Garfield Vol. 9: His Nine Lives

Garfield (2012) #33-36

by Scott Nickel, Jim Davis (Creator)

This is one of multiple covers for ISBN 9781608868476

Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Jim Davis' Garfield: His 9 Lives!

In 1984, Jim Davis created a groundbreaking series of illustrated short stories called Garfield: His 9 Lives, setting the Fat Cat in various eras, that became an instant classic, both as a book, and an acclaimed animated special. Now, join an all-star cast of cartoonists, including Andy Hirsch (Baker Street Peculiars), David DeGrand, Roger Langridge (Snarked), Brittney Williams (Goldie Vance), Frazer Irving, and Genevieve FT, as they depict Garfield through the ages, from prehistoric times, to the reaches of outer space, updating a modern classic for a new generation.

Genres: Fiction, Animals, Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Fantasy, Comedy

112 pages, Paperback

Published October 4, 2016

About the author

Growing up, Scott Nickel wanted to be a comic book writer or a mad scientist. As an adult, he gets to do both. In his secret literary lab, Scott has created more than a dozen graphic novels for Stone Arch Books featuring time travel, zombies, robots, giant insects, and mutant lunch ladies. Scott's NIGHT OF THE HOMEWORK ZOMBIES received the 2007 Golden Duck award for Best Science Fiction Picture Book.

When not creating crazy comics, Scott squeezes in a full-time job as a writer and editor at Jim Davis' Garfield studio.

Check out Scott’s monstrously funny syndicated comic strip, EEK!, at Go Comics: http://www.gocomics.com/eek/

Reviews

[Ed Erwin · Rating 2 out of 5]

For kids, but I needed a break from my heavy reading!

Brief descriptions of Garfield's past lives. Most are uninteresting and unimaginative. In all eras he loved sleeping and lasagna and hated Mondays and Nermal. Gets better in the episode where he lived as detective "Sam Spayed", and the one where he was used in laboratory testing. (That one has art and theme that may frighten children.)

[Peacegal · Rating 3 out of 5]

I remember watching the TV special as a kid in the '80s and recall it was rather dark. The first part of this book was very cartoony--agreeable stuff for the elementary school set, but I was hoping this remake wouldn't totally sanitize the original.
Then I got to the "Sam Spayed" detective comic and was blown away! The second half of the book showed that some creativity and great ideas can be wrung out of this very familiar property yet!

[oliver duggan · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Brad · Rating 1 out of 5]

Missing all the creativity of the original Garfield: His 9 Lives. While this newer collection offers possibly a wider variety of visual styles, it completely lacks in variety of content: insert lasagna joke here, insert Monday joke there. A real snooze.

[Nikki · Rating 1 out of 5]

I did not enjoy this book. The concept wasn’t so bad but I did not think it was done well. Most of the stories felt too short for what they were trying to get across and felt like they ended abruptly. The one story where Garfield was a lab cat was not appropriate for kids which is typically who you would think would be interested in Garfield. Overall I just did not enjoy this book and I do not recommend it.

[Derrick McDonald · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had like 20 or 30 Garfield books but his one was the best. It changed my outlook, understanding, and perspective of what I thought I knew about the character and the approach to the whole Garfield universe. It was like that moment from "The Matrix", where Morpheus is trying to free Neo's mind when he asks if he thinks he is really breathing air. My canvas became my own. Please, read it.

[Mouse · Rating 3 out of 5]

Mostly hit or miss 'Elseworld' type Garfield stories. The first half is kind of a snoozer, but the second half picks up and has some really interesting stories with different art in each one. It's sort of a fresh artsy and interesting look at Garfield!

[CR · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book.

Funny with amazing illustrations as usual. I'd recommend it to anyone who liked the previous Garfield books in the series.

[250301 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Its a great book

[Magenta · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars, not as good as the 1984 edition or movie

[Stephen Chase · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better safe than sorry!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Leo Leid · Rating 5 out of 5]

HAPPY

It was a good book I love it. It was the best book I ever read. It was the best book it was the best book I ever read.

[MV Lock · Rating 1 out of 5]

Not like the usual Garfield

I disliked the nine lives theme. I would prefer the original comics.
The other words are just for the twenty words required

[Medha · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very very creative idea, very fun read. Pretty long though, too many lives to get to LOL. Liked some of the art styles, but not the second and third to last ones.

[Erin · Rating 4 out of 5]

Dismiss

Me like all me hate noon. Is nice .. .. . . . . . . .. . . . .

[Mikael Hasan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Seeing Garfield in these different roles is fun and it makes for a nice change of pace. The basic character though stays the same. He is still that fat, lazy and fun loving cat.