Garfield

Garfield is the world's most widely read comic strip, created by Jim Davis featuring the cat Garfield, the less-than-brilliant pet dog Odie, and their socially inept owner Jon Arbuckle. The character is named after Davis's grandfather, James Garfield Davis, who was named after former U.S. president James Garfield.

Books

Numbered Paperbacks

These books, generally released twice a year, contain reprints of the comic as it appears in newspapers daily. Printed in black and white, each book covers approximately six months of comics, including the larger weekend comics (although without color).

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The titles of these books were styled as double entendres, often alluding to Garfield's weight or his habits. These books introduced the "Garfield format" in publishing, whereby the books are horizontally oriented to match comic strip dimensions. They are currently being reprinted in a larger format, showing the Sunday strips to be formatted in a size as they usually are, instead of shrunken-down to meet the book size. The new versions of the books will also be released in paperback only, and in full color (for every cartoon, not just the Sunday strips) for the first time.

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• Garfield At Large: His First Book 1980
• Garfield Gains Weight: His Second Book 1981
• Garfield Bigger than Life: His Third Book 1981
• Garfield Weighs In: His Fourth Book 1982
• Garfield Takes the Cake: His Fifth Book 1982
• Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His Sixth Book 1983
• Garfield Sits Around the House: His Seventh Book 1983
• Garfield Tips the Scales: His Eighth Book 1984
• Garfield Loses His Feet: His Nineth Book 1984
• Garfield Makes it Big: His 10th Book 1985
• Garfield Rolls On: His 11th Book 1985
• Garfield Out to Lunch: His 12th Book 1986
• Garfield Food for Thought: His 13th Book 1987
• Garfield Swallows His Pride: His 14th Book 1987
• Garfield World Wide: His 15th Book 1988
• Garfield Rounds Out: His 16th Book 1988
• Garfield Chews the Fat: His 17th Book 1989
• Garfield Goes to Waist: His 18th Book 1990
• Garfield Hangs Out: His 19th Book 1990
• Garfield Takes Up Space: His 20th Book 1991
• Garfield Says a Mouthful: His 21st Book 1991
• Garfield By the Pound: His 22nd Book 1992
• Garfield Keeps His Chins Up: His 23rd Book 1992
• Garfield Takes His Licks: His 24th Book 1993
• Garfield Hits the Big Time: His 25th Book 1993
• Garfield Pulls his Weight: His 26th Book 1994
• Garfield Dishes it Out: His 27th Book 1995
• Garfield Life in the Fat Lane: His 28th Book 1995
• Garfield Tons of Fun: His 29th Book 1996
• Garfield Bigger and Better: His 30th Book 1996
• Garfield Hams it Up: His 31st Book 1997
• Garfield Thinks Big: His 32nd Book 1997
• Garfield Throws His Weight Around: His 33rd Book 1998
• Garfield Life to the Fullest: His 34th Book 1999
• Garfield Feeds the Kitty: His 35th Book 1999
• Garfield Hogs the Spotlight: His 36th Book 2000
• Garfield Beefs Up: His 37th Book 2000
• Garfield Gets Cookin': His 38th Book 2001
• Garfield Eats Crow: His 39th Book 2003
• Garfield Survival of the Fattest: His 40th Book 2004
• Garfield Older and Wider: His 41st Book 2005
• In the UK, over 60 Garfield books, mainly 'Pocket Books' or paperbacks, have been published by Ravette. The format is slightly different, as the strips are presented in a vertical style.