Garfield attacked the mailman with his " Cat Fu " techniques.

In 1925, Lilienthal assisted criminal defense lawyers Clarence Darrow and Arthur Garfield Hays in their successful defense of Dr. Ossian Sweet, an African American physician put on trial in Detroit for killing a white man who was part of a mob that attacked Sweet's home.

After it is revealed that Garfield ( and to a lesser extent, Odie ) has eaten all the food for the week, except for the dried fruit, he takes a hike to avoid Jon's ranting and starts to appreciate the beauty of nature, until he meets two forest animals named Dicky Beaver and Billy Bunny who warn Garfield about the escaped panther, claiming it has already attacked other forest animals.

Garfield and Mutts were known during the mid-to-late 80s and 1990s respectively for their throwaways on their Sunday strips, however both strips now run " generic " title panels.

The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but recurring minor characters appear as well.

Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up ; he took his name and personality from Davis's grandfather James A. Garfield Davis, who was, in Davis's words, " a large cantankerous man ".

Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, a site with educational games focusing on math and reading skills and with Children's Technology Group to create MindWalker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre-set list.

A variety of edited Garfield strips have been made available on the Internet, some hosted on their own unofficial, dedicated sites.

Ballantine Books, which publishes the Garfield books, released a volume of Garfield Minus Garfield strips on October 28, 2008.

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.

Sega also made video games based on Garfield for the Genesis ( Garfield Caught in the Act ) and Windows 3. 1 computers, as well as other companies made games, such as A Tale of Two Kitties for the DS, published by Game Factory, Garfield's Nightmare for DS, Garfield's Funfest for DS, and Garfield Labyrinth for Game Boy.

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.

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 ".

Odie is a yellow, long-eared beagle with a large, slobbering tongue, who walks on all four legs, though occasionally he will walk on two like Garfield.

Most trips end up embarrassing because Garfield will pig out, or Jon will do something stupid, including wearing an ugly shirt, which happened one night when he took Liz on a date.

When Jon does take Liz on a date, Garfield always tags along, and he once ate all the bread, along with all the rest of the food in the place.

A few days after the storyline began, Garfield is lying in his bed with a “ nagging feeling I'm forgetting something ,” with Odie landing on Garfield in the next panel.

However, before his 29th birthday, Liz put Garfield on a diet.

A full-length stage musical, titled " Garfield Live ", was planned to kick off its US tour in September 2010, but got moved to January 18, 2011, where it premiered in Muncie, IN.

Garfield Township was organized in January 1882.

The USAT President Polk, a cargo liner impressed into service as an Army transport, embarked 55 P-40s, an equal number of pilots and ground crews gathered from four groups based in California ( including 27 pilots off the President Garfield ), and sailed without escort on 18 December, reaching Brisbane on 13 January 1942.

* January to March 2006: Sound Theatre in London starring Andrew Garfield, Gavin Brocker, Leo Bill, Sophie Stanton and Naomi Bentley.

* January 12 – James Garfield Gardiner, politician, Minister and Premier of Saskatchewan ( born 1883 )

He married Margaret R. Howell, May 30, 1930 ; children: James Newcomb, Carol, Marian ; married Mary Barnett Garfield, January 16, 1955 ; children: Sarah Newcomb, Emily Baldwin ; and married Barbara Floyd Osterman, February 8, 1986.

Piers Rolf Garfield Merchant ( 2 January 1951 – 21 September 2009 ) was a British Conservative Party politician.

In January 1941, Henry Kaiser asked Garfield to set up an insurance plan for the Richmond workers ( this was merely contract negotiation with insurance companies ), and a year later Kaiser asked Garfield to duplicate at Richmond what he had done at Desert Center and Mason City.

James Garfield " Jimmy " Gardiner, PC ( 30 November 1883, in Farhuquar, Ontario – 12 January 1962, in Balcarres, Saskatchewan ) was a Canadian farmer, educator, and politician.

In a January 2002, strip Garfield mentions that two hundred moths committed suicide.

In January 2010, Columbia Pictures hired Webb to direct The Amazing Spider-Man, a reboot of the Spider-Man film franchise, released in July 2012 and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone.

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.

Route 37 westbound past Garfield Avenue in Toms River, New Jersey | Toms RiverRoute 37 features a cloverleaf interchange with the Garden State Parkway / U. S. Route 9.

On May 9, 1952 Garfield moved out of his New York apartment for the last time, indicating to friends it was not a temporary separation.

2 ( Seattle: Tartu Publications, 1984 ), 32-35 ; Joseph H. Wherry, The Totem Pole Indians, ( New York: Wilfred Funk, Inc., 1964 ), 64, 89 ; William C. Speidel, Sons of the Profits ( Seattle: Nettle Creek Publishing Co., 1967 ), 329-331 ; Viola Garfield, Seattle's Totem Poles ( Bellevue, WA: Thistle Press, 1996 ), 9 ; Seattle Department of Parks and Recreation, Data on the History of Seattle Park System Vol.

* Garfield: His 9 Lives, a 1984 collection of illustrated short stories

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

* Garfield: His 9 Lives ( 1988 )

James Garfield at sixteen-Project Gutenberg eText14964-http :// www. gutenberg. org / dirs / 1 / 4 / 9 / 6 / 14964 / 14964-h / 14964-h. htm -

The 5 ' 9 " actress's first memorable role was opposite John Garfield in Force of Evil playing seductress Edna Tucker.

On March 9, 1881, President James A. Garfield nominated Colt to the United States District Court for the District of Rhode Island.

Garfield: His 9 Lives is a 1984 book ( ISBN 0-345-32074-3 ) of illustrated short stories showing the " nine lives " of comic strip character Garfield.

* Garfield: His 9 Lives at the Big Cartoon DataBase

nl: Garfield: His 9 Lives

* Garfield: His 9 Lives ( 1988 ) ( segment, " Lab Animal ")

Garfield is part of District 9 on the Pittsburgh City Council, and is currently represented by Rev.

Garfield's Babes and Bullets is a half-hour animated television special based on a segment from the book Garfield: His 9 Lives.

Cover of Garfield: His 9 Lives, taken from Amazon. com.