I'm pretty sure I've been plagiarized.
Yesterday, after I posted my own Garfield Minus Garfield strips, one of them - the one with the ice cream - appeared on the original website, as you can see if you go there.
At first, I thought it was just coincidence that the creator of that site and I had both happened to stumble upon that strip in the Garfield archives and thought it would be funny without the cat. Upon closer inspection, however, I saw that the strip on the other person's website had the exact same little uneven "I Photoshopped this slightly haphazardly" lines in the exact same places - on the edge of the table in the first and second panels, on the swoosh in the third panel, and barely visible on Jon's ice cream in the second panel.
I have no idea how the creator of that site found my obscure little blog so quickly, but he/she did not contact me or credit me in any way. There is also no way to contact this person through his/her site - no e-mail links or guestbook, and comments are disabled.
What maddens me is that, since the daily comics do not include the times that they were posted, there is no way to prove that I made it first. What's more, since this person is the one with an already established website, who are people more likely to believe?
Creator of Garfield Minus Garfield - if you are reading this, I still respect your sense of humor, and I'm not going to confront you about this, mostly because it's impossible, but I want to know how you found me and why you saw fit to pass off my work as your own.
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so fucking weird