typed that entire Lasgna Cat video's script, and I applaud you
Tldr
I love how most of these dudes are left handed!!!
i never even considered that I could do art as a lefty
I'm a left handed cartoonist
I never noticed that.
@@ceratix1576 me to!
@@ceratix1576 Eyyyy lefty siblings!
This taught me how to write and draw my own comics and characters. Thank you Jim Davis and Garfield.✏✒📒✍️
it takes 15 seconds or less for us to read the strips. the team took 15 hours or more to produce it. we should be grateful for their efforts... and the joy they bring to us.
and they are old school workflow!
but bring joy to millions of human beings
except for tim howard. He does jack shit!
absolutely right. the whole heart and mind are in a creator's work. our job is thus to appreciate their results, deeply
they could have spent fifteen hours producing something funny you know...
Of course- the strip Jim Davis is laughing at is one of his own...
He thought reading Garfield would be too in the nose.
+C McCann It's done for the camera to get the point across. He doesn't really laugh THAT in depth when he's actually reading them..
I have a story: In my first year on New York (2009) I was on sixth grade. In the first semester I had a very nice cartoon teacher she was on her twenties at the time, I was 12. I had her every Fridays. I have been into drawing all of my life until then and now. At that time I was really into drawing ships and on her class I would always draw a ship. She would of course give us cartoon assignments. I had so much fun on her class. I waited until every Friday to have her class. She was the nicest teacher and I remember her telling me I was one of her favorite students. Every time I had her class I would ask her for paper. She had a supply of “big paper” meaning paper that measured over the standard 8.5 x 11 (if I’m correct). I would use that paper to draw my favorite ships at home. One day though (Friday) I went to her class and noticed that she was really quiet and sad, which was unusual because she was always happy and positive. After the class ended she told me that that day was her last day in the school and that I would never see her again. I didn’t understand the seriousness of what she told me, honestly I just asked her for paper. She repeated that that would be the last time I would see her in my Life but again I didn’t understand. She gave me paper and left. I never saw her again after that. How does this ties back into Garfield you ask? Well she is the one person that thought me that drawings can be funny, I didn’t think that before I met her, all my drawings were of lifeless ships. But she showed me that I could make people laugh with my drawings and she did that by showing me a Garfield comic strip. I read the strip and I laughed, it was so funny, I still remember it. I feel so bad, she was genuinely upset because I apparently didn’t care that she was leaving but the truth is that I did and I still do. I still think about it every now and then. I’m 21 now and I still hold the happy memories of her class. 2009 was a difficult time because in that year I migrated to United States and left my family behind. Her class was one of the things that made me happy during those times. I wish I could see her again and say that I’m sorry. I appreciate Garfield because of this. Now I create characters as a hobby and a write stories. I’m hoping to start working on my comic soon. I will always remember my cartoon teacher from 6th grade. Thanks for reading 😄😄.
...sorry to ask but which back then people didn't get use to ask phone number at that time?
@@men_del12 dafaq?
didn't read much of that but i hope u get there and hope i can see your work someday
watching him write the letters was oddly satisfying
You are a prophet of beauty, Mr. Davis. Your works will never die, they'll keep making us laugh FOREVER (FOREVER).
I didn't know it's been a long time since there was a Garfield, super thank you guys for making Garfield, God bless you sir!🙏💖 from the Philippines🇵🇭
CHARLES SCHULZ DID THE WRITING & THE PENCILLING & THE INKING AND THE COLORING ALL BY HIMSELF. ONE MAN SHOW.
We need a 2024 update on how the comic is made. It’s fully digital I assume.
Yes Jim draws the strip digitally nowadays and has been doing so since 2010 or maybe earlier.
While I was watching this video
I put my hand on the table where I leave my pipe but it wasn't there and I asked myself,"Where could my pipe be?"
I read Garfield comics every day, they always make me chuckle & smile to read them 😂 Keep up the great work, Jim Davis!!
