Garfield Swallows His Pride: His 14th Book

Garfield Tips the Scales: His Eighth Book Garfield Sits Around the House: His Seventh Book Garfield Eats His Heart Out: His Sixth Book Garfield Bigger Than Life: His Third Book However, this means that the first panel after the logo box (called the drop panel because newspapers can drop it without ruining the point of the strip) is no longer printed in the compilation books.Įach of the original 36 books has been re-released in the new larger format, dubbed “Garfield Classics”. Volumes 37 and later introduced a new, larger square book in full color, showing the Sunday strips to be formatted in a size as they usually are, instead of shrunken-down to meet the book size. These books introduced the “Garfield format” in publishing, whereby the rectangular books are horizontally oriented to match comic strip dimensions Davis has recalled having to invent the format in order to better fit the books on store shelves. The titles of these books were styled as double entendres alluding to Garfield’s weight (Note: an extra at the end of a Garfield compilation advertised “rejected book titles”). Each book collects approximately six months of comics, including the Sunday comics (in black and white in the original books). The first 36 books were originally printed in black and white, with later books printed in full color. These books, generally released twice a year by Ballantine Books, contain reprints of the comic as it appears in newspapers daily. This is a list of the Garfield books released.Ĭompilation of books of Jim Davis's comic strip Garfield.

A 'Garfield Classic' version of his first book

Garfield at Large by Jim Davis