"Garfield minus Garfield" gets a book deal

I find it kind of amazing that the six-month-old Garfield Minus Garfield comic strip is not only getting a book deal, but that original Garfield creator Jim Davis has endorsed and praised the doctored and altered versions of his comic strip. How cool is that? No lawsuit? No bitter distribe about the Intranets and those pesky bloggings? Oh lordie.

“I think it’s an inspired thing to do,” Davis said in a press release. “I want to thank Dan (Walsh) 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.’”

Oh, and "New York goes to Hollywood" might be the worst show I've ever seen.