So much work for 3 panels, that will make you laugh for minutes...respect
The end is so Garfieldly~~~
*G A R F I E L D I S A C A T W H O S A Y S F U N N Y T H I N G S.*
Jim Davis is the greatest artist of all time.
Definitely.... Garfield was the only one who passed Snoopy
Wow! It takes way more work and people to make the comic than I thought. It’s all about teamwork. I wish I could make something like this.
I can't believe how many people it takes to do Garfield! Charles Schulz did Peanuts for 50 years by himself!
Jim Davis is not even in the same realm as Charles Schulz.
Peanuts doesn't even have a pipe strip
Jim Davis is more supportive to future cartoonists than shulz was...not being negative to either cartoonists
svin no such thing as aliens
svin my mistake I am sorry
5:19 Here is the actual entire process. The whole rest of the movie is lies.
this is an oddly sincere episode of Lasagna Cat
It takes 4 people and 1 week for a months worth of bombed jokes.
I would really prefer if you'd be quiet.
...but yes, you are correct.
Garfeild always makes me laugh.
Charles Schulz drew 17,897 comics by himself.
regardless of my opinion on the strip itself i always found this video really cool
I had a whole book about Garfield trivia, it was quite interesting
What a good hearted gentleman
Lasagnacat brought me here.
Jhon: There is nothing new in my life...
Realfield: ...
Jhon: Yes...
They do it the old school way. That's actually pretty cool.
crazy how much technology has changed in 7 years.
Not really:/
Uh what? How is this any different to today?
@@lol-de4lo They digitised the strip since this was made. It's all digital since 2010 or so, I believe.
Garfield: The Greatest cat ever.
until the day a cat cures cancer this will probably remain true
this is a beautiful video. it's just long enough to get a taste of the work, and the dedication each artist puts into it. wonderful production! garfield is a timeless strip, and thank you all for giving joy again and again!
Love Garfield I just recently bought the the Garfield fat cat book vol 1 Garfield looked way different back then but his attitude and humor all still the same awesome stuff it is I hope I can get Jim Davis to autograph the book for me one day
I now know the magic of the almighty
GARF
*THERE IS NO ESCAPE, JON*
is this how the pipe strip was made too?
the pipe strip was forged in the mines of moria
No, the pipestrip was sent from god and Jim simply transcribed it.
Yes
expect the Photoshop and scan-in process.
Some say Moses received the tables, but actually, he received the Pipe Strip
I don't know if anyone has mentioned it in the comments, but Eric Reaves, who is shown working on the strip, is currently the artist of "Hi & Lois."
I'm a cartoonist myself and I only just started using the blue pencil. I really wish I'd learned how useful it is and the work it can save you earlier.
At the time, he gave this Interview(On Garfield's a Tale of Two Kitties DVD) Davis had not actually written or drawn the strip himself in 7 years.
“Now WHERE could my pipe be?”
Lol!
His ink artist sounds like 80s Garfield kinda
Jim Davis is the greatest thinker of our times.
This is amazing talent at work wow
Thanks for both the cartoon and the clip :)
I love how the digital colorist is wearing the cotton glove while working on a tablet
As someone who works with a very similar tablet, it's important to wear one of those so that you can move your hand along it with less friction.
he seems like such a nice guy.....he didn't deserve all that....
Respect!..
Yes sir!
These people have the greatest job in zee world!
i love garfield
this video implies that Garfield is real and write his own jokes
People really under think how much time and effort this really takes. Its not just like drawing a picture at home it takes a lot more work. They also get one of these out every day and everyone is at such a high quality. RESPECT!!!
high quality? are you both blind and deaf?
Great video. Now let's take a nap... or maybe eat something...
Something like... lasagna?
Or maybe have a smoke...
Now where could my pipe be...
Praised be Jim Davis!
the comic of garfield looks like from 2018 "the Garfield show" 0:16
it appear to my recommended section,i assume because of lasagna cat.
