#nermal fan art

[unmooredmonroe]

80's teeny bopper witch Nermal for Gartober day 10: Nermal.

It was the only thing I could think of lol

[marble-pop]

almost forgot 2 post these

Ok so basically I was reading the pet force books and I wanted to color in the lil drawings in there and I'm kinda proud how it turned out

[squiddbubbles]

FIIIINE ill post on tumblr

[toonfoolery101]

FNF Abuse D-side concept.

Abuse D-Side be like:

[typhoid-mary-64]

09/07/23

Some age-old questions, no matter how much and for how long we've probed, haven't really yielded any answers. Questions such as "does the set of all sets contain itself?", "what happened to the Yuba County Five?" and, most pressing of all, "how come we don't see more fan art of Nermal, the androgynous tabby cat from Jim Davis' seminal masterwork "Garfield"?"

Well fear not! I got you freaks covered (regarding the last one that is)!!!

xoxo

[candiedgrim-blog]

Day 15: Nermal

[explode-this]

Garftober Day 10! Nermal.

[darknebula85]

Like everything in this life, once again, this wasn't planned XD. I saw on Twitter that there was a lot of buzz about the latest update of VS Gorefield, but I hadn't had the time to play it. But two days ago, I finally got around to doing it, and I truly have no words to describe how good CATaclysm is. The art is beautiful, the song is orgasmic, and playing it feels like a real battle against a boss fight; I would describe it as a fight where hope persists only to be defeated in the end. A very, very good song (And Nermal is the best Shonen protagonist). My opinion of the mod is that it's entertaining, it's not one of my favorites, but the work and care put into it are admirable... and CATaclysm is in the top 3 best fan boss fights of FNF, right there with All Stars, Finale and Athazagoraphobia.

My favorite part is the end... DIOS, que bien suena esa seccion final.

[robsheridan]

Poster for the unproduced 1984 live-action horror adaptation GARFIELD: FIRST BLOOD.

Following the success of CUJO in 1983, studios were scrambling to find the next hit “killer pet” flick. Notorious grindhouse auteur Ron Sharleton, seeking a big-budget movie deal to fund his struggling production of CANNIBAL QUARTERBACK 2, set his sights on the most unlikely of properties: Jim Davis’ beloved comic strip Garfield. Sharleton, a self-proclaimed fan of Garfield who called the strip “a subversive celebration of misanthropy,” believed an “alternative, adult” spin on the character could thrive in tandem with its kid-friendly cartoons. Describing his rationale in an interview later, Sharleton said: “You have all of these R-rated films that come out and become big hits and the studios want to suck every penny out of one idea, so they sanitize it and repackage it as a cartoon for kids. So I said, why can’t we do the reverse?”

GARFIELD: FIRST BLOOD was pitched as a dark, gritty reimagining in which the titular cat, pushed to the brink on a particularly bad Monday, finally snaps and kills Jon’s dimwitted dog Odie. As he tastes Odie’s blood, Garfield is overcome by how good it felt to put a permanent end to something that annoyed him. He then realizes that everything and everyone annoy him, and his murderous rampage begins.

Describing his take on the character, Sharleton said: “Garfield never really sat right with me as a children’s character. He’s so much darker, more complex. You have this cat who is filled with contempt; he looks at the world around him with radical skepticism and scowls at the prison of tedium mankind calls ‘society,’ and he responds with this very self-indulgent nihilism: Be lazy, be a glutton, don’t participate in anything because it’s all bullshit. Garfield looks at Jon waking up early on a Monday and putting on his tie to go to a job he hates, and he sees a pathetic fool. It’s all such a powerful rejection of the Reagan Wall Street capitalist disease that has poisoned the 80s. ‘Work hard, climb the ladder, buy a boat!’ Garfield says fuck that, stay home, eat lasagna, accept no master. But living as an iconoclast in a conformist world has filled him with all this tension. There’s anger in there, you know? So I wanted to examine what would happen if Garfield was finally pushed over the edge. Where’s the line between a passive nihilist and a violent anarchist?”

