Garfield Media and Merchandise - Garfield Merchandise, Pet Force, Am I Cool or What?, Garfield at Large: His First Book, Professor Garfield (Paperback)

Chapters: Garfield Merchandise, Pet Force, Am I Cool or What?, Garfield at Large: His First Book, Professor Garfield. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 37. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jim Davis' famous Garfield comic strip has generated a large amount of merchandise. This article compiles just some of these items. In the books, there a numerous 'extras' at the front and/or back. For example, in the 10th Birthday book, the beginning has an extract of a newspaper, stating "JIM DAVIS A FRAUD," with Pooky revealing Garfield has in fact been writing the strips. Garfield states "I hired some hackneyed down-and-out to take the credit." There was also a bonus strip to fill in the book Garfield Gains Weight, which features a single panel with Garfield holding his face down in front of the TV. These books, generally released twice a year by Ballantine Books, contain reprints of the comic as it appears in newspapers daily. These books were originally printed in black and white, but volumes 37 and later have been in full color. Each book collects approximately six months of comics, including the larger weekend comics (in black and white in all except the recent editions). The titles of these books were styled as double entendres alluding to Garfields weight (Note: an extra at the end of a Garfield compilation advertised rejected book titles). These books introduced the Garfield format in publishing, whereby the rectangular books are horizontally oriented to match comic strip dimensions; Davis has recalled having to invent the format in order to better fit the books on store shelves. Volumes 37 and later introduced a new, larger square book in full color, showing the Sunday strips to be formatted in a size as they usually are, instead of shrunken-down to meet the book size. However, this ...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=15974144