Being Jim Davis

  Garfield's belly as depicted yesterday and today, side by side   GARFIELD:Let us from point to point this story know,To make the even truth in pleasure flow.To JON ARBUCKLEIf thou be'st yet a fresh uncropped flower,Choose thou thy husband, and I'll pay thy dower;For I can guess that by thy honest aidThou keep'st a wife herself, thyself a maid.Of that and all the progress, more or less,Resolvedly more leisure shall express:All yet seems well; and if it end so meet,The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet.Flourish-EPILOGUE-GARFIELDThe king's a beggar, now the play is done:All is well ended, if this suit be won,That you express content; which we will pay,With strife to please you, day exceeding day:Ours be your patience then, and yours our parts;Your gentle hands lend us, and take our hearts.ExeuntToday's strip