GARFIELD MINUS GARFIELD

Now it’s a whole book: Garfield Minus Garfield (Ballantine Books, 128 pages; $12) — Dan Walsh’s internet version of the famed Jim Davis strip which he cast into surreal limbo by removing the cat from the strips, leaving only hapless Jon, whose monologue is now a soliloquy, full of meaningless and existential angst. Davis, who thought Walsh’s insight was very funny, approved the project.