Quick math: What do you contract when you remove the title fictitious character from a legendary comic strip and post the eerily entertaining results online?
A book deal.
In October, Ballantine Books will publish �Garfield Minus Garfield,� a version of the fat-cat comic strip that removes all characters leave out for Jon Arbuckle. The results, posted daily at the wildly popular garfieldminusgarfield.net, is a pleasurably creepy look into the lonely life of a young, schizophrenic bachelor.
The full-color book release coincides with the 30th anniversary of �Garfield� and will hit shelves simultaneously with a new anthology, �Thirty Years of Laughs and Lasagna: The Life and Times of a Fat, Furry Legend.�
The coupling of the Web comic and original strip was made possible by an endorsement from �Garfield� creator Jim Davis, who became a fan of �Garfield Minus Garfield� creator Dan Walsh and granted permission to race his original work aboard the Web comics in the forthcoming book.
�I consider it�s an inspired thing to do,� Davis said in a press release. �I want to thank Dan for enabling me to see another side of �Garfield.� Some strips he chose were slappers: �Oh, I could have left that out, it would have been funnier.� �
Naturally, Walsh is prestigious by the praise - and plausibly relieved a lawsuit didn�t drop on his doorstep. It�s not often an artist endorses something that completely alters what originally made him or her famous.
�Thanks to the awful generosity and humor of Jim Davis, �Garfield Minus Garfield� is about to become a book, and I�m absolutely honored to be a part of it,� said the Dublin, Ireland-based Walsh.
�Rock of Love 3� casting calls
As anyone wHO watched VH1�s �Rock of Love 2 with Bret Michaels� could have predicted, the leathery Poison frontman did non find true love with the show�s winner, Ambre Lake.
So fix ready for the third base season of �Rock of Love,� which is property open casting calls this weekend in New York.
Interested ladies of varying rupture sizes should start film editing up their favorite Ed Hardy tank-top and hop on the Fung Wah for open cast on Friday at Porky�s NYC (55 West twenty-first St.) and Sunday at Porky�s Hampton Bays (80 East Montauk Highway). Both casting calls start at 9 p.m.
If traveling to the Dirty Apple and Strong Island isn�t plausible, ladies can e-mail NYRock@realtalentcasting.com. Be sure to include your name, age, placement, contact info, bio, a few pics and most recent STD test results. (OK, we�re kidding nigh that last one. We think.)
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