What a fun bunch!
Garfield is a cat that does funny things
Like the pipe strip
The colourist reminds me of Rich Evans so much
It will be a sad day when Garfield is retired.
that makes so much sense now
lol - Jim doesn't hide a thing!
I love Garfield and I read comics a lot on newspapers and comic books of Garfield as well Garfield is some cool cat
Jim Davis was born in my home state!
This was really cute😂😂I loved it
I've watched this 3 fricking times
I would like to see how they deal with errant ink marks or splatters and a magnified view of what kind of brush or pen the inker uses. Also where do you get that cotton glove? Or do you just cut the fingers off any ole glove? Also, I would love to see Jim's personal sketchbook with his own Garfield drawings & ideas! Garfield and Snoopy are my two greatest influences in the funnies!
Any errant ink marks and things are likely just edited out during the digital coloring stage. Just click that shape and delete it. This is just a guess but the inker looks like he is using a Windsor & Newton #7 Kolinsky Sable brush that he has added a tape grip to or something. Not sure on the pen but a similar inking pen is the Copic Multiliner.
I think you can get gloves like that on Amazon
0:52 genuine laugh by the way
I knew it. Garfield is written by a bunch of Dads.
Remember having to watch this in class.
Que hermoso es ver esto, que maravilla tener un trabajo tan espectacular como el de este hombre y su equipo.
Son todos unos artistas! Nada en la actualidad se compara a esta belleza!
it's tragic what has happened to comic strips. losing space in newspapers and shrinking in size or getting dropped. and who reads newspapers anymore? seeing strips and single panel gags on a screen just isn't the same.
There are now 8 people working at paws Inc. today.
Jim Davis is a genius, he loved what he did and he proved to people you can succeed too.
Cool... i never knew this was so time consuming!
Coloring comics before the computer must have been challenging
Garfieldddd lol
I just like watching this over and over agian, so neat, haha
Wait, what? It takes 4 guys to do Garfield? Good lord, Davis' head would explode if he were Gould or Segar, who generally only had one person on staff, and who did much more complicated strips.
Well its faster and effecent if I had that kind of money I would hire assistants.
1:30 Well, this explains why 2000s Garfield looks so refined
Okay, am I the only one who thinks this is kind of adorable? Like, it's SUPER cheesy, but, y'know, in a good way! Like they're just a bunch of lil' old men having fun! Can't be the only one. =/
Well, the rest of us watched lasagnacat
jim davis = legend!
greetz from austria :)
"I'm not overweight, I'm under tall."
Larry sounds like Garfield !! Lol
Lol
live long and prosper Jim Davis don't die any time soon''! once your gone so is Garfield''!
I grew up reading these comics, I've drawn Garfield a lot.
you make me look bad Jim Davis and your team
I didn't know their were comics called US Acres. I knew the characters from Garfield and friends. But I didn't know there was a comic of them. I guess they were not as successful as Garfield and.
No need to draw new ones, just keep publishing the pipe strip
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY DAVIS
Dude is a billionair drawing a cat comic
I'm left-handed too.
:D
for some reason it kind of makes sense that one of the guys is left handed
Nice team work
This is history my dudes
Wow! I just draw my comic strips on paper, and add color with around 160 colored pencils.
This is basically my process
Dam it, ice cream! I'm tired of seeing you everywhere I am on youtube!!!!!!
I think Jim is actually Garfield in a human form.
I think Garfield turn into a very old cat I say a very old human cartoonist
Jim doesn’t even do it now!
I wish I had a team of people to help with my comic!
Just invent a hugely popular character and you can too.
@@j.walker6845 You can't make something popular from the get-go. The character has to start from unknown to being known.
@@SuperCartoonist My point is if you make a character, and then it becomes very popular, you can hire a staff :)
@@j.walker6845 I'm too poor for that.
@@SuperCartoonist Looks like you're on your own then.