He felt that dogs were doing well, but noticed no prominent cats. Davis had tried to syndicate the strip, but was unsuccessful he noted that one editor told him that his 'art was good, his gags were great, nobody can identify with bugs.' Davis decided to peruse current comic strips to determine what species of animal characters might be more popular. Ryan's Tumbleweeds, he created the comic strip Gnorm Gnat, which ran only in the Pendleton Times of Pendleton, Indiana, from 1973 to 1975 and met with little success. In 1973, while working as an assistant for T.K. History Cartoonist Jim Davis is the creator of Garfield.Ĭartoonist Jim Davis was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana. Jim Davis continues to make comics, and a new Garfield animated series is in production for Paramount Global subsidiary Nickelodeon. The deal did not include the rights to the live-action Garfield films, which are still owned by The Walt Disney Company through its 20th Century Studios label, as well as the upcoming animated Garfield film which is set for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures under its Columbia Pictures label, except in China, scheduled for 2024. On August 6, 2019, before its merger with CBS Corporation to become ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global), New York City–based Viacom announced that it would acquire Paws, Inc., including most rights to the Garfield franchise (the comics, merchandise and animated cartoons). The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but other recurring characters appear as well. Garfield is also shown to manipulate people to get whatever he wants. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, love of coffee and lasagna, disdain of Mondays, and diets. Though its setting is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield takes place in Jim Davis's hometown of Muncie, Indiana, according to the television special Happy Birthday, Garfield. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Jon (1976–1977) and Garfield (1977–1978), locally published strips in the Pendleton Times-Post Random House (under Ballantine Books), occasionally Andrews McMeel Publishing Universal Press Syndicate/ Universal Uclick/ Andrews McMeel Syndication (1994–present) Clockwise from bottom left: Nermal, Odie, Arlene, and Pooky

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