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Garfield #49
Garfield Weighs His Options
The perfect holiday gift for fans of the tubby tabby!
TO EAT, OR NOT TO EAT?
That's a stupid question! The fat cat was born to binge, and while some might call it gluttony, Garfield prefers to think of it as eating proactively. Besides, someone needs to keep the surplus donut population under control. In this hilarious collection of comics, the heavyweight of humor tips the scales with a veritable metric ton of laughs.
TO EAT, OR NOT TO EAT?
That's a stupid question! The fat cat was born to binge, and while some might call it gluttony, Garfield prefers to think of it as eating proactively. Besides, someone needs to keep the surplus donut population under control. In this hilarious collection of comics, the heavyweight of humor tips the scales with a veritable metric ton of laughs.
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2010
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About the author
Jim Davis
2,359 books634 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 8, 2010
I will never get used to Jon having a cell phone. But I guess things have change din the last 20 years :)
I read Garfield as a kid. Now I read them out loud, though my 1st grader can pretty much read them himself. And he does. And he laughs and laughs.
I read Garfield as a kid. Now I read them out loud, though my 1st grader can pretty much read them himself. And he does. And he laughs and laughs.
July 22, 2022
I really enjoy these Garfield comic strip books. Most of the comics are funny and there is always a wide range of them. They group similar comics together though so there was like five pages in a row where the last panel of all the three panel comic strips was Garfield saying “we’re bachelors baby.” It was kind of redundant. The first couple were funny and the others probably would have been more funny if they’d been better dispersed but when you read the same thing or extremely similar things over and over again it just doesn’t seem as funny. Overall though I enjoyed the book.
July 7, 2025
As the 4th book in my HRCYED challenge, I read Garfield Weighs... for my Make a Quote Challenge. While not my favorite Garfield book, I did have a good time reading it. It had been more than 10 years since I last read a Garfield comic and this was a fun throwback to my childhood. Not sure if I would want to read this many at once again, but have 2-3 at a time is amazing.
April 10, 2021
Another entry in the series I found in the public library. This part of the series is still in the early days when Jon started dating Liz. A highlight of the book is a small series of Garfield and Jon showing bachelor humor. An amusing entry in the series. 3 out of 5 stars.
September 1, 2018
Jon's got a girlfriend. Jon's got a girlfriend.
August 29, 2024
Good Times!
Options never seem to run out for the fat cat and his cohorts. Best part is it all seems funny and new.
Options never seem to run out for the fat cat and his cohorts. Best part is it all seems funny and new.
September 6, 2025
Jon and Liz are adorable. I loved the one where Garfield said Jon couldn't have her because he wanted her. 🤣 The mice ones are always hilarious.
April 6, 2012
I remember getting the Garfield books as Christmas and birthday presents as a child and laughing like crazy at the antics of this crazy cat and his friends. Our girls have also discovered this lasagna-loving feline and our oldest has been borrowing some of the more recent books from her elementary school library.
Our girls love Garfield almost as much as I did and our youngest even grabbed one of my old Garfield stuffed animals to read the book with her. I am not sure how much of the humor goes over their heads, but I suspect that it's fairly appropriate for their age level and they often giggle at the fat cat's antics.
I am afraid that I'm not quite as amused by the strip as I once was. Perhaps the storylines have been played out a bit too much after all these years? But it certainly gave me a couple of chuckles and a good dose of nostalgia.
Our girls love Garfield almost as much as I did and our youngest even grabbed one of my old Garfield stuffed animals to read the book with her. I am not sure how much of the humor goes over their heads, but I suspect that it's fairly appropriate for their age level and they often giggle at the fat cat's antics.
I am afraid that I'm not quite as amused by the strip as I once was. Perhaps the storylines have been played out a bit too much after all these years? But it certainly gave me a couple of chuckles and a good dose of nostalgia.
October 13, 2015
This story talks about a cat that eats people food not cat food.One day His owner left and forgot to leave him food so Garfield ate all the food in the refrigerator. When the owner got back he didn't ate a thing becouse of Garfield.So The cat will had to be in a diet and he couldent resist by not eating food so the owner took him to the vetenarian and so he had to live in a diet like no eating ice cream or pizza and also tacos.
August 5, 2016
It's the 49th Garfield book. I could almost just stop the review right there.
About half of the strips are just lesser variations of jokes that Jim Davis has drawn time and time again. It gets three stars instead of two from me because the strips that deal with Jon and Liz's relationship are surprisingly warm and funny, and some of the crustiest old jokes don't make an appearance. (I could be wrong, but I don't think there's anything in here about Garfield hating Mondays, or loving lasagna.)
About half of the strips are just lesser variations of jokes that Jim Davis has drawn time and time again. It gets three stars instead of two from me because the strips that deal with Jon and Liz's relationship are surprisingly warm and funny, and some of the crustiest old jokes don't make an appearance. (I could be wrong, but I don't think there's anything in here about Garfield hating Mondays, or loving lasagna.)
May 11, 2010
Garfield gets bored.
August 29, 2010
I just adore Garfield so I borrowed like 6 of his books from the library and this was 1 of them
November 22, 2010
GARFIELD ISN'T ,Y FAVE, BUT THE COMIC WAS OK THOUGH I THOUGHT THAT THE JOKES WERE BORING... BUT IT IS A GOOD BOOK.
April 25, 2011
An awesome comic that I picked up at the public library!
July 13, 2015
Love it
One of my fave... I use to have almost all the Garfield books ... so yea...Love it.... slowly building up my collection.
One of my fave... I use to have almost all the Garfield books ... so yea...Love it.... slowly building up my collection.
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