I'd Like Mornings Better If They Started Later

by Jim Davis

For the world’s sleepiest cat, waking up is hard to do. This book shows why Garfield can’t get up for mornings. To him, “Good Morning” is a contradiction in terms.

Genres: Humor, Graphic Novels, Comics

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 1, 1996

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

[Mariℓina · Rating 2 out of 5]

A cute, little book with many thoughtful sayings about waking up, sleeping all day and of course, Mondays.


Let's be honest, the book is nothing special, but a tiny, sweet, funny read which you can even call a bed time story.

[Rachel · Rating 4 out of 5]

4 stars


Only downside is that it was too short.

Garfield and I are always going to have a great time together. I couldn't find a better character if I tried. He is probably my absolute all time favourite character. Smart assed, sarcastic (aren't they the same thing?) Hilarious, and tries to do everything the lazy way.

I can never get enough of these books and hope they keep being made.

[Sadie-Jane Huff · Rating 4 out of 5]

Book 257 of 300 ~ 2024

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Some good ones, especially since I am not a morning person or early bird as they call it lol

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[Nikki · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kind of a pointless book. I had thought it was Garfield comics but that’s not what it is at all. It’s just random comments you can imagine Garfield making about mornings with pictures of Garfield thrown in. It took less than five minutes to read. Some of the comments were funny and I could imagine Garfield saying them in my mind but other than that it was pretty much pointless.

[Gary Vassallo · Rating 4 out of 5]

A quick, fun read. Some great one-liners about mornings and the difficulty of waking up in typical Garfield style.

[Elizabeth · Rating 2 out of 5]

Bleh

[Emerson John Tiu Ng · Rating 5 out of 5]

short funny book

[Nirupama P.R.V. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hilarious!

[Elruin Elmsroot · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wholeheartedly agreed.....

[Chinook · Rating 1 out of 5]

Jim Davis is going to be a Comic Con, so I thought I’d read some Garfield. Unfortunately this isn’t the comic strips, job st some single panel illustrations with one sentence punch lines. And it’s not funny. Will try again.

[Kim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Utterly adorable!

[Steve Scott · Rating 1 out of 5]

This wasn't really cute nor funny. It's short. Really short. It will take less than three minutes to read.

[Adam]

Maybe

I got this because I thought it would be like a normal Garfield book.a comic. It was not . It is so short.like a little kid book.i say 3-6