HOW TO GET A BOOK DEAL WITHOUT REALLY TRYING

The man who created the brilliant “Garfield Minus Garfield” website has now scored a book deal as the publishers of the original Garfield comics will publish a book version of the website with the full support of Garfield’s creator Jim Davis. In case you haven’t seen it yet, GarfieldMinusGarfield.net posts versions of the Garfield comic strips after stripping out the cat, creating a mildly disturbing (and often hilarious) comic about a lonely young man named Jon. According to the site’s creator Dan Walsh, stripping Garfield from the comic leaves an “even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life.” The blog has been a sensation since it was created last February and will be turned into a full color book and published alongside the 30th Anniversary Garfield collection “Thirty Years of Laughs and Lasagna: The Life and Times of a Fat, Furry Legend.”