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Garfield Treasuries #4
Fourth Garfield Treasury
Enjoy Garfield in beautiful, colorful splendor in this fourth treasury of his Sunday comic antics. He eats, he teases, he sleeps. It's the life of Garfield, and you won't want to be without it.
128 pages, Paperback
First published October 12, 1987
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Jim Davis
2,359 books635 followersJames Robert "Jim" Davis is an American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield. Other comics that he has worked on are Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, Slapstick, and a strip about Mr. Potato Head.
Jim Davis was born in Fairmount, Indiana, near Marion, where he grew up on a small farm with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine (Carter) Davis, brother Dave, and 25 cats. Davis' childhood on a farm parallels the life of his cartoon character Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, who was also raised on a farm with his parents and a brother, Doc Boy. Jon, too, is a cartoonist, and also celebrates his birthday on July 28. Davis attended Ball State University. While attending Ball State, he became a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. He earned the dubious honor of earning one of the lowest cumulative grade point averages in the history of the university, an honor incidentally shared with Late Show host David Letterman.
Davis as of 2007 resides in Muncie, Indiana, where he and his staff produce Garfield under his company, Paws, Inc., begun in 1981. He was married to Carolyn, a singer and elementary teacher whom he met while both were attending college, and has a son named James with her. However, the couple divorced, and Davis since 2000 has been married to Jill, Paws' senior vice president of licensing, who has worked there approximately 25 years.
Ironically, Davis did not own cats when he started Garfield because of Carolyn's allergies, but they owned a Labrador retriever named Molly. With Jill, the family has expanded to include children Ashley and Chris; three grandchildren, Chloe, Carly and Cody; cats, Spunky and Nermal; and a dog, Pooky.
Jim Davis was born in Fairmount, Indiana, near Marion, where he grew up on a small farm with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine (Carter) Davis, brother Dave, and 25 cats. Davis' childhood on a farm parallels the life of his cartoon character Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, who was also raised on a farm with his parents and a brother, Doc Boy. Jon, too, is a cartoonist, and also celebrates his birthday on July 28. Davis attended Ball State University. While attending Ball State, he became a member of the Theta Xi fraternity. He earned the dubious honor of earning one of the lowest cumulative grade point averages in the history of the university, an honor incidentally shared with Late Show host David Letterman.
Davis as of 2007 resides in Muncie, Indiana, where he and his staff produce Garfield under his company, Paws, Inc., begun in 1981. He was married to Carolyn, a singer and elementary teacher whom he met while both were attending college, and has a son named James with her. However, the couple divorced, and Davis since 2000 has been married to Jill, Paws' senior vice president of licensing, who has worked there approximately 25 years.
Ironically, Davis did not own cats when he started Garfield because of Carolyn's allergies, but they owned a Labrador retriever named Molly. With Jill, the family has expanded to include children Ashley and Chris; three grandchildren, Chloe, Carly and Cody; cats, Spunky and Nermal; and a dog, Pooky.
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May 14, 2017
Another re-read
September 10, 2017
Garfield, which was never funny, holds up better than Dilbert, which I remember laughing at.
April 18, 2010
i will love garfield forever....=DDDDDD
August 24, 2011
Legomeister loves these.
July 25, 2013
Love this so much, I use to read this comic book strip when I was a kid, Garfield will always be my favorite comic book strip series.
June 11, 2018
I used to love Garfield when he first appeared. Then I got bored with him by 1985 or so and stopped getting any books or watching the cartoon series or anything like that. He seemed so overexposed that at times I felt that Garfield was stalking me.
Then I came across this in my library and thought I'd give it a try. It contains Sunday strips from late 1985 and into 1986. I forgot how slapstick the comedy can be and totally forgot how funny it could be. There are some complex and very detailed panels at times, but mostly it's the usual spare setting focusing on the characters.
If you've never read Garfield before then this is a good place to start. The best place to start would be the first book Garfield at Large but you still get a good idea of what the Garfield Universe is all about. You get to see that Garfield is so beloved because he gets away doing and saying things that we can't. At the end is a nice (but too short) piece on how the Sunday strips were made.
Then I came across this in my library and thought I'd give it a try. It contains Sunday strips from late 1985 and into 1986. I forgot how slapstick the comedy can be and totally forgot how funny it could be. There are some complex and very detailed panels at times, but mostly it's the usual spare setting focusing on the characters.
If you've never read Garfield before then this is a good place to start. The best place to start would be the first book Garfield at Large but you still get a good idea of what the Garfield Universe is all about. You get to see that Garfield is so beloved because he gets away doing and saying things that we can't. At the end is a nice (but too short) piece on how the Sunday strips were made.
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