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Jim Davis' sardonic tabby cat Garfield is about to begin a new era, with a new series flashing back to his early days as a kitten. And with a new time period comes a very different look...
Baby Garfield Is Heading Back to the Character's Origin
Coming March 18 from BOOM! Studios, Baby Garfield is a four-issue anthology series, depicting early events like Garfield's first hairball and first word (which is sure to be "lasagna.")
The first issue will include two stories, with the creative duos of Grace Ellis & Asia Simone and Michael Northrop and Rob Justus. These stories will de-age Garfield, adopting a 'Baby Garfield' kitten design with gigantic eyes and a scruffy tuft of hair.
Over almost five decades, Davis' original comic strip has filled in Garfield's history, including his birth in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant - hence his love for lasagna as a lifelong favorite. However, Baby Garfield will zero in on previously unseen key moments in the kitten's life and his relationship with Jon Arbuckle.
This Is the Latest in a Long Line of Garfield Reinventions
While Baby Garfield presents an awesome design for Garfield - used in covers by Agnes Garbowska, Rob Justus and Asia Simone - it's far from the first time Garfield's design has changed.
Garfield has utterly transformed over the decades, starting out as a far more feline character. Garfield's evolution is full of awesome stories, including Peanuts' Charles Schulz sketching a new design as a favor to Jim Davis, helping the character adopt a new two-legged form using the knowledge he'd gained from reworking Snoopy over the years.
Similarly, Garfield's eyes got permanently bigger thanks to a paper shortage. With newspapers printing his comics far smaller to make the most of page space, Davis made Garfield's face a bigger part of the design so that readers (especially older readers) could still register his expressions.
Baby Garfield pushes that logic to the extreme, transforming Garfield into an adorable kitten by dedicating about a third of his body mass to his eyes. Fans can enjoy the new series coming soon, and enjoy adventures from the early years of Garfield's life, back before he'd learned to despise Mondays.
Baby Garfield #1 is coming March 18 from BOOM! Studios.
Created by Jim Davis
First Film Garfield: The Movie
Latest Film The Garfield Movie
First TV Show Garfield and Friends
Latest TV Show Garfield Originals
First Episode Air Date September 17, 1988
The Garfield franchise centers around the lazy, lasagna-loving orange cat named Garfield, who spends his days avoiding work, eating, and making sarcastic comments about life. Created by Jim Davis, Garfield's humorous observations on human (and feline) nature have been a staple of pop culture since the comic strip's debut in 1978. The franchise has expanded into television shows, films, and a variety of merchandise, making Garfield one of the most recognizable and enduring characters in comic history.
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