"appeared in newspapers on November 11, 2010. In the strip, a spider who is about to be squashed by Garfield boasts that if he is squished, he will get a holiday in his remembrance. The next panel shows a classroom of spiders in which a teacher asks the students why spiders celebrate ""National Stupid Day,"" implying that the spider was squished. Davis quickly apologized for the poorly timed comic strip, saying that it had been written a year in advance and that both his brother and son were veterans. Garfield Garfield is a comic created by Jim Davis. Published since"
"Jim Davis (cartoonist) James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strips ""Garfield"" and ""U.S. Acres"" (a.k.a. ""Orson's Farm""). Published since 1978, ""Garfield"" is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes ""Tumbleweeds"", ""Gnorm Gnat"" and ""Mr. Potato Head"". Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the ""Garfield"" TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced the ""Garfield & Friends"" Saturday Morning series, which aired on the channel from 1988 to 1994. Davis was the writer and executive producer"
"21, 2010, and resumed publishing on April 25, 2012. Unlike Walsh's version, it also includes the original ""Garfield"" strip underneath. Garfield Minus Garfield Garfield Minus Garfield (also known as Jon Arbuckle) is a webcomic created by Dan Walsh, a technology manager from Dublin, Ireland, which received considerable attention during 2008. Each strip consists of a reprint of a past episode from the comic strip ""Garfield"", from which all the characters except Garfield's owner Jon Arbuckle have been removed through photo manipulation. Though Walsh admits that he was not the first to come up with this idea, he was the first"
"Garfield Minus Garfield Garfield Minus Garfield (also known as Jon Arbuckle) is a webcomic created by Dan Walsh, a technology manager from Dublin, Ireland, which received considerable attention during 2008. Each strip consists of a reprint of a past episode from the comic strip ""Garfield"", from which all the characters except Garfield's owner Jon Arbuckle have been removed through photo manipulation. Though Walsh admits that he was not the first to come up with this idea, he was the first to ""champion and popularize"" it. Paws, Inc. publishes an identically named and themed strip on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Without"
"rough sketches. Since the late 1990s most of the work has been done by long-time assistants Brett Koth and Gary Barker. Inking and coloring work is done by other artists, while Davis spends most of the time supervising production and merchandising the characters. ""Garfield"" was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a ""good, marketable character"". Now the world's most syndicated comic strip, ""Garfield"" has spawned a ""profusion"" of merchandise including clothing, toys, games, books, Caribbean cruises, credit cards, dolls, DVDs of the movies or the TV series, and related media. Garfield.com is the strip's official"
"comic strip syndicate, an editor told him: ""Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs—nobody can relate to bugs!"" On June 19, 1978, ""Garfield"" started syndication in 41 newspapers. Today it is syndicated in 2,580 newspapers and is read by approximately 300 million readers every day. In the 1980s, Davis created the barnyard slapstick comic strip ""U.S. Acres"". Outside the U.S., the strip was known as ""Orson's Farm"". Davis, along with Brett Koth, also made a 2000–03 strip based on the Mr. Potato Head toy. Davis founded the Professor Garfield Foundation to support children's literacy. His influences include"
"Mort Walker's ""Beetle Bailey"" and ""Hi and Lois"", Charles M. Schulz's ""Peanuts"", Milton Caniff's ""Steve Canyon"" and Johnny Hart's ""B.C"". Jim Davis (cartoonist) James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strips ""Garfield"" and ""U.S. Acres"" (a.k.a. ""Orson's Farm""). Published since 1978, ""Garfield"" is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes ""Tumbleweeds"", ""Gnorm Gnat"" and ""Mr. Potato Head"". Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the ""Garfield"" TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced the ""Garfield &"
"the presence of Garfield, the resulting strips consist mostly of Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, interacting with himself, rather than with his pet cat. The strip's website characterizes this result as ""a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness and depression in a quiet American suburb."" ""Garfield"" creator and artist Jim Davis has commented on the webcomic, stating that he is an occasional reader and finds it ""fascinating"" and an ""inspired thing to do"". Some spinoffs of the concept have also been created, such as a Garfield Minus Jon Tumblr"
"is wearing a bathing suit. U.S. Acres U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States and as Orson's Place in Canada) is a comic strip that originally ran from 1986 to 1989, created by Jim Davis, author of the comic strip ""Garfield"". ""U.S. Acres"" was launched on March 3, 1986 in a then-unprecedented 505 newspapers by United Feature Syndicate. For most of the last year of the strip's existence, Brett Koth, who had been assisting Davis on ""Garfield"" at that time, was given co-creator's credit in the strip, and signed his name to the strips along with Davis."
