Garfield strip ill-timed for Veterans Day.

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Jim Davis, the cartoonist behind Garfield, apologized on Thursday for a comic strip that stirred up controversy when it published on Veteran’s Day. In the strip, Garfield stands above a spider with a rolled up newspaper cocked in-hand. The spider taunts the cat, saying if he squishes him, “they will hold an annual day of remembrance in my honor.” In the final frame, a spider dangling over a teacher’s desk asks a class, “Does anyone here know why we celebrate ‘National Stupid Day?’” Davis said the strip was created almost a year ago and that running that particular comic on Veteran’s Day was the “worst timing ever.”