Jon first appeared in the Pendleton Times on January 8, 1976, just two weeks after Gnorm Gnat ended. The early strips were not generally well documented and were considered to be lost media until 2019, when YouTuber Quinton Hoover was able to retrieve several digital scans of the Jon publications from the Pendleton Community Library and Indiana State Library. From 1976 to early 1978, these characters appeared in a strip called Jon which also ran in the Times. The final character was Lyman's dog Spot, who was renamed Odie so as to avoid confusion with a dog also named Spot in the comic strip Boner's Ark. Jon's roommate Lyman, added to give Jon someone to talk with, carried on the name of an earlier Gnorm Gnat character. Garfield Davis, whom he described as "a large, cantankerous man." The name Jon Arbuckle came from a 1950s coffee commercial. Garfield, the star, was based on the cats Davis grew up around he took his name and personality from Davis' grandfather, James A. Thus was created the character of Garfield. Davis figured he could create a cat star, having grown up on a farm with twenty-five cats. 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. Ĭartoonist Jim Davis is the creator of Garfield.Ĭartoonist Jim Davis was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana.
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Jim Davis will continue 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 except China. On August 6, 2019, New York City-based Paramount Global, at the time ViacomCBS, announced that it would acquire Paws, Inc., including most rights to the Garfield franchise (the comics, merchandise and animated cartoons). Part of the strip's broad pop cultural appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary though this was Davis's original intention, he also admitted that his "grasp of politics isn't strong", joking that, for many years, he thought " OPEC was a denture adhesive". In addition to the various merchandise and commercial tie-ins, the strip has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature-length live-action/CGI animated films, and three fully CGI animated direct-to-video films.
Originally created with the intentions to "come up with a good, marketable character", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $750 million to $1 billion annually. 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 this is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield is set in Jim Davis' 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
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