"was appearing in more than 1,000 newspapers. By 2002, ""Garfield"" became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2,570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide; by 2004, ""Garfield"" appeared in nearly 2,600 newspapers and sold from $750 million to $1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries. In 1994, Davis's company, Paws, Inc., purchased all rights to the strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature. The strip is currently distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, while rights for the strip remain with Paws. While retaining creative control and being the only signer, Davis now only writes and usually does the"
"U.S. Acres U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States and as Orson's Place in Canada) is a comic strip that originally ran from 1986 to 1989, created by Jim Davis, author of the comic strip ""Garfield"". ""U.S. Acres"" was launched on March 3, 1986 in a then-unprecedented 505 newspapers by United Feature Syndicate. For most of the last year of the strip's existence, Brett Koth, who had been assisting Davis on ""Garfield"" at that time, was given co-creator's credit in the strip, and signed his name to the strips along with Davis. The strip was centered on"
"Garfield and Friends Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the comic strip ""Garfield"" by Jim Davis. The show was produced by Film Roman, in association with United Media in Season 1, United Media/Mendelson in season 2 and 3, United Media/Lee Mendelson Productions in season 4–6, Lee Mendelson Productions in Season 7, and Paws, Inc., and ran on CBS Saturday mornings from September 17, 1988 to December 10, 1994, with reruns airing until October 7, 1995. Seven seasons of the series were produced. In addition to the cartoons featuring Garfield, the series also included cartoons featuring"
"where he and his staff produce ""Garfield"" under his Paws, Inc. company, launched in 1981. Paws, Inc. employs nearly 50 artists and licensing administrators, who work with agents around the world managing Garfield's vast licensing, syndication, and entertainment empire. Davis is a former president of the Fairmount, Indiana FFA chapter. Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for an advertising agency, and in 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan's comic strip, ""Tumbleweeds"". He then created a comic strip, ""Gnorm Gnat"", that ran for five years in ""The Pendleton Times"", an Indiana newspaper. When Davis attempted to sell it to a national"
"Jon Arbuckle Jon Arbuckle is a fictional character from the ""Garfield"" comic strip by Jim Davis. He has also appeared in the animated television series ""Garfield and Friends"", the computer-animated ""The Garfield Show"", and two live-action/computer-animated feature films. A geeky and clumsy man yet caring owner, Jon is the owner of Garfield and Odie. He converses with Garfield and is often the butt of his jokes. Jon's birthday is July 28, as Jon told Garfield that he was 29 years old (he would have been 30 but he was sick a year) in a December 23, 1980 strip. However, in"
"Garfield television specials The Garfield television specials are a series of half-hour long American animated television specials based on the ""Garfield"" comic strip, created by Jim Davis. The specials were produced between 1982 and 1991, all directed by Phil Roman, written by Jim Davis and originally broadcast on CBS. While the first two specials were produced by Lee Mendelson Films, this boutique studio was fully committed to the production of the and could not allocate resources for the ""Garfield"" specials. All subsequent specials were produced by director Roman's production company Film Roman. All the animated specials received Primetime Emmy Award"
"Garfield merchandise Jim Davis's comic strip ""Garfield"" has generated a large amount of merchandise. The following is a compiled list of selected merchandise based on ""Garfield"". In the books, there are numerous 'extras' at the front and/or back. For example, in the 10th Birthday book, the beginning has an extract of a newspaper, stating ""JIM DAVIS A FRAUD"", with Pooky revealing Garfield has in fact been writing the strips. Garfield states ""I hired some down-and-out hack cartoonist to take all the credit."" denying several criticisms, which accused Davis was actually using ghostwriters, and not working on the strip at all."
