Jim Davis on Garfield's Influence in the Age of the Internet Cat — wired.com

We like to think that cats really lucked out with the whole Internet thing. Before kitteh memes became lingua franca of the web, cat people were a relative minority and the hijinks of any individual animal were largely just enjoyed by their owners. Now, thanks to the likes of bonsai kittens and I Can Has Cheezburger, cattitude is a huge deal. It seems it doesn’t matter what kind of meme it is, if there’s play on the feline take-it-or-leave-it approach then it’s a hit. That would make it easy to assume the Internet has been a surprising PR boon for the brand of humor cats bring to the table.

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