Known as Viv ( or King Viv ), Richards was voted one of the five Cricketers of the Century in 2000, by a 100-member panel of experts, along with Sir Donald Bradman, Sir Garfield Sobers, Sir Jack Hobbs and Shane Warne.

Some are non-verbal ( Marmaduke, The Angriest Dog in the World ), some have verbal thoughts but are not understood by humans, ( Garfield, Snoopy in Peanuts ), and some can converse with humans ( Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Mutts, Citizen Dog, Buckles, Get Fuzzy, Pearls Before Swine and Pooch Cafe ).

Garfield ’ s Jim Davis, for example, switched with Blondie ’ s Stan Drake, while Scott Adams ( Dilbert ) traded strips with Bil Keane ( The Family Circus ).

Some strips which are still in affiliation with the original creator are produced by small teams or entire companies, such as Jim Davis ' Garfield, however there is some debate if these strips fall in this category.

Originally created with the intentions to " come up with a good, marketable character ", Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $ 750 million to $ 1 billion annually.

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.

Garfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a " good, marketable character ".

While some critics lauded the casting of Bill Murray as the voice of the title character, Garfield: The Movie met with mostly negative reviews: Manohla Dargis of the Los Angeles Times called it " soulless excuse for entertainment ", while Desson Thomson of The Washington Post said of the film " There's nothing to recommend about this film except its sheer innocuousness ".

Garfield. com is the strip's official website, containing archives of past strips along with games and an online store.

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.

The Garfield Show, a CGI series, started production in 2008 to coincide with the strip's 30th anniversary.

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.

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.

Though Garfield can be very cynical, he does have a soft side for his teddy bear, Pooky, food and sleep, but one Christmas he says " they say I have to get up early, be nice to people, skip breakfast, not play with mice ... I wish it would never end.

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.

Though he will eat nearly anything ( with the exception of raisins and spinach ), Garfield is particularly fond of lasagna ; he also enjoys eating Jon's houseplants and other pets ( mainly birds and fish ).

Garfield initially agreed with Radical Republican views regarding Reconstruction, then favored a moderate approach for civil rights enforcement for Freedmen.

Garfield became a member of the Radical Republicans, led by Chase, in contrast with the moderate wing of the party, led by Lincoln and Montgomery Blair.

Garfield, aligned with the Radical Republicans on some issues, not only favored abolition, but early in his career believed that the leaders of the rebellion had forfeited their constitutional rights.

" When Johnson's veto terminated the Freedman's Bureau, the President had effectively entrenched himself against Congress, and Garfield rejoined the Radical camp.

* Barwick, Garfield ( 1995 ), A Radical Tory: Garfield Barwick's Reflections and recollections, Federation Press, Sydney.

During this time, Garfield revealed himself to be sympathetic with the views of moderate Republicans, though he was not yet a party man.

The incumbent in 1880, President Rutherford Hayes, had no interest in seeking a second term ; after 36 ballots, the Republicans nominated Ohio Representative James Garfield.

Raleigh Republicans persuaded President James Garfield not to re-appoint him to his post, and Holden subsequently left the party.

In March 1881, in recognition of Kilpatrick's service to the Republicans in New Jersey as well as a consolation prize for his defeat for a House seat, President James Garfield appointed Kilpatrick again to the post of Minister to Chile, where he died shortly after his arrival in the Chilean capital Santiago.

Past the parkway, US 46 continues as a road with some jughandles and other traffic light-controlled intersections ( but still largely maintaining RIRO access to driveways and side streets ), passing through a small corner of Garfield before crossing into Saddle Brook.

The train continues northward through Garfield, passing homes, businesses, and Dahnerts Lake County Park before reaching the Plauderville station at Midland Avenue, the border between Garfield and neighboring Saddle Brook.

It enters, exits, and runs parallel to Chicago limits several times, passing through or parallel to Edison Park, Norwood Park, Dunning, Montclare, and Austin on the Northwest Side then Garfield Ridge and Clearing on the Southwest Side.

North of the 14th Street intersection, Garfield Street curves northeasterly into Washington Avenue, passing to the east of an industrial complex on the river.

From its feeder streams in Upper Saddle River and the source in Airmont, New York, the Saddle River continues south for 16. 3 miles, passing through the towns of Saddle River, Waldwick, Ho-Ho-Kus, Ridgewood, Glen Rock, Paramus, Fair Lawn, Rochelle Park, Saddle Brook, Lodi, Garfield, and Wallington.

Odie appears, after scaring all but Garfield away by accident, and the two eavesdrop on the two rangers passing by with a tranquilizer gun, hoping to capture the panther.

For example, there would be a giant diamond in a museum display case, which Garfield, as the museum tour guide, would casually identify in passing as the Klopman diamond ; or Nermal would be required to polish the Klopman Diamond as one of a series of tricks during the obedience event of a cat show.

* Only Jon causes a commotion in the room-holding his breath until Liz accepts his invitation for Thanksgiving dinner-while Garfield spends the whole session silently going from denial into shock from being sentenced to a diet before passing out at the same time as a suffocating Jon.

In a Garfield animated short entitled " Secrets of the Animated Cartoon " the characters Orson and Wade give demonstrations of different laws of the cartoons and show humorous examples of them.

The director of the cartoons who had five " appearances ": " Mystic Manor " ( as himself wearing a Garfield suit drawing a comic strip ), " Flat Tired ", " Star Struck ", " Fill In Feline ", and the U. S. Acres ( Orson's Farm ) episode " What's It All About Wade?

Morris also played Wade Duck in the U. S. Acres segment of Garfield and Friends.

* 1906 – Sidney R. Garfield, American physician ( d. 1984 )

* 1931 – Garfield Morgan, English actor ( d. 2009 )

* 1963 – Richard Garfield, American game designer, created Magic: The Gathering

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

* 1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D. C. for the assassination of U. S. President James Garfield.

* 1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U. S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.

* 1949 – Celebrities Helen Keller, Dorothy Parker, Danny Kaye, Fredric March, John Garfield, Paul Muni and Edward G. Robinson are named in an FBI report as Communist Party members.

* 1936 – Garfield Sobers, Barbadian cricketer

* 1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American politician ( b. 1865 )

* 1939 – Allen Garfield, American actor

* 1831 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States ( d. 1881 )

In the December 1997 issue of Dragon Magazine, in an article on Garfield's trading card game patent application, it was reported that Garfield is the great-great-grandson of U. S. President James A. Garfield ( 1831 – 81 ), and that his great-uncle invented the paper clip.

* 1881 – U. S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.

* 1881 – Chester A. Arthur is inaugurated as the 21st President of the United States following the assassination of James Garfield.

* 1841 – Charles J. Guiteau, American preacher, writer, and lawyer, assassin of James A. Garfield ( d. 1882 )

* March 14 – Lucretia Garfield, Wife of President James Garfield ( b. 1832 )

* March 4 – John Garfield, American actor ( d. 1952 )

* October 17 – James Rudolph Garfield, U. S. politician ( d. 1950 )

* March 4 – Inauguration of James A. Garfield as President of the United States.

* July 2 – James Garfield, President of the United States, is shot by Charles Julius Guiteau.

* September 19 – U. S. President James A. Garfield dies eleven weeks after being shot.

* September 19 – James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States ( assassinated ) ( b. 1831 )

* November 2 – U. S. presidential election, 1880: James Garfield defeats Winfield S. Hancock.