GARFIELD FROM THE TRASH BIN

Another new arrival here is Garfield from the Trash Bin (128 8.5x11-inch pages, b/w; Ballantine paperback, $14), a round-up of “rescued rejects and outrageous out takes” from Jim Davis’ comic strip factory near Muncie, Indiana. “The book contains gross gags, crass cartoons, sick sketches, and truly tasteless trash” produced by Davis and his collaborators, Brett Koth, Gary Barker, and Scott Nickel with additional artistic support from Linda Duell and Kenny Goetzinger, while ostensibly engaged in the business of generating gags for the Garfield comic strip. Not all gags generated are publishable — especially under the ground rules imposed by Davis, who convenes monthly gag-writing sessions during which he and Koth (and probably others) brainstorm without inhibition whatever seems funny, which, as time and participants wear on, becomes more and more hysterical and less and less suitable for family consumption. The drawing herein is all of the sketch variety — pencils and some quick inks — and is without doubt the liveliest Garfield art you’ll ever see. Koth, who is one of the chief pencilers in this compilation, is a fugitive from animation, and his frenetically moving targets decorate and enhance every page they appear on. But all the art is loose and happy, a treat of vast and hilarious dimensions. This is not a reprint tome: it is a collection of never-before-seen-or-published cartoon art, without, for now, peer.

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