"Garfield At Large: His First Book Garfield at Large: His First Book is the first compilation book of Garfield comic strips. The book was originally published by Ballantine Books in the United States in 1980 and the strips date from June 19, 1978 to January 22, 1979. This book introduced the ""Garfield Format"" to the comic book market. Prior to its publication, comic strip compilations were most commonly formatted like a standard paperback book with the panels running down the page. Jim Davis, Garfield's author, disliked the idea and convinced Ballantine to print the strips from left to right, as"
"Happy Birthday, Garfield Happy Birthday, Garfield is an hour-long television special dedicated to the tenth anniversary of the ""Garfield"" comic strip, hosted by its creator Jim Davis. The special was first broadcast May 17, 1988 on CBS. It has only been released on VHS home video. The program featured the people behind the strips and animated adaptations, a very brief animated short made in 1980 (two years before ""Here Comes Garfield"") by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson (more known for their ""Peanuts"" specials) featuring jokes from the strips of June 21 and August 2, 1978 and July 7, 1979, a"
"Spy"", ""Barney Google and Snuffy Smith"", and ""Ginger Meggs"". Now-defunct strips that were zombies for a time before being discontinued include ""Terry and the Pirates"", ""Little Orphan Annie"", and ""Brenda Starr"". Lying somewhere in a gray area are strips that still have an association with their original author but receive significant assistance from others. The most widely known example of this is the widely syndicated ""Garfield,"" which was created and is still managed by Jim Davis but is currently written and drawn by the large staff of Davis's corporation, Paws, Inc. Another example are the multi-generational strips, such as ""B.C."","
"Garfield's Halloween Adventure Garfield's Halloween Adventure (originally titled Garfield in Disguise) is a 1985 American animated television special based on the ""Garfield"" comic strip. It is directed by Phil Roman and written by ""Garfield"" creator Jim Davis, and features the voices of Lorenzo Music, Thom Huge, Gregg Berger and C. Lindsay Workman. The special, a ghost story with a pirate theme, originally aired near Halloween and afterwards often played around the time of the holiday. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and was also the subject of an illustrated children's book adaptation. Garfield is awakened early"
"a comic strip that ""compares managers to drunken lemurs"". Adams later said that fans should stick to posting ""Garfield"" strips, as no one gets fired for that. On February 29, 2016, Adams posted on his blog that he would be taking a six-week vacation. During that time, strips would be written by him but drawn by guest artists who work for Universal Uclick. Jake Tapper drew the strip on the week on May 23. Dilbert Dilbert is an American comic strip written and illustrated by Scott Adams, first published on April 16, 1989. The strip is known for its satirical"
"Mark Evanier Mark Stephen Evanier (; born March 2, 1952) is an American comic book and television writer, particularly known for his work on the animated TV series ""Garfield and Friends"" and on the comic book ""Groo the Wanderer"". He is also known for his columns and blog News from Me, and for his work as a historian and biographer of the comics industry, in particular his award-winning Jack Kirby biography, """". Evanier identifies as Jewish. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic. He chose to be a writer after witnessing the misery his father felt from working"
"more cartoonish look from 1984 onward. This change has mainly affected Garfield's design, which underwent a ""Darwinian evolution"" in which he began walking on his hind legs, ""slimmed down"", and ""stopped looking ... through squinty little eyes"" His evolution, according to Davis, was to make it easier to ""push Odie off the table"" or ""reach for a piece of pie."" ""Garfield"" quickly became a commercial success. In 1981, less than three years after its release, the strip appeared in 850 newspapers and accumulated over $15 million in merchandise. To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. In 1982 the strip"
"also shows him several times as a cartoonist. His occupation is likely still that of a cartoonist on ""The Garfield Show"", as in the episode ""Family Picture"" he draws a sketch of a photograph that he wants to take as Liz's birthday present. Also, in the strip from May 2, 2010, Liz tells her parents Jon is a cartoonist. Jon was also seen doing his work briefly in the August 2, 2015 strip. Jon Arbuckle Jon Arbuckle is a fictional character from the ""Garfield"" comic strip by Jim Davis. He has also appeared in the animated television series ""Garfield and"
"and ""The Golden Shadow"" (1973) were written by Garfield and Edward Blishen, illustrated by Charles Keeping, and published by Longman. Leon Garfield Leon Garfield FRSL (14 July 1921 – 2 June 1996) was a British writer of fiction. He is best known for children's historical novels, though he also wrote for adults. He wrote more than thirty books and scripted """" for television. Garfield attended Brighton Grammar School (1932-1938) and went on to study art at Regent Street Polytechnic, but his studies were interrupted first by lack of funds for fees, then by the outbreak of World War II. He"
