at the peak of the comic's popularity, there were children's books, plush animals (particularly of the characters roy, booker, sheldon, and orson), and posters of the main characters. its animated adaptation was included in the tv show "garfield and friends", and continued to be so for several years after the strip ended, which was even lampshaded in one of the final strips. the final daily strip was printed on april 15, 1989, while the final sunday appeared on may 7, 1989. most papers only ran the sunday strip, usually in the same page as "garfield".