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James (Jim) Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and 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 . [ 1 ]
Cartoonist Jim Davis is the creator of Garfield. Cartoonist Jim Davis was born and raised in Muncie, Indiana. In 1973, while working as an assistant for T.K. 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.
The cat's name is a tribute to Davis’s beloved grandfather, James A. Garfield Davis—"a large gruff man with very kind eyes, so the personality fits Garfield," the cartoonist told The Today ...
Gnorm Gnat is an American gag-a-day comic strip by Jim Davis based on fictional insects, with the primary focus on a gnat named Gnorm. The strip appeared weekly in The Pendleton Times in Pendleton, Indiana, the only newspaper to publish the strip, [1] from 1973 to 1975, but failure to take the character to mainstream success led Davis to instead create the comic strip Garfield.
U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States and as Orson's Place in Canada) is an American comic strip that ran in newspapers from 1986 to 1989, created by Jim Davis, author of the comic strip Garfield.
The Garfield television specials are a series of twelve half-hour long American animated television specials based on the Garfield comic strip of the same name created by Jim Davis. Most specials were directed by Phil Roman, written by Davis, and featuring the voice of Lorenzo Music as the character.
Films with screenplays by Jim Davis (cartoonist) (3 P) G. Garfield (5 C, 11 P) T. Television shows written by Jim Davis (cartoonist) (11 P)
Garfield Gets a Life is a 1991 animated television special based on the Garfield comic strip written by Jim Davis. It features Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield. The special was first broadcast on May 8, 1991, on CBS. [2] It was nominated for Outstanding Animated Program at the 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards. [3]