‘You know, I’m not new to live TV — in 1952, I starred in my first live sitcom, which was ‘Life with Elizabeth,’ joked Betty White. ‘And, of course, back then we didn’t want to do it live. We just didn’t know how to tape things. So I don’t know what this show’s excuse is.’
For the most part, Garfield was a strip about the banalities of life. But Jim Davis would occasionally prove that he was capable of much darker, more terrifying stories.
For a week in 1989, sandwiched between long Sunday stories about hunting birds and drinking coffee, Jim Davis took readers on a week-long roller coaster of existential despair and abject horror: