Garfield 4-22: US Acres cameos?
Metlhd3138
(forget his name), an older version of orson, and the dog and cat (forget their
names as well).
Artie5
I think that the characters looked remotely like the US Acres characters, like
black market versions. I thought Cody (the dog) and Blue Eyes (the kittycat)
were different colors in US Acres.
Kyle Cinelli
"Metlhd3138" <metlh...@aol.com> wrote in message
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Ok, this brings up something for me: Whatever happened to the USAcres
Strip? Archives, ect?
Kyle
Jym Dyer
> USAcres Strip? Archives, ect?
=v= The idea was to do "a children's strip," with gags dumbed
down to even sub-_Garfield_ levels. I feel sorry for children
because they're often being treated so patronizingly. The strip
didn't turn out to be popular. Kids avoided it in droves.
=v= It spun off a Saturday morning animated cartoon feature,
which was pretty much an anemic imitation of old Warner Brothers
barnyard cartoons.
=v= Obviously the idea was to merchandise it out the wazoo.
Collect the whole farm! Instead, the strip bought the farm.
<_Jym_>
MEPeterson
>=v= The idea was to do "a children's strip," with gags dumbed
>down to even sub-_Garfield_ levels. I feel sorry for children
>because they're often being treated so patronizingly. The strip
>didn't turn out to be popular. Kids avoided it in droves.
>
Without having followed Garfield closely enough to really be sure of this, I
have always kind of assumed that Davis decided he wanted to do a strip for
kids, it tanked, and so he just turned Garfield into a kids' strip. But I'm not
sure that the crossover moment when Garfield went from a edgy, funny strip
about a 20-something guy and his cat to a kids' strip about a cat who sleeps,
eats and squashes spiders co-incided with the birth and death of US Acres.
US Acres, mind you, was insipid and preachy, which Garfield, for all its
faults, is not.
Mike Peterson
Glens Falls NY
Brian Henke
>have always kind of assumed that Davis decided he wanted to do a strip for
>kids, it tanked, and so he just turned Garfield into a kids' strip. But I'm
>not
>sure that the crossover moment when Garfield went from a edgy, funny strip
>about a 20-something guy and his cat to a kids' strip about a cat who sleeps,
>eats and squashes spiders co-incided with the birth and death of US Acres.
>
>US Acres, mind you, was insipid and preachy, which Garfield, for all its
>faults, is not.
>
>Mike Peterson
>Glens Falls NY
>
was a big Garfield fan in the late 70s and well into the 80s).
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Pocketwatch
Jym Dyer wrote:
> > Ok, this brings up something for me: Whatever happened to the
> > USAcres Strip? Archives, ect?
>
> =v= The idea was to do "a children's strip," with gags dumbed
> down to even sub-_Garfield_ levels.
Sub- Garfield levels? Is that even possible? Do you mean the Garfield of
today?
Or the Garfield of ten years ago?
> I feel sorry for children
> because they're often being treated so patronizingly. The strip
> didn't turn out to be popular. Kids avoided it in droves.
>
> =v= It spun off a Saturday morning animated cartoon feature,
> which was pretty much an anemic imitation of old Warner Brothers
> barnyard cartoons.
>
> =v= Obviously the idea was to merchandise it out the wazoo.
> Collect the whole farm! Instead, the strip bought the farm.
> <_Jym_>
Odd, I don't remember seeing any US Acres merchandise. Of course, then
again, I didn't see that many US Acres "Books" for that matter.
Anthony Dean
<Pocke...@wans.net> wrote:
> Jym Dyer wrote:
>
> > > Ok, this brings up something for me: Whatever happened to the
> > > USAcres Strip? Archives, ect?
> >
> > =v= The idea was to do "a children's strip," with gags dumbed
> > down to even sub-_Garfield_ levels.
>
> Sub- Garfield levels? Is that even possible? Do you mean the Garfield of
> today?
> Or the Garfield of ten years ago?
>
I'm presuming he means today's Garfield (spider-smashing en masse and
such)...
