Garfield at Large: His First Book (Davis, Jim. Garfield Classics.) 
asked by perfectstorm on October 30, 2006 4:40 AM
Like every great lasagna, Garfield was born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant on a winter's night in 1978, while outside snow fell like gratd Parmesan cheese. He weighed five pounds, six ounces at birth--that's big for a kitten!--and right from the start showed a passion for Italian food. the restaurant owner, forced to choose between Garfield and closing his doors for lack of pasta, sold Garfield to a pet store. Garfield thought he was a goner until Jon Arbuckle walked in the door.
The rest is history.
The rest is history.
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This book:
Well, Paws decided to colourize the weekday strips for these new compilations and they look nice. I would have preferred it if they simply left them in black and white and had the Sunday strips in colour, though. The Sunday strips are the same as you would have seen in the newspaper or the "Garfield Treasuries". Except, the colour scheme is modified slightly (not a big deal) and they added the title block (the title "GARFIELD" rising out of the background, with Garfield lying down in front of it) which didn't exist until the early 1980s!
The later collections:
The problem is with the later collections. I noticed that some of these new colour collections which come after "Garfield at Large" have the funny front pages and end pages from the original collections moved around or missing entirely. This may have been a printing mistake, though.
Here is the big problem. The original black and white collections up to and including the sixteenth were missing the title and drop block from the Sunday strips. That is, the title block and the very first block of the strip. This didn't matter for the first few years as these didn't exist. A few years later, the title block mentioned in my first paragraph was introduced and the drop block simply showcased the four major characters, Garfield, Odie, Jon and Lyman. A little later, unique title blocks and drop blocks related to the strip's story were created.
Unfortunately, the new colour collections have the drop block REMOVED in the later collections, yet the unique title block is included. So the strips aren't complete, if you want to read the complete strips, I guess you have to visit the Garfield website.
Still, for the price, it's a great value. The books are printed on high quality paper as usual. Even the new colour "Fat Cat 3-Packs" are printed in higher quality paper instead of that awful "mass market paperback" paper they used to use for the older ones.
Well, Paws decided to colourize the weekday strips for these new compilations and they look nice. I would have preferred it if they simply left them in black and white and had the Sunday strips in colour, though. The Sunday strips are the same as you would have seen in the newspaper or the "Garfield Treasuries". Except, the colour scheme is modified slightly (not a big deal) and they added the title block (the title "GARFIELD" rising out of the background, with Garfield lying down in front of it) which didn't exist until the early 1980s!
The later collections:
The problem is with the later collections. I noticed that some of these new colour collections which come after "Garfield at Large" have the funny front pages and end pages from the original collections moved around or missing entirely. This may have been a printing mistake, though.
Here is the big problem. The original black and white collections up to and including the sixteenth were missing the title and drop block from the Sunday strips. That is, the title block and the very first block of the strip. This didn't matter for the first few years as these didn't exist. A few years later, the title block mentioned in my first paragraph was introduced and the drop block simply showcased the four major characters, Garfield, Odie, Jon and Lyman. A little later, unique title blocks and drop blocks related to the strip's story were created.
Unfortunately, the new colour collections have the drop block REMOVED in the later collections, yet the unique title block is included. So the strips aren't complete, if you want to read the complete strips, I guess you have to visit the Garfield website.
Still, for the price, it's a great value. The books are printed on high quality paper as usual. Even the new colour "Fat Cat 3-Packs" are printed in higher quality paper instead of that awful "mass market paperback" paper they used to use for the older ones.
reviewed by glassysurf on October 31, 2006 8:33 PM
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Garfield is a very lazy cute lovable cat that everyone adores. He sits around all day, eats lasagna, sleeps all day, and buggs the crap out of Oddie. He hates any attention. He likes to physically abuse Nermal, and no matter how much he tries he can't make him not cute and loveable.
In this book Garfield tries to do the impossible, LOSE WEIGHT!!! Garfield runs and hides when ANY ONE brings up the word diet. Garfield runs and hides when ANY ONE brings up the word diet. Garfield can be such an idiot (most of the time)!
I like this book because I love to see Garfield do funny things, because I love him SO MUCH!!DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
In this book Garfield tries to do the impossible, LOSE WEIGHT!!! Garfield runs and hides when ANY ONE brings up the word diet. Garfield runs and hides when ANY ONE brings up the word diet. Garfield can be such an idiot (most of the time)!
I like this book because I love to see Garfield do funny things, because I love him SO MUCH!!DONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
reviewed by 78704 on November 16, 2006 12:12 AM
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Now, as you can see in this panel, Garfield doesn't like Nermal! But like him or not, Nermal's here to stay! Or is he?! Let's find out.
reviewed by aries on November 23, 2006 2:27 AM
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In 2001 i had no idea that Garfield existed, but I found out when the movie was made and the book is superb!
reviewed by webin on November 29, 2006 12:42 AM