Reception
Brad Anderson won the National Cartoonists Society's Reuben Award for Newspaper Panel Cartoon in 1978, and the George Arents Pioneer Medal for Syracuse University alumni in 1999.
Marmaduke continues to be widely syndicated, and is popular with readers: attempts to cancel Marmaduke have drawn protest, such as those by readers of The Toronto Star in 1999, of the Sarasota Herald Tribune in 2007, and of the Chicago Sun-Times in 1986.
Despite this, its longevity and perceived monotony have been noted by satirical publications such as The Onion, and made it a butt of jokes, or "a hot source of retro-ironic-subversive humor": a blog called "Joe Mathlete Explains Today's Marmaduke" deconstructs the strip to offer an alternative explanation for what's happening in the drawing; another blog called "Marmaduke Can Vote" gives each panel a political slant; and "The Marmaduke Project" re-imagines Marmaduke in other forms.
In his satirical analysis at The Comic Strip Doctor, David Malki of Wondermark ranked Marmaduke among "the worst newspaper comic strips" alongside Heathcliff, Family Circus and Dennis the Menace.
There was one episode of "Garfield and Friends" in which the cartoon was purposely making mistakes, at the end Garfield calls Odie in which Odie was replaced by Marmaduke.
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