Warner Bros execs were intrigued by Sharleton’s pitch (and the lucrative cash cow of the Garfield brand) and funded a short “proof-of-concept” trailer, directed by Sharleton, to convince Garfield creator Jim Davis of the idea. The trailer reportedly went “all-in” on Sharleton’s signature “splattercore” horror, including a scene where Garfield grinds up Liz Wilson alive in a meat grinder and bakes her flesh into a lasagna he then serves to Jon. The presentation to Davis was described as “one of the most disastrously miscalculated meetings in modern Hollywood,” with Davis stopping the trailer midway to ask the room “are you people completely fucking insane?” before storming out.

Reflecting on the meeting years later, an anonymous former Warner exec said “we knew it was a long shot, but we really felt like the only way to sell the concept was to push it as far as possible. In retrospect I think yeah, we did let it go too far. We were so absorbed in it that we didn’t realize how jarring it would be for a guy like Jim Davis to just be thrown into this cold. I think it was a mistake to open with the Nermal blender scene, but we wanted shock, and we thought… I don’t know, everyone was doing a LOT of cocaine back then. Well, everyone except Jim Davis."

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[emmetofthestars]

my fan art👍

GEUUGHGHHHHHH SHES SO GORGHESTTTTTTTT YAAYYYYYY YAYYY YAYYY THANK YOU NERMAL

[soul-dwelling]

Speaking of Noodle, maybe I'm just a prude, but I felt kinda disturbed when the charachter we met as a little girl now "as an adult" was wearing a shirt that said "hello kinky" with bondage gear and all - like with all the orientalism and objectification of asian girls by europeans, it really did seemed like they groomed her - I know that the "lore" of her being ordered in a box was just for comedy, but with all the other implications it does kinda read like some dark humor about trafficking minors...

I’m going to be walking on eggshells here. 

People grow up. Characters can grow up. Fan artists create art and stories of characters as they get older, and that does mean there are going to be stories where this character who is a kid in current fiction is going to have grown older in this fanfic and is now an adult and is going to be doing things adults do. 

And in most fiction I would rather have a story that lets characters grow up. 

And I want fiction where we see their lives reach their end, so we stop constantly freezing certain characters to one time period and not letting them grow up and change. I want Peter Parker to get married and have kids; I want Hal Jordan, Barry Allen, and others to live their full lives, die, and not keep getting resurrected because some Silver Age fan can’t let them go; and that also means letting Noodle grow up. 

That doesn’t mean I like the choices made with Noodle, though. I haven’t thought about it as much as you have here, and I do admit that a lot of what you point to is engaging with orientalism and objectification, and I’m not sure whether it is doing so as commentary and indictment against orientalism and objectification, or whether it is just perpetuating them. I can argue that it is believable or, as much as I hate the word, realistic for a teenager like Noodle to decide it would be edgy to wear a shirt with “kinky” on it; whether that should not be represented in art is a different matter, and I would rather its presence be obvious why it is there than just seeming like a random choice with unfortunate implications. 

As you point out, there may be dark humor to all of this as well--which means sometimes the story is going to have something problematic or makes you uncomfortable, but for it to work as humor, that means there has to be something funny, whether by juxtaposition (“surprisingly happy child was kept in a box like Nermal in a Garfield cartoon but is cool with it”) or true (not necessarily that this has happened in real life, in which case I don’t think Gorillaz says much of anything about that real-life occurrence beyond “this is fucked up, right, that establishes our tone,” as much as it is acknowledging this is a trope in enough stories with varying degrees of success at saying anything meaningful--Outlaw Star and Firefly being two examples that immediately come to mind).

[orquidia]

garfield and friends gijinkas 

[marble-pop]

purposely held off on posting this until new years which is... now!

Hello 2024

[hyzenthlayroseart]

Garfield and friends in my style

[aaronshattuck]

Babies Having Garfields, an epic tragedy.

[erictmason]

Inktober, Part 16: Big Fat Hairy Deal

Come on in, come to the place

where the fun never ends!

Come on in, it’s time to party

with Garfield and friends!

How fitting I finally catch up on my Inktober prompts only to

a.) get super-duper sick, and

b.) encounter a prompt that really did little to inspire me, at least at first.

After thinking it over for a few hours, though, I knew I had to delve deep into my past and cross a threshold I had not imagined ever again crossing.  I had to draw Garfield fan art for the first time in two decades.