Heathcliff by Peter Gallagher for January 31, 2022

“and who better embodies the definition of imagination if not a simple man. a cartoonist, who puts his ideas to paper so that they may live on, so that our children, and our children’s children, and their children’s children’s children can access the wealth of ideas that have accumulated thus far.They will plug themselves into an information grid, and they will have access. They will read every Garfield comic, 80,000 years from now, a child will see a simple Jon Arbuckle, reading a newspaper. He will feel around for something, but that something is not there. He will lift his head and think.“Now where could my pipe be?”.and Garfield will be smoking the pipe, and Jon will yell “GARFIELD!”.and what then? 80,000 years from now?The child reading this comic will smile. and that smile will transcend space and time and the physical limitations of this existence, whatever they may be, however many dimensions exist.There will always be Garfield. and there will always be its creator. Jim Davis”