Day: March 5, 2024

It’s no secret what this comic is satirizing. That said, I was a HUGE Garfield fan when I was a kid. I loved everything about that comic strip! I remember having a few of the books as a kid and coloring them with colored pencils. I also remember seeing the book Garfield: His 9 Lives and wanting it but thinking it would be too outlandish to ask my parents to get it for me – it seemed too much of a luxury. Looking back, I should have asked. Who knows? They may have gotten it for me.

There was a cartoon when I was a kid and I thought Bill Murray was the voice of Garfield since it was the same voice as Venkman in the Ghostbusters cartoon. I just found this blog post that helped me understand my confusion. It’s been decades, and I found out now.

I created this comic while on a business trip for work. Honestly, I don’t know how to categorize it. It’s not quite a gag, not quite a poem… more of a satirical take on local musicians in dog form. I didn’t give it much thought – simply let it flow out of my brain.

The video below was interesting to generate. I took a stock song in TikTok and laid it down on the video. Since I couldn’t hear the song while adding the vocals, I had to sing in silence, attempting to imagine the tempo and tone of the underlying song. It doesn’t line up, of course. I’m not a psychic. But it got the job done.

One more quick note: Jessica told me she likes it when I use my own voice on the videos so I decided to sing it without any voice modulator/filter. And while the voice isn’t my normal voice, it’s my voice… if that makes sense.