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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 ]
Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis.Originally published locally as Jon in 1976 (later changed to Garfield in 1977), then in nationwide syndication from 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle.
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.
Jim Davis (born Marlin Davis; August 26, 1909 – April 26, 1981) was an American actor, best known for his roles in television Westerns. In his later career, he became famous as Jock Ewing in the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas , a role he continued until he was too ill from multiple myeloma to perform.
James A. Garfield. On July 2, 1881, James A. Garfield, the 20th president of the United States, was shot at the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad Station in Washington, D.C., resulting in his death in Elberon, New Jersey, two and a half months later on September 19, 1881. The shooting occurred less than four months into his term as president.
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.
J. Gunnis Davis (1873–1937), actor and director, whose directorial work was credited as James Davis; Jim Davis (actor) (1909–1981), American actor Jim Davis (cartoonist) (born 1945), creator of the Garfield comic strip
Garfield is an orange cat belonging to Jon Arbuckle. [1] He was born on () June 19, 1978 (the day the first Garfield strip was published), in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni's Italian Restaurant. [2] [3] [4] Jim Davis named Garfield after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis. [5]