A boingboing reader wrote in to describe his meeting with Jim Davis, where he discussed that awesome Halloween Garfield series I blogged about. Apparently, he had no idea it was such a hit on the Internet. He said he didn't base it on any previous cartoon:
It was simply a week before Halloween and Jim wanted to do something legitimately scary, as opposed to Halloween-scary. "Ghosts aren't scary..." he told me before explaining that before writing the strips he went around to everyone he knew and asked them what truly scared them. The answer he got most often was "being alone" or "dying alone". Just that simple.
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In completely unrelated news (that isn't really news at all), did you know that there's a piece of art on the Moon? There's even intrigue involving the convergence of space, art, and commerce!
In further non-news that's related to the last item, I never read much about the origin of the Moon before, until today. Behold: the giant impact hypothesis.
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Jim Davis is a hack
Posted by Tom Straub | January 4, 2007
Posted on January 4, 2007