* Jim Davis, famed cartoonist of the comic strip Garfield, was raised in Fairmount.

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis.

Now the world's most syndicated comic strip, Garfield has spawned a " profusion " of merchandise including clothing, toys, games, Caribbean cruises, credit cards, dolls, DVDs of the movies or the TV series, and related media.

The Arbuckle website creator writes: "' Garfield ' changes from being a comic about a sassy, corpulent feline, and becomes a compelling picture of a lonely, pathetic, delusional man who talks to his pets.

Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal is a 1987 video game for the Atari ST, ZX Spectrum, Commodore 64, Amstrad CPC and the Amiga based on the comic strip.

Studios launched in May a monthly Garfield comic book, with the first issue featuring a story written by Mark Evanier ( who has supervised Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show ) and illustrated by Davis's long-time assistant Gary Barker.

Paws, Inc. was founded in 1981 by Jim Davis to support the Garfield comic strip and its licensing.

In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 from United Feature Syndicate.

Before its acquisition by Google, the gmail. com domain name was used by a free e-mail service offered by Garfield. com, online home of the comic strip Garfield.

* 1978 – Garfield, holder of the Guinness World Record for the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.

** Garfield, which eventually becomes the world's most widely syndicated comic strip, makes its debut.

Alec Sokolow and Joel Cohen, who adapted the comic Garfield into a similar-style live-action / CG hybrid family film, will pen the script for the coming-of-age story which is set in the present day.

* Jim Davis, creator of Garfield, the lasagna-loving comic strip cat.

The trailhead features two restored railcars and a statute of Garfield, the comic strip cat.

James Robert " Jim " Davis ( born July 28, 1945 ) is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strip Garfield.

Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for a local advertising agency, and in 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan's comic strip, Tumbleweeds.

Garfield was reinstated and the strip quickly became the fastest selling comic strip in the world.

Other attempts to bring comic strip characters to TV did not have anywhere near as much success until one of the Peanuts directors, Phil Roman, brought the Jim Davis comic strip Garfield to TV starting in 1982, resulting in 11 specials and a long-running animated series.

In 1982, Jim Davis's comic strip Garfield was the most popular strip in America.

* Lyman, an early Garfield comic character

To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2002, Garfield became the world's most syndicated strip, appearing in 2, 570 newspapers with 263 million readers worldwide ; by 2004, Garfield appeared in nearly 2, 600 newspapers and sold from $ 750 million to $ 1 billion worth of merchandise in 111 countries.

Dating from 2005, a site called the " Garfield Randomizer " created a three-panel strip using panels from previous Garfield strips.

Gags in the strips commonly deal with Garfield's obesity ( in one strip, Jon jokes, " I wouldn't say Garfield is fat, but the last time he got on a Ferris wheel, the two guys on top starved to death "), and his hatred of any form of exertion or work.

He enjoys destroying things, mauling the mailman, tormenting Odie, kicking Odie off the table ; he also makes snide comments, usually about Jon's inability to get a date ( in one strip, when Jon bemoans the fact that no one will go out with him on New Year's, Garfield replies, " Don't feel bad Jon.

However, it is mentioned in more than one strip that Jon cannot understand Garfield.

Many gags focus on this ; his inability to get a date is usually attributed to his lack of social skills, his poor taste in clothes ( Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that " two hundred moths committed suicide "; in another, the " geek police " ordered Jon to " throw out his tie "), and his eccentric interests which range from stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails to watching movies with " polka ninjas ".

On some occasions, however, he is depicted more intelligently, as one strip, in which he holds a heavy rock to prevent Garfield from doing this, and actually hurts Garfield's foot.

In one strip when Garfield and Jon are out of the house, Odie is seen reading War and Peace and watching a television program, An Evening With Mozart.

In a 2008 strip that appeared at June 8 and also in Garfield 2: A Tail of Two Kitties, it is implied that Jon and Liz will eventually marry.

Jon has a grandmother who, in a strip, kicked Odie ; Garfield subsequently hugged her.

Sometimes, this theme revolves around the conventions of the strip ; for example, in one strip, Garfield catches a cold and complains about it, noting, " Eben my thoughts are stuffed ub.

On June 19, 2007, Garfield was given the greatest birthday present: “ I ’ M OFF MY DIET !” Occasionally the strip celebrates Halloween as well with scary-themed jokes, such as mask gags.

Davis attracted criticism for a Garfield strip in which the last panel appeared to be a negative reference to Veterans Day that appeared in newspapers on November 11, 2010.

In the strip, a spider who is about to be squashed by Garfield boasts that if he is squished, he will get a holiday in his remembrance.

The three panel strip was one in a series that featured Garfield interacting with spiders.

Though this is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield is set in Muncie, Indiana, the home of Jim Davis, according to the television special Garfield Goes Hollywood.

A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends aired for seven seasons from 1988 to 1994 ; this adaption also starred Music as the voice of Garfield, one of the very last times Lorenzo Music would voice the character was in Garfield's Phone Messages from the Official Garfield site before his death.

Garfield is an orange, fuzzy, tabby cat born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant ( later revealed in the television special Garfield: His 9 Lives to be Mama Leoni's Italian Restaurant ) and immediately ate all the pasta and lasagna in sight, thus developing his love and obsession for lasagna and pizza.

He is best known for having hosted the long-running children's television program Garfield Goose and Friends on WGN-TV.

More than 12 Garfield television specials were produced and the Garfield and Friends animated television series ran for seven years.

In television the song has cropped up in episodes and programs that include The Berenstain Bears and the Talent Show ; The Berenstain Bears and the Female Fullback ; Rawhide ; Garfield and Friends ; The Care Bears ; Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman ; Saved by the Bell ; All That ; Kenan & Kel ; Drake and Josh, SpongeBob SquarePants, That's So Raven ; Rugrats ; Cat in the Hat ; Peter Gunn ; Little House on the Prairie ; Our Gang ; The Twilight Zone ; Wind at My Back ; Leonardo and Shining Time Station.

Linda Bove ( born November 30, 1945 in Garfield, New Jersey ) is a deaf American actress who played the part of Linda the Librarian on the children's television program Sesame Street from 1971 to 2003.

Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis.

* Rudy: A dog who beats on Garfield every time he hosts a television program and says something bad about dogs.

The book and television special, Garfield: His 9 Lives, retcons Odie's origins, saying that Jon bought him at a pet store.

Garfield Goose and Friends is a children's television show produced by WGN-TV in Chicago, Illinois, United States from 1955 to 1976.

Thomas created Garfield Goose for a local television program he hosted in Cincinnati.

He wanted to do something special to award prizes to children on his television show, so he created a Garfield Goose puppet for that purpose.

" Garfield " was the television station's telephone exchange.

The television station indicated that it was only willing to pay a union-scale wage for one performer on the Garfield Goose program.