Garfield: Family Style

by Ryan Estrada, Brinson Thieme

Live, Laugh, Lasagna! He’s selfish, sarcastic, lazy, yet surprisingly endearing – he’s Garfield!

Inspired by the 2024 film, experience more hilarious hijinks in this collection of stories featuring everyone’s favorite Monday-hating cat, alongside Odie and Garfield’s feline father, Vick!

Take a peek into the past as Vick balances working a “job” and checking up on Garfield. Odie must master the role of unpaid intern and midnight munchie monitor and see what Jon was really like without Garfield (and Odie)! Dive into outtakes of Jinx’s schemes and the good ol’ days at Lactose Farms with Otto and Ethel.

Collects Garfield #1-4.

112 pages, Paperback

Published May 13, 2025

Reviews

[Ya Boi Be Reading · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 weakly rounded up. Definitely different from the newspaper Garfield comics but not terribly as a kids comedy comic. The comedy was a bit soft and tame for me but the concepts for some of them were neat it was just the execution of it being for a much younger audience. I love the artwork in here. A lot of the artists really go into that exaggerated craziness Garfield comics can do and pull it off really well. They're all very comfy art styles and bring a good sense of youthful joy that really makes the reading experience of the comic. It is based off of the new movie but I haven't watched the new movie yet and could easily follow along enough with some assumptions about the weird focus on milk and cheese being because of the movie's plot with guard dogs and Garfield's thief alley cat Dad or something. I'd say only half of them even rely on characters from the movie and feel more just like someone else's take on a more long-ish form Garfield comic with each story being 12ish pages instead of the three or four panels of the newspaper comic.