Mondays, am I right? Pop culture’s most preeminent feline is returning in an all-new series from BOOM! Studios, featuring Garfield in his most formidable years. Baby Garfield is set to be released from the Penguin Random House-owned publisher this spring, featuring four separate issues by a variety of writers and artists.
Each issue will feature at least two stories from two different creative teams, with each story focusing on “Universal firsts” in the feline’s life. Baby Garfield #1 features a story looking at Garfield’s first word courtesy of writer Grace Ellis (Lumberjanes) and Asia Simone (Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur). The second story in the debut issue is all about Garfield’s first hairball, straight from the minds of Michael Northrop (Dear Justice League) and Rob Justus (Superman’s Good Guy Gang).
Other stories in the mini-series will feature talent including Ben Clanton (Narwhal and Jelly), Stephanie Cooke (The Racc Pack), Brittany Williams (Mixed-Up), Whitney Gardner (Free Piano), Jordan Morris (Youth Group), Olivia Amoah (Here Are The Seeds), and Kay Davault (Misfit Mansion).
Agnes Garbowska drew the cover for Baby Garfield #1 while Sil Brys colored it. Justus and Simone also provided variants for the series debut. The series is set to debut at your local comic shop on March 18, 2026.
The “Baby” version of Garfield is evocative of the Garfield seen in flashbacks in his most recent film adaptation, a CGI-animated movie simply called The Garfield Movie, which released in 2024. In it, they delved into Garfield’s backstory before he was adopted by Jon Arbuckle. It isn’t yet clear whether other characters who first appeared in that film will find their way into Baby Garfield stories from Boom!.
The Jim Davis creation is no stranger to sequential storytelling, having started as a syndicated comic strip in the later 1970’s. Davis sold the rights to Garfield and his supporting cast of characters to Viacom in 2019, a company now owned by Paramount Skydance.
