Garfield #4
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeGarfield #4 (November 2024) closes out the first comic-book limited series set in the continuity of Alcon Entertainment's 2024 animated film, making the entire four-issue run — capped by this finale — the first sequential comics work to canonically extend the movie's storyline rather than simply adapt Jim Davis's original strip. Each issue in the run, including this final chapter, features the movie-specific character designs rather than the long-familiar newspaper-strip look, marking a deliberate creative fork in how Garfield appears on the printed page. As the bookend of that experiment, #4 also carries the last in-series appearances of film-originated characters like Vic within this particular comic continuity. The run, under Boom!'s all-ages KaBOOM! imprint, demonstrated that the 46-year-old property could attract a fresh roster of indie and YA-adjacent talent to produce original anthology stories aimed squarely at younger readers discovering the cat through cinema.
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Boom! Studios launched this four-issue series in August 2024 as a deliberate media tie-in to The Garfield Movie, Alcon Entertainment's CGI-animated film distributed by Sony Pictures that May. Writers Ryan Estrada and Sarah Graley — both known for all-ages and YA comics work — anchored the series alongside artist Axur Eneas and letterer Stef Purenins, with each issue presenting two self-contained short stories in an anthology format. Issue #4 shipped November 20, 2024, roughly six months after the film's theatrical debut, rounding out a monthly publishing cadence that began with #1 on August 7, 2024. The series represents a second distinct wave of Garfield comics from KaBOOM!, separate from the long-running anthology series that preceded it.
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- Garfield #4 is the concluding issue of a four-part limited series published by Boom! Studios under its KaBOOM! all-ages imprint, released November 20, 2024.
- The issue features two self-contained anthology short stories; published descriptions confirm the issue's content involves Garfield facing arachnophobia and nightmare-fueled food quests, while Odie pursues his own comedic adventures including late-night baking.
- The series was conceived as a tie-in to Alcon Entertainment's The Garfield Movie (May 2024, distributed by Sony Pictures), starring Chris Pratt as Garfield and Samuel L. Jackson as Vic, Garfield's father — a brand-new character created for the film.
- Vic (full name Victor), the large tomcat and Garfield's estranged father introduced in the 2024 film, appears in Garfield #4 — one of three comic-book appearances the character makes across the entire limited run (issues #2–#4).
- The creative team across the series includes writers Ryan Estrada (I Climbed Kilimanjaro) and Sarah Graley (Kim Reaper, Minecraft), artist Axur Eneas (Princeless), and letterer Stef Purenins (Our Super Adventure).
- The 2024 series deliberately adopts character designs modeled on the animated film rather than the classic Jim Davis newspaper-strip aesthetic — a notable visual departure from all previous Boom! Studios Garfield print comics.
- Cover variants for #4 include a main cover by J.J. Harrison, a Cover B by Jay Stephens, a 1:5 retailer-incentive J.J. Harrison Virgin Variant, and a 1:10 Cocochoon Virgin Variant.
- The entire four-issue run is collected in the trade paperback Garfield: Family Style (ISBN 9798892153485), published by Boom! Studios.
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