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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 ]
Odie is a yellow-furred, brown-eared dog described by Garfield to be a purebred clown and a dachshund in the live-action movies that resides with Jon and Garfield and is, at times, Garfield's best friend. The name came from a commercial written by Davis, which featured Odie the Village Idiot. Davis liked the name and reused it. [11]
Jonathan Q. "Jon" Arbuckle is an American cartoonist who is the owner of Garfield and Odie. His exact age is unknown. Jon's age was given as 29 years old in a December 23, 1980, strip when he tells Garfield a joke that he "would be 30 but he was sick a year" (although given that this is presented in the context of Jon telling a joke, it is possible Jon may not have stated his actual age). [18]
The Dugout (Bottom of the Ninth) is a 1948 painting by American artist Norman Rockwell, painted for the September 4, 1948, cover of The Saturday Evening Post magazine. The painting depicts the Chicago Cubs bench dejected during a game against the Boston Braves at Braves Field.
"The Vikings" (written by Jim Davis and Mike Fentz; illustrated by Fentz): A group of Vikings from the year 984, including Garfield the Orange, frozen in an iceberg for a thousand years, thaw out and wake up in a "lovely and warm" 1984 in St. Paul, Minnesota. After failing to pillage the town, they decide to integrate into society, but slowly ...
Rockwell won a 2020 SAG Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries of Television Movie for his role in Fosse/Verdon. He thanked Bibb again in his speech.
Paris is kidnapped and brainwashed in an attempt to get him to kill Phelps. Jim and Rollin are on a hunting trip when Jim is taken mysteriously ill. (It turns out the residents of a "Norman Rockwell" town are hired assassins, who attempt to poison Phelps when he stumbles on their secret.) In the 1980s series, former IMF agent Barney Collier is ...
Norman Lear's most recent wife was Lyn Davis Lear, who he married in 1987. He was previously married to Charlotte Rosen from 1943 to 1956 and to Frances Loeb from 1965 to 1985. What happened to ...