Garfield Veterans Day Comic Strip
Cartoonist Jim Davis apologized Thursday for a Garfield Veterans Day Comic Strip that some veterans might have found offensive.
The strip ran on Veterans Day in newspapers across the country. It shows a spider daring the pudgy orange cat to squash it. The spider tells Garfield that if he’s killed, “they will hold an annual day of remembrance in my honor.”
The final panel shows a spider-teacher asking its college students if they know why spiders celebrate “National Stupid Day.”
“It absolutely, positively has nothing to do with this important day of remembrance,” Davis stated. Davis stated his brother served in Vietnam, and his son can be a Marine who has served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He stated he’s grateful for the service of veterans, and known as any offense “unintentional and regrettable.”
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