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Garfield books

Garfield Eats and Runs by Jim Davis
ISBN: 9780425285725
Publication Date: 2018-05-15
For Garfield, eating is a full-contact sport. Boasting an Olympic-sized appetite, the famished feline dives into each meal with heart--and mouth--of a cahampion.
Garfield Original Graphic Novel: Search for Pooky by Jim Davis (Created by); Antonio Alfaro (Illustrator); Mark Evanier; Erin Hunting; Scott Nickel
Call Number: When Pooky goes missing, Garfield sets out to find who or what has snatched his prized teddy bear.
ISBN: 9781684151431
Publication Date: 2018-04-24
Garfield: Snack Pack Vol. 1 by Jim Davis (Created by); Scott Nickel; Mark Evanier; Antonio Alfaro (Illustrator); Lisa Moore (As told to)
ISBN: 9781684152483
Publication Date: 2018-10-09
Garfield, the lasagna-loving cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon have a series of adventures.
Garfield Feeds His Face by Jim Davis
ISBN: 9780425285671
Publication Date: 2017-12-12
His 64th book
Unfair Weather by Jim Davis; Dargaud Media Staff (Illustrator); Ellipsanime Staff (Illustrator); Cedric Michiels
ISBN: 9781597074339
Publication Date: 2013-07-16

Garfield

Garfield tells the story of Garfield the Cat and his day-to-day adventures with dog, Odie, and their owner, Jon Arbuckle. Follow Garfield as he hates Mondays, watches Jon try some silly home improvement, tricks Odie into doing something, hangs out with mice, and tries to find lasagna.

Visual and Textual Style: exaggerated drawings, anthropomorphic, minimal text

Potential readers/appeal factors: clumsy, any age, animal stories, dating stories, goofy behavior, humor

Awards

Guinness World Records named Garfield “The Most Widly Syndicated Comic Strip in the World”
National Cartoonist Society’s Best Humor strip in 1981 and 1985
Won the Elzie Segar Award in 1990
Won the Reuben Award in 1990
Davis was inducted into the Licensing Industry Merchandisers Association Hall of Fame in 1998
Davis had ten Emmy nominations and four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program

Other Pertinent Information

Garfield has been featured in live action movies put out by Twentieth Century Fox and at least three animated features for DVD
“The Garfield Show” came on Cartoon Network in 2009.

More Garfield

Garfield kart: furious racing by PlayStation 4
Publication Date: 2019
Join Garfield and his friends in the funniest racing game. Available roster includes fan favorite character like Garfield, Odie, Jon, Nermal and more. Hone advanced skills like skidding and finding hidden shortcuts in solo races, then battle against friends with funny weapons.
Garfield's Halloween adventure
ISBN: 9781531704988
Publication Date: 2018
It's time to trick-or-treat with Garfield! Garfield and Odie put on their pirate costumes to get as much Halloween candy as possible. After a successful night trick-or-treating, Garfield spots even more houses across the river! But once they get there, Garfield and Odie find themselves at a haunted house - where ghostly pirates are expected to arrive any minute.
The Garfield show
Publication Date: 2010-2014
Follow the witty and silly Garfield as he explores, digging for real dinosaur bones.

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