Garfield Minus Garfield on Your Bookshelf

Dan Walsh's webcomic, Garfield Minus Garfield, is about to be collected in print. And Garfield creator Jim Davis has not only given his blessing - he's allowing the book to contain the original Garfield strips side-by-side with the G-G strips they inspired.

The webcomic, which has only been around since February 2008, quickly developed a large Internet following and made a fan out of Davis himself:

“I think it’s an inspired thing to do,” Davis said in an April interview. “I want to thank Dan for enabling me to see another side of Garfield. Some of the strips he chose were slappers: ‘Oh, I could have left that out.’ It would have been funnier.”

Walsh, of Dublin, Ireland, creates G-G by taking the original Garfield strips and removing all of the characters except Jon. What's left are the daily exploits of a lonely, isolated bachelor whose absurd behavior hilariously reveals a desperate longing for human interaction.

The book will be published by Ballantine Books and will be released simultaneously with a Garfield 30th Anniversary book arriving in stores this fall.

To read the official press release, click here.

Garfield Minus Garfield - July 23rd, 2008:

The original Garfield strip - March 6th, 1989: