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Garfield
''Garfield'' is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. 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. 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. Though its setting is rarely mentioned in print, ''Garfield'' takes place in Jim Davis' hometown of Muncie, Indiana, according to the television special ''Happy Birthday, Garfield''. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, love of coffee and lasagna, disdain of Mondays, and diets. Garfield is also shown to manipulate people to get whatever he wants. The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but other recurring characters appear as well. Originally created with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garfield (character)
Garfield is a fictional cat and the protagonist of the comic strip Garfield, of the same name, created by Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis. The comic strip centers on Garfield, portrayed as a lazy, fat, and cynical orange tabby Persian cat. He is noted for his love of lasagna and sleeping, and his hatred of Mondays, fellow cat List of characters in the Garfield franchise#Nermal, Nermal and exercise. Character Fictional biography Garfield is an orange cat belonging to Jon Arbuckle. He was born on , in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni's Italian Restaurant. Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis named Garfield after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis. As a kitten, he develops a taste for lasagna, which would become his favorite food. Because of his appetite, the owner of Mamma Leoni's has to choose between giving away Garfield or closing down his restaurant; so Garfield is sold to a pet shop. Garfield is adopted from the store by Jon Arbuckle on August 19, 1978. In his cartoon appearance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Arbuckle
Jonathan Q. Arbuckle is a fictional character from the ''Garfield'' comic strip by Jim Davis. He also appears in the animated television series ''Garfield and Friends'' and ''The Garfield Show'', two live-action/ CGI feature films, and three fully CGI films. Jon is the owner of Garfield and Odie. Development The character of Jon Arbuckle was originally envisioned by Jim Davis as an author surrogate and was the primary character of the comic strip ''Jon'', created by Davis in 1976 and syndicated locally in the Indiana newspaper '' The Pendleton Times''. ''Jon'' featured Jon Arbuckle alongside his pet cat, Garfield, and a dog named "Spot", who would eventually evolve into Odie. Davis eventually decided to replace Jon with Garfield as the main character, with the renamed ''Garfield'' strip achieving national syndication in 1978. Fictional biography Jon told Garfield that he was 29 years old in a December 23, 1980 strip. However, in the episode "T3000" of ''The Garfield Show' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pooky (Garfield Character)
This is a list of characters in the ''Garfield'' comic strip, created by Jim Davis, organized by category and date of first appearance. Main characters Garfield First Appearance: June 19, 1978 Garfield is Jon's orange cat. Among his personality traits are his laziness, his cynicism and sarcasm, his hatred of Mondays, his tendency to be annoyed by Jon's dog Odie, and his love of lasagna, and his hatred of Nermal. In February 2017, a dispute arose on the talk page of the character's Wikipedia page as to the character's gender. Although other characters have persistently referred to Garfield with male pronouns, owing to comments that the character's creator, Jim Davis, made in 2014 to Mental Floss, in which he said, "Garfield is very universal. By virtue of being a cat, really, he's not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old. It gives me a lot more latitude for the humor for the situations. Davis explained that although Garfield is neither ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nermal
This is a list of characters in the ''Garfield'' comic strip, created by Jim Davis, organized by category and date of first appearance. Main characters Garfield First Appearance: June 19, 1978 Garfield is Jon's orange cat. Among his personality traits are his laziness, his cynicism and sarcasm, his hatred of Mondays, his tendency to be annoyed by Jon's dog Odie, and his love of lasagna, and his hatred of Nermal. In February 2017, a dispute arose on the talk page of the character's Wikipedia page as to the character's gender. Although other characters have persistently referred to Garfield with male pronouns, owing to comments that the character's creator, Jim Davis, made in 2014 to Mental Floss, in which he said, "Garfield is very universal. By virtue of being a cat, really, he's not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old. It gives me a lot more latitude for the humor for the situations. Davis explained that although Garfield is neither ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arlene (Garfield Character)
This is a list of characters in the ''Garfield'' comic strip, created by Jim Davis, organized by category and date of first appearance. Main characters Garfield First Appearance: June 19, 1978 Garfield is Jon's orange cat. Among his personality traits are his laziness, his cynicism and sarcasm, his hatred of Mondays, his tendency to be annoyed by Jon's dog Odie, and his love of lasagna, and his hatred of Nermal. In February 2017, a dispute arose on the talk page of the character's Wikipedia page as to the character's gender. Although other characters have persistently referred to Garfield with male pronouns, owing to comments that the character's creator, Jim Davis, made in 2014 to Mental Floss, in which he said, "Garfield is very universal. By virtue of being a cat, really, he's not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old. It gives me a lot more latitude for the humor for the situations. Davis explained that although Garfield is neither ma ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Davis (cartoonist)
James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, television writer, television producer, screenwriter, and film producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips ''Garfield'' and ''U.S. Acres''. Published since 1978, ''Garfield'' is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes ''Tumbleweeds (comic strip), Tumbleweeds'', ''Gnorm Gnat'', and ''Mr. Potato Head''. Davis wrote and co-wrote all of the ''Garfield'' TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced ''Garfield & Friends'', a series which also aired on CBS from 1988 to 1994. Davis was the writer and executive producer for a series of Computer-generated imagery, CGI direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as an executive producer for the CGI animated TV series ''The Garfield Show'' and ''Garfield Originals''. Early and personal life James Robert Davis was born in Marion, Indiana, on July 28, 1945. Davi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odie
Odie is a fictional dog who appears in the comic strip ''Garfield'' by Jim Davis. He has also made appearances in the animated television series ''Garfield and Friends'' and '' The Garfield Show'', two live-action/ CGI feature films, and three fully CGI films. Appearances Odie is a yellow-furred, brown-eared dog. In the live-action/animated films based on the ''Garfield'' franchise, he is depicted as a wire-haired dachshund/terrier mix. He has a large tongue and slobbers in his appearances. After October 1997, he began walking regularly on two feet, instead of all fours, like Garfield. In the feature film adaptation '' Garfield: The Movie'', Odie's ability to walk, and more importantly dance on two legs, earns him a lot of attention, and is a major plot point throughout the film. He is seen by Garfield as a “slobbering atrocity” in some of the earlier strips, and then later Garfield feels more sympathetic about Odie. History The name came from a car dealership commercia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. It uses both live-action and animation. The special was first broadcast May 17, 1988 on CBS and February 24, 1989 on CITV. When it comes to home video, it has only been released on VHS in the United Kingdom. Synopsis The program featured the people behind the strips and animated adaptations, which include *A very brief animated short made in 1980 from ''The Fantastic Funnies'' (two years before ''Here Comes Garfield'') by Bill Melendez and Lee Mendelson (well known for their ''Peanuts'' specials) featuring jokes from the strips of June 21 and August 2, 1978 and July 7, 1979. *A recording session for the upcoming ''Garfield and Friends'' series (with Lorenzo Music, Gregg Berger and Thom Huge), apart from some footage from it and from '' Garfield: His 9 Lives''. *Spanish- and German-dubbed clips of ''Here Comes Garfield ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Comic Strip
A comic strip is a sequence of drawings, often cartoons, arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a narrative, often serialized, with text in balloons and captions. Traditionally, throughout the 20th and into the 21st century, these have been published in newspapers and magazines, with daily horizontal strips printed in black-and-white in newspapers, while Sunday papers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections. With the advent of the internet, online comic strips began to appear as webcomics. Strips are written and drawn by a comics artist, known as a cartoonist. As the word "comic" implies, strips are frequently humorous. Examples of these gag-a-day strips are '' Blondie'', ''Bringing Up Father'', ''Marmaduke'', and ''Pearls Before Swine''. In the late 1920s, comic strips expanded from their mirthful origins to feature adventure stories, as seen in ''Popeye'', ''Captain Easy'', ''Buck Rogers'', ''Tarzan'', and ''Terry and the Pira ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Feature Syndicate
United Feature Syndicate (UFS) is a large American editorial column and comic strip newspaper syndication service based in the United States and established in 1919. Originally part of E. W. Scripps Company, it was part of United Media (along with the Newspaper Enterprise Association) from 1978 to 2011, and is now a division of Andrews McMeel Syndication. United Features has syndicated many notable comic strips, including ''Peanuts'', ''Garfield'', ''Li'l Abner'', ''Dilbert'', ''Nancy (comic strip), Nancy'', and ''Marmaduke''. History United Feature Syndicate was formed in 1919.Booker, M. Keith. "United Feature Syndicate," in ''Comics through Time: A History of Icons, Idols, and Ideas'' (ABC-CLIO, 2014), p. 399."United Feature Syndicate Buys Metropolitan Service From Elser: Both Firms Will Retain Separate Identities, With Elser Remaining as Vice-President — Monte Bourjaily to Direct Both Organizations," ''Editor & Publisher'' (March 15, 1930). Archived a"News of Yore 1930: Anoth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Monday
Monday is the day of the week between Sunday and Tuesday. According to the International Organization for Standardization's ISO 8601 standard, it is the first day of the week and in countries that adopt the "Sunday-first" convention, it is the second day of the week. The name of Monday is derived from Old English ''Mōnandæg'' and Middle English ''Monenday'', originally a translation of Latin ''dies lunae'' "day of the Moon". Names The names of the day of the week were coined in the Roman era, in Greek and Latin, in the case of Monday as ἡμέρᾱ Σελήνης, ''diēs Lūnae'' "day of the Moon". Many languages use terms either directly derived from these names or loan translations based on them. The English noun ''Monday'' derived sometime before 1200 from ''monedæi'', which itself developed from Old English (around 1000) ''mōnandæg'' and ''mōndæg'' (literally meaning "moon's day"), which has cognates in other Germanic languages, including Old Frisian ''mōna ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Muncie, Indiana
Muncie ( ) is an incorporated city and the county seat, seat of Delaware County, Indiana, Delaware County, Indiana. Previously known as Buckongahelas Town, named after the legendary Delaware Chief.http://www.delawarecountyhistory.org/history/docs/lenape-villages.pdf It is located in East Central Indiana, about northeast of Indianapolis. The 2020 United States Census, United States Census for 2020 reported the city's population was 65,194. It is the principal city of the Muncie metropolitan statistical area, which has a population of 117,671. The Lenape (Delaware (tribe), Delaware) people, led by Buckongahelas arrived in the area in the 1790s, founding several villages, including one known as Munsee Town, along the White River (Indiana), White River. The trading post, renamed Muncietown, was selected as the Delaware County seat and platted in 1827. Its name was officially shortened to Muncie in 1845 and incorporated as a city in 1865. Muncie developed as a manufacturing and indus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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