YMMV / Gnorm Gnat

• Audience-Alienating Premise: Invoked by Davis' editors who bluntly told him that a comic about insects would never achieve widespread popularity, causing Davis to end the strip and explicitly avert the issue with Garfield as cats are a popular animal.
• Hilarious in Hindsight:
  • Davis ended Gnorm Gnat as he was told by many people that insects would never be popular as subject matter. A few years later, we got The Far Side which not only became wildly popular, even to this day, but also featured insects.
  • Even though The Buzz on Maggie managed to be more successful than Gnorm Gnat, its negative reception overseas resulted in its cancellation, joining Gnorm in the club of short-lived series starring cartoon insects.