The Last Monday Garfield Download
Leslee Galyan
The monument was moved to Garfield Park in 1928, at a time when the Ku Klux Klan was active in the state, by public officials who sought to make the monument more visible to the public," according to a news release issued last week by the city of Indianapolis.
In March 1978, United Feature Syndicate accepted the strip for national distribution (which had been retitled Garfield on September 1, 1977), and the last Pendleton Times strip ran on March 2, 1978. United Feature Syndicate debuted the strip nationwide debut in 41 newspapers, starting on June 19, 1978. After a test run, the Chicago Sun-Times dropped the Garfield strip, only to reinstate it after readers' complaints.[1][8]
Gags in the strips commonly deal with Garfield's obesity (in one strip, Jon jokes: "I wouldn't say Garfield is fat, but the last time he got on a Ferris wheel, the two guys on top starved to death")[69] and his disdain of any form of exertion or work. He is known for saying "breathing is exercise".
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