While I try to actually have time to finish my draft on the recent Komikon, here’s one thing worthy of #ThrowbackThursday:
JIM DAVIS and GARFIELD!!!
A letter from the creator himself
Here’s what the letter said…
Dear Jennifer,
Thank you for your wonderful letter. I’m delighted you enjoy GARFIELD and thank you for following his daily antics.
I’ve enclosed an autographed print that I hope you will enjoy.
GARFIELD and I will do our best to keep you entertained.
Sincerely,
A specially printed paper with Jim Davis’ autograph on it
Okay, I know that celebrities–and that includes famous cartoonists like Jim Davis–often just hire people to do this kind of stuff for them. But I know the autograph is real. That’s because I found out how to send him a letter and if he would answer himself from a kid’s magazine. There was a sort of directory meant for parents giving the right addresses to write to for their kids and explaining who actually answered and how. For instance, any adult would know that the Sesame Street puppets and muppets weren’t real. So the magazine honestly said that a staff would “write back” to the kids as Big Bird or Elmo or whoever, being “in character.”
Well, I definitely wasn’t a kid anymore and wouldn’t want someone pretending to be GARFIELD writing to me. So I straight out told Jim in the letter my age and asked if it would be okay for him to send me an autograph either signed on a printed thing or even just simple paper. So he did! Such a cool guy! You can even examine the thing and you’ll know it’s not some signature already printed along with the Garfield and Odie image.
Anyhoo, that’s what I thought of posting today. Kind of timely as it’s Thursday, isn’t it?
The End Justifies the Journey 