Garfield's Guide to Everything

by Jim Davis

Overview

In Garfield’s Guide to Everything, the philosophizing fat cat weighs in on a whole kit and caboodle of subjects, from ecology to astrology, Shakespeare to stupidity.

Sleep — “The best 18 hours of my day”
Coffee — “Mother Nature’s Jumper Cables”
Dogs — “They contain 90% of the world’s drool supply.”
Love — “…is splitting the last piece of pizza.”
Exercise — “My favorite spectator sport.”
Mondays — “The armpit of days.”
Golf — “That’s Scottish for ‘AAARGH!’”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780345464613
Publisher:	Random House Worlds
Publication date:	10/26/2004
Series:	Garfield
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	192,364
Product dimensions:	8.01(w) x 7.98(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	10 - 13 Years

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.