> > I feel sorry for children
> > because they're often being treated so patronizingly. The strip
> > didn't turn out to be popular. Kids avoided it in droves.
> >
> > =v= It spun off a Saturday morning animated cartoon feature,
> > which was pretty much an anemic imitation of old Warner Brothers
> > barnyard cartoons.
> >
(Shrug) I thought their Sat. AM incarnation (as a secondary cartoon for
"Garfield and Friends") was somewhat amusing..the only place where "US
Acres" had anything vaguely resembling success apparently (and the last
place where Garfield was given something to do other than smash
spiders, it seems).
> > =v= Obviously the idea was to merchandise it out the wazoo.
> > Collect the whole farm! Instead, the strip bought the farm.
> > <_Jym_>
>
> Odd, I don't remember seeing any US Acres merchandise. Of course, then
> again, I didn't see that many US Acres "Books" for that matter.
A long time ago, I saw (at K-Mart) a few US Acres books, though I don't
recall anything in them being much to write home about....also seen a
children's storybook centering around Sheldon (the egg)'s "birthday"...
Anthony
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Anthony Dean <ade...@yacrudhoo.com> wrote:
>(Shrug) I thought their Sat. AM incarnation (as a secondary cartoon for
>"Garfield and Friends") was somewhat amusing..the only place where "US
>Acres" had anything vaguely resembling success apparently (and the last
>place where Garfield was given something to do other than smash
>spiders, it seems).
>
>
I think I saw one of these -- maybe I just lucked out and it was the only
funny one, but I thought it was quite good. Through some unlikely
natural phenomena a chocolate mine(!) sprang up on the farm(?). The best
part was they brought in Mr. Peabody (the dog) to explain how this was even
possible. (Apparently they couldn't use his name, but it was him..)
Ted
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wrote:
>Odd, I don't remember seeing any US Acres merchandise. Of course, then
>again, I didn't see that many US Acres "Books" for that matter.
I have a few books and have never been sure if I got them all. I
liked the way the characters were drawn.
Oh, and I found a stuffed Roy Rooster on Ebay once. I've never seen
any other merchandise.
Rhonda
Mark Jackson
> In article <3AE3B221...@wans.net>, Pocketwatch
> <Pocke...@wans.net> wrote:
> > Odd, I don't remember seeing any US Acres merchandise. Of course, then
> > again, I didn't see that many US Acres "Books" for that matter.
>
> A long time ago, I saw (at K-Mart) a few US Acres books, though I don't
> recall anything in them being much to write home about....also seen a
> children's storybook centering around Sheldon (the egg)'s "birthday"...
Doug Krause, who for a while maintained a listing of comics collections,
posted on March 1, 1995:
> U.S. Acres (by Jim Davis)
> -------------------------
> Take This Rooster, Please!
> Try Counting Sheep
> U.S. Acres Counts Its Chickens
> Pharos Books
> ISBN 0-88687-314-2
> U.S. Acres Goes Half Hog
> Pharos Books
> ISBN 0-88687-300-2
> U.S. Acres Hams It Up, Vol. 5
> Pharos Books
> ISBN 0-88687-469-6
> U.S. Acres Rules the Roost
> Pharos Books
> ISBN 0-88687-341-X
> U.S. Acres Runs Amuck
> Pharos Books
> ISBN 0-88687-437-8
> U.S. Acres the Big Camp Out
> Bantam Books, Incorporated
> ISBN 0-553-34714-4
> U.S. Acres Wade Dives In
> Bantam Books, Incorporated
> ISBN 0-553-34713-6
> U.S. Acres
> Bantam Books, Incorporated
> ISBN 0-553-34831-0
> U.S. Acres: Beware! Rooster at Work
> Bantam Books, Incorporated
> ISBN 0-553-34766-7
> U.S. Acres: Happy Birthday Sheldon!
> Bantam Books, Incorporated
> ISBN 0-553-34873-6
> U.S. Acres: Sir Orson to the Rescue
> Bantam Books, Incorporated
> ISBN 0-553-34765-9
> Words to Live By
> Ballantine Books, Incorporated
> ISBN 0-345-36679-4
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