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Garfield as a betyár - late Bday gift for TeeJay87

Garfield as a betyár - late Bday gift for TeeJay87

Garfield as a betyár - late Bday gift for TeeJay87 by alitta2
Garfield as a betyár - late Bday gift for TeeJay87 by alitta2

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As the title says, it's Garfield as a Hungarian outlaw (known as "betyár" in Hungarian) from the mid-19th century.
These bandits were active from the late 17th century up to the 1870's, most notably on those rural parts of Hungary (being part of the Habsburg Monarchy that time), where the legislation was relatively weak, like in the Great Plains, Transylvania or the mountainous regions of the country.
In spite of commiting crimes against civilians, some of them became famous and respected by their folks, as there are many stories and ballads about them, in which they are praised due to robbing out rich noblemans and helping those poor people, who had several affairs against the local government.
Probably the most famous ones among them are Jóska Sobri and Sándor Rózsa (whose portrait inspired me for this picture), as there are books,movies, television series, and even jolly songs about their lives: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lS6gjlavdDE


Garfield's pose is based on the portrait of Sándor Rózsa: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A1ndor_R%C3%B3zsa

Garfield belongs to Jim Davis

This is for you TeeJay87! Hope you'll like it ;)
Also sorry that it's a bit late. 

  

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Category Comics » - Newspaper Comics (strips) » Garfield
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Reference portrait of Sándor Rózsa, link in the description

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Saltwater on December 12, 2015, 12:04:07 PM

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SaltwaterWow! this is great and very cool!
You managed very well to integer the Magyar folklore and the concept of the betyár to the American character of Garfield.
Even the big moustache of the betyár fits perfectly with the big whiskers of Garfield.  LOL 
So creative and very well done!        

alitta2 on December 15, 2015, 1:23:57 AM

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alitta2Thanks much :)
To be honest, the idea came from Rózsa's portrait, and Garfield's whiskers on the comic strip I've used as a reference were in the same position, so that's why I didn't add a moustache in the end, even I had thought about to do so before I've seen that strip.

TeeJay87 on December 10, 2015, 8:03:11 AM

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TeeJay87I've read about those outlaws and couple of them weren't just bandits robbing people. Sándor Rózsa took part in 1848 Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungarian_Revolution_of_1848 , the same one, where our Polish legions fought the Habsburg Monarchy - which was rather struggle for freedom than raiding others for cash. Slovaks have similar heroic rogue called Janosik https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juraj_J%C3%A1no%C5%A1%C3%ADk , who used to be popular in our folklore as well.

Of course, this background makes your picture even better; thanks for such lovely gift ! ^^


alitta2 on December 10, 2015, 12:38:08 PM

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alitta2You're welcome ;)
Yes, I forgot to write that Sándor Rózsa participated in the 1848 revolution as well, and he was imprisoned many times, notably in Kufstein, where the citizens could watch him live exhibited at the town's market for some cash.
I've heard of Juraj Janošik, some sources mistakenly consider him being of Hungarian descendant in Slovakia, but he was all Slovakian, they just "magyarized" his name to Jánosik György (such thing was a trend around the time of the A-H Monarchy, for example Jules Verne is also known as "Verne Gyula" here, and his books got to be published under that name as well). 
He's less known in our folklore than Rózsa or Sobri, or even Marci Zöld, who lived also in the early 18th century.  

TeeJay87 on December 12, 2015, 12:34:00 PM

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TeeJay87Forgot to say, we did adapt Hungarian word "betyar" into Polish - as "batiar" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batiar , meaning "lower-class citizen from Lwów ( Lviv)". ;)

alitta2 on December 15, 2015, 1:20:44 AM

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alitta2Thanks for the info! It astonishes me that the word "batiar" actually comes from our "betyár". I had known that our "huszár" is originated from Polish "hussar", meaning the same, but the usage of the word for cavalry units came to fashion notably around the Revolution of 1848-49 as I know (prior that, "vitéz" was a more common word for them). 

Falconlobo on December 10, 2015, 9:11:12 AM

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FalconloboLooks cool^^

alitta2 on December 10, 2015, 12:21:16 PM

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alitta2Thanks^^

Falconlobo on December 10, 2015, 1:03:30 PM

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cavaloalado on December 10, 2015, 11:47:11 AM

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cavaloaladoVery nice!

alitta2 on December 10, 2015, 12:20:58 PM

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alitta2Thanks :)