"for a series of CGI direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as an executive producer for the CGI animated TV series ""The Garfield Show"". Jim Davis was born in Marion, Indiana on July 28, 1945. Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William ""Jim"" Davis, mother Anna Catherine ""Betty"" (née Carter) Davis, brother Dave and 25 cats. Davis's childhood on a farm parallels the life of Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, who was also raised on a farm with his parents and a brother, Doc Boy. Jon is a cartoonist, who also celebrates"
"""Garfield"" strip was published. On Garfield's 25th anniversary in 2003, several strips were featured with him interacting with the version of him from 1978. Garfield frequently gets into many adventures, such as getting stuck in roll-up shades, sparring with mice, and getting locked up in animal shelters. In 2005, Garfield and Jon appeared in several comic strips of Blondie in honor of their 75th anniversary. Garfield got excited because he didn't have to think. There was an earlier Blondie crossover on the Garfield strip published April 1, 1997 and vice versa, as part of the comic strip switcheroo. Garfield was"
"Davis' Garfield"". The book includes an essay by author R.C. Harvey and other original material, and was released in July 2016 for the San Diego Comic-Con. Through the Garfield strips, there have been many additional characters, but the main ones are described here. First appearance: June 19, 1978 Garfield is an orange, fuzzy tabby cat born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant (later revealed in the television special """" to be Mama Leoni's Italian Restaurant) who immediately ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight, thus developing his love and obsession for lasagna and pizza. Gags in the strips"
"Brian Garfield Brian Francis Wynne Garfield (born January 26, 1939) is an American novelist and screenwriter. He wrote his first published book at the age of eighteen and wrote several novels under such pen names as ""Frank Wynne"" and ""'Brian Wynne"" before gaining prominence when his book ""Hopscotch"" (1975) won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel. He is best known for his 1972 novel ""Death Wish"", which was adapted for the 1974 film of the same title, followed by four sequels, and the 2018 remake. His follow-up 1975 sequel to ""Death Wish"", ""Death Sentence"", was very loosely adapted into"
"Garfield statues Marion, and surrounding Grant County, Indiana have erected a series of statues around the area depicting the comic strip character Garfield. The brainchild of local leader Pete Beck (a county councilman at the time), the basic idea is to place a likeness of Garfield in each community in the county. It is hoped that as the project matures Garfield fans will travel to Grant County and make a circuit to see all of the statues. The statues are made of hollow fiberglass after private fundraising provides for the construction at each location. Indiana native and creator of Garfield,"
"Garfield novels ""Death Wish"" and ""Death Sentence,"" redefining the Paul Kersey character. The sequel was produced by Cannon Films, which had purchased the rights to the ""Death Wish"" concept from Dino De Laurentiis. Cannon executive Menahem Golan planned to direct the film, but Winner returned on Bronson's insistence. The soundtrack was composed by guitarist Jimmy Page. ""Death Wish II"" was released in the United States in February 1982 by Filmways Pictures but like the original, Columbia Pictures handled the international release and Paramount Pictures via Trifecta Entertainment & Media handles the television rights. It earned $16.1 million during its domestic"
"in the closet. """" was published by Ballantine Books under the ""Garfield"" franchise in 1984, with creator Jim Davis writing he and his staff wrote the book to explore the character beyond what could be achieved in the comic strip. Ron Tuthill wrote the ""Babes and Bullets: The Continuing Adventures of Sam Spayed"" chapter, illustrated by Kevin Campbell. Film noir parodies were popular in films, with Sam Spayed and Tracer Bullet in ""Calvin and Hobbes"" marking the parody's crossover to comic strips. The television adaptation was written by Davis. It was directed and produced by Phil Roman under his company,"
"of liberal op-ed columnist Robert Scheer and conservative editorial cartoonist Michael Ramire. The ""Times"" has also come under controversy for its decision to drop the weekday edition of the ""Garfield"" comic strip in 2005, in favor of a hipper comic strip ""Brevity"", while retaining the Sunday edition. ""Garfield"" was dropped altogether shortly thereafter. Following the Republican Party's defeat in the 2006 mid-term elections, an Opinion piece published on November 19, 2006, by Joshua Muravchik, a leading neoconservative and a resident scholar at the conservative American Enterprise Institute, was titled BOMB IRAN. The article shocked some readers, with its hawkish comments"