That's actually pretty good for a modern Garfield. There have been some with literally no change other than the speech bubbles.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

Figure this one out: When I originally drew and submitted this cartoon, the ants were carrying an older man. That's it, everything else was identical. The cartoon came back to me, unused, with the words "no thanks" written across i from my editor.

I waited a few weeks, and then resubmitted the cartoon―only this time with a baby substituted for the man. And then they accepted it! I'm still scratching my head about that one.

Also, pretty sure those are supposed to be lips, not teeth. Think the colorist misinterpreted that.

For anyone else unfamiliar with the author:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Payson_Terhune

Albert Payson Terhune was an American writer, dog breeder, and journalist. He was popular for his novels relating the adventures of his beloved collies and as a breeder of collies at his Sunnybank Kennels, the lines of which still exist in today's Rough Collies.

Whoops, just realized I accidentally double-posted one image and missed this one, which might have been a bit confusing:

Makes sense, thanks for the background! Interesting to hear about Arne Beurling, not something you hear about nearly as much as Turing / Enigma machine

Yeah, I automatically include the trivia from the Peanuts wiki, but it's sometimes rather useless trivia

Seems like a good idea to have a pretend murder with a detective skulking around hoping for something exciting to bust.

All of the neon gives it very strong proto-cyberpunk vibes.

Were there ever really any repercussions for working with the Nazis, or was it just kind of quietly forgotten?

She liked women:

Jansson had several male lovers, including the political philosopher Atos Wirtanen, and briefly became engaged to him. He was the inspiration for the Moomin character Snufkin. However, she eventually "went over to the spook side" as she is said to have put it —a coded expression for homosexuality—and developed a secret love affair with the married theater director Vivica Bandler. In 1956 Jansson met her lifelong partner, Tuulikki Pietilä, known as "Tooti". In Helsinki they lived apart but nearby, so they could meet unnoticed, but this did not resolve the problem that Jansson's mother often came to stay. They found a partial solution by building a house on a small island in the Gulf of Finland, and staying there for the summer. Jansson's and Pietilä's travels and summers spent together on the Klovharu island in Pellinki have been captured on several hours of film, shot by Pietilä.

Hard to say if she was a lesbian or bi or what exactly since it wasn't great to be gay back then, but this is probably commentary to the effect of "Why does it matter if you like men or women?"

He talks about that in the commentary for another comic:

Transcript:

The goal in any cartoon is to create that perfect marriage between the drawing and the caption (if there is one). And this cartoon, I feel, is a good example of when that goal is reached.

Visually, I wanted to capture the look and feel of a scene from an old Bogart film. (I would have preferred the elephant to be a little more hidden in the shadows under the staircase, but it's difficult to pull off those subtleties in newsprint.)

But the caption had to accomplish the same dramatic touch. In general, it's risky to write long captions that contain two or more sentences, because it tends to break continuity with the static image. I think this one works, however, because there's no exaggerated action in the drawing. The elephant is speaking under his breath, and Mr. Schneider has turned around and frozen in his tracks. Even if this little scene were animated, we wouldn't see much more movement than what's captured in this cartoon.

Some background on this comic:

This cartoon has always bothered my because of a basic error: The birds' wings are raised before the question is even asked. I think it would have been better in this case to have just left the wings down.

If anyone's wondering why:

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