Garfield: Garfield Takes Up Space

Jim Davis

Jul 2012 · Garfield Issue #20 · Sold by Ballantine Group

About this ebook

Garfield's Got the Magic Touch

Garfield knows what matters in life—whether he's stealing Jon's dinner, performing for his favorite audience, or simply pondering the vastness of space. And he must be doing something right, because this is his twentieth book and he's still going strong. Live it up, Garfield, and take your millions of fans along for the ride!

Ratings and reviews

One of my childhood favorite Garfield compilation books. It's notable for containing the famous suspenseful 1989 Halloween week continuity sequence nicknamed & meme'd online as "Garfield Alone," and other names. That alone makes it worth owning for any Garfield fan.

Comics rules

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About the author

Jim Davis was born on July 28, 1945, in Marion, Indiana. He later attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, where he distinguished himself by earning one of the lowest cumulative grade point averages in the history of the university. The Garfield strip was born on June 19, 1978, syndicated in forty-one U.S. newspapers. Today it’s syndicated in more than 2,100 newspapers worldwide with more than 200 million readers, leading Guinness World Records to name Garfield The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World. Davis has had many successes with Garfield, including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program and induction into the Licensing Hall of Fame (1998), but his most prized awards are from his peers in the National Cartoonist Society: Best Humor Strip (1981 and 1985), the Elzie Segar Award (1990), and the coveted Reuben Award (1990) for overall excellence in cartooning.