Second Garfield Treasury

Garfield Treasuries #2

by Jim Davis

Fasten your seatbelts for the Second Garfield Treasury --- a full-color reminder of the fun Garfield gets into on Sundays. He's cranky, he's hungry, and he sure knows what to do with his day off --- get into trouble and take Jon along with him!

Genres: Comics, Humor, Comic Strips, Fiction, Childrens, Cats

120 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1983

About the author

James 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.

Reviews

[Hen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bumped up a star due to nostalgic reasons

[Owen Beeswax · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this a long time ago back in 4th grade. All of the pages fell out and the librarian glued the pages back into the cover and it still looks great. It was a Garfield book so it was good.

[Rocco Perdenza · Rating 3 out of 5]

Garfield!!! First lil Garfield thing I’ve ever read, and it was pretty entertaining! Some jokes didn’t land whether it be a generational thing or simply just not being a cat owner, some just didn’t land for me. I bet it’d be a lot funnier if I had a cat and was living in the 80s, but it was still entertaining. Lasagna? On a Monday? You’re kidding!

[B. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Always good to revisit the classics. Early Garfield was my favorite Garfield :)

[Martha Mcgill · Rating 5 out of 5]

this was a wonderful trip down memory lane.!

[Marc · Rating 4 out of 5]

Mildly entertaining, and I read the book from cover to cover in one sitting. It was pleasant, so entertaining enough.

[Eric Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book was a lot more enjoyable to me back when I first read it in the early 90s, back when the regular Garfield books were published in black-and-white, rather than the current fully-colorized versions. That made seeing the Sunday strips in color in the treasury collections much appreciated. Now that the entire series is being re-published in color (including the daily strips), these treasuries don't really seem necessary now. But it's still a good feeling of nostalgia to flip through some of these books now.

[Zizi]

Loved it as the same

[Abel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very humorous, saw Garfield git eaten by a snake and a bear. Never seen that before.