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Funny Garfield Strip Art Up For Auction At Heritage Auctions

Published Sat, 16 Jan 2021 08:30:44 -0600

by Jeremy Konrad

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Garfield fans have a cool opportunity to own the complete artwork of one of the newspaper strips. On Auction over at Heritage Auctions, this strip is from June 13th, 1980. It features the pesky cat running to perform a stunt, only to have Odie step in and do it for him. The artwork looks to be in excellent condition as well, and the bidding currently sits at $575 with a few days left to get a bid in as of this writing. Garfield strips have been a bit more common in auctions these last couple of years, but rarely are they in as good of shape as this one. You can go ahead and check out this one down below.

Funny Garfield Strip Art Up For Auction At Heritage Auctions — Garfield Strip Art. Credit Heritage Auctions

Garfield Is Just So Special

Jim Davis Garfield Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 6-13-80 (United Feature Syndicate, 1980). Garfield is starring in his own action film, and as danger approaches… it's time for Odie, the stunt dog! This wild and wacky daily was produced in ink and Zipatone over blue pencil on Bristol board, with an image area of 14" x 4". Aside from some yellowing to the Zipatone and toning to the board, it's in Excellent condition.
From the Jim Davis Collection.

This Garfield strip is on auction currently over at Heritage Auctions right now. If you are so inclined to add this original art strip to your collection, you can bid on the piece by clicking right here. While you are checking out the details, you can also click around a little bit and see all of the other items they are taking bids for right now. All sorts of great stuff are available, from artwork to comic keys, graded stuff, raw, and everything in between, and a lot of it at really great prices right now.