Editing Garfield (section)

===Books===
Starting in 1980, the comic strip has been collected in anthologies. The first, ''[[Garfield at Large]]'', was published in March 1980 by [[Ballantine Books]]. These books helped increase the strip's popularity through sales, leading to several of them reaching the top of the ''[[New York Times]]'' best sellers list.<ref name="pauer">{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/407039982/ | title=The nine lives of Jim Davis | work=Dayton Daily News | date=June 19, 1988 | accessdate=January 8, 2023 | author=Frank Pauer | pages=6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 17}}</ref> For these compilation books, Davis devised a book layout which is considerably longer and less tall than the average book. This allowed the strip to be oriented in the same format as it appeared in the newspaper, as opposed to earlier comic strip anthologies which often stacked the panels vertically.<ref name="pauer"/> This book style has since been referred to in the publishing industry as the "Garfield format" and has been adapted by other publishers. Davis noted that it became popular for other comic strip anthologies in particular, such as those of ''[[The Far Side]]''.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/216476886/ | title=Happy birthday, Garfield: Celebrated cartoon character marks 10th year of cat naps, lasagna | work=The Town Talk | date=June 20, 1988 | accessdate=January 8, 2023 | author=Jim Smillie | pages=C1, C2}}</ref>