Three books in one means three times the fun!

Lock up the lasagna, chain the chicken, and hold on to your funny bone. America's favorite cat is hungrier, funnier, lazier, grouchier, and more lovable than ever! Watch (and watch out!) as this champion heavyweight fights fleas, battles the Sludge Monster, falls head over tail in love, gets hijacked by a duck, visits a psychiatrist -- among other antics -- all in the name of laughs!

A few months after settling in to my new job as a Copy Assistant here at Ballantine Books, I got to dive into the fun stuff: writing cover copy. And not just any cover copy. My inaugural copy-writing assignment was the Garfield Fat Cat 3-Pack #8. I can't imagine a more pleasurable task! I combed through the hundreds of cartoons compiled for the book, laughing a lot as I looked for those classic tubby tabby moments that would translate well into copy for the back cover. After I had written the copy, my job got even better--I got to chose the funny cartoon frames that were to join the copy on the back cover to complete the package. When I told my friends what I was doing, no one could believe it: I was getting paid to read Garfield!! This collection remains one of my favorites.

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis, featuring the cat Garfield, the pet dog Odie, and their owner Jon Arbuckle. As of 2007, it is syndicated in roughly 2,570 newspapers and journals and it currently holds the Guinness World Record for being the world’s most widely syndicated comic strip. The popularity of the strip has led to an animated cartoon show, several animated television specials and two feature-length live-action films, as well as a large amount of Garfield merchandise.

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