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

Other unique themes are things like “ Garfield ’ s Believe it or Don ’ t ,” “ Garfield ’ s Law ", “ Garfield ’ s History of Dogs, and “ Garfield ’ s History of Cats ,” which show science, history and the world from Garfield ’ s point of view.

* James A. Garfield, Twentieth President of the United States of America

Compilations that include the game are Sonic Jam ( 1997 ) for the Sega Saturn ; Sonic & Knuckles Collection ( 1997 ) and Sonic & Garfield Pack ( 1999 ) for the PC, Sonic Mega Collection ( 2002 ) for the Nintendo GameCube ; Sonic Mega Collection Plus ( 2004 ) for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC ; Sega Genesis Collection ( 2006 ) for the PlayStation 2 and PlayStation Portable ; Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection ( 2009 ) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ; and Sonic Classic Collection ( 2010 ) for the Nintendo DS.

Compilations that include the game are Sonic Jam ( 1997 ) for the Sega Saturn ; Sonic & Knuckles Collection ( 1997 ) and Sonic & Garfield Pack ( 1999 ) for the PC, Sonic Mega Collection ( 2002 ) for the Nintendo GameCube ; Sonic Mega Collection Plus ( 2004 ) for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC ; Sonic's Ultimate Genesis Collection ( 2009 ) for the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 ; and Sonic Classic Collection ( 2010 ) for the Nintendo DS.

By virtue of being a native Ohioan, he was commissioned to sculpt two statues of the recently assassinated President Garfield ; one for Cincinnati ( Garfield's home city ), and the other, in another pose, for the National Statuary Hall Collection at the United States Capitol.

* Bust of James A. Garfield, United States Senate Art Collection, United States Capitol, ca.

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.

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

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.

Strips that play off of the size of Odie's tongue and his inscrutability include one in which Garfield remarks, " Is there any wonder why there's no room in his head for a brain?

", and another in which Garfield pulls Odie's tail, which results in his tongue being pulled out.

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.

One storyline, which ran the week before Halloween in 1989 ( Oct 23 to Oct 28 ), is unique among Garfield strips in that it is not meant to be humorous.

It depicts Garfield awakening in a future in which the house is abandoned and he no longer exists.

Another story involved Jon going away on a business trip around Christmas time, leaving Garfield a week's worth of food ( it was more like 11 second's worth of food ) which he devoured instantly, so Garfield leaves his house and gets locked out.

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 1997, a $ 325, 000 bronze sculpture ( equal to $ today ) by artists Ralph Helmick, Stu Schecter, and John Outterbridge depicting oversized nine-foot busts of Robinson and his brother Mack was erected at Garfield Avenue, across from the main entrance of Pasadena City Hall ; a granite footprint lists multiple donors to the commission project, which was organized by the Robinson Memorial Foundation and supported by members of the Robinson family.

* In the Garfield comic strip and television series, there is a running gag about a " splut ," which is usually the sound of a pie hitting someone in the face.

While searching for a publisher for RoboRally, which he designed in 1985, Garfield found Peter Adkison of Wizards of the Coast, who expressed interest in Magic.

Playtesters began independently developing expansion packs, which were then passed to Garfield to edit.

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.

Slapstick and visual gags became more confined to Sunday strips, because as Garfield creator Jim Davis put it, " Children are more likely to read Sunday strips than dailies.

Adams later said that fans should stick to posting Garfield strips, as no one gets fired for that.

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

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

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

Another approach, known as " Silent Garfield ", involves removing Garfield's thought balloons from the strips.

Still another approach to editing the strips involves removing Garfield and other main characters from the originals completely, leaving Jon talking to himself.

While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2006, the 2008 site Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media.

Through the Garfield strips, there have been many additional characters, but the four main ones are described here.

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.

In a few of the July 2007 strips, Garfield became jealous of Liz until they became friends July 24.

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

Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution " contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits ".

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 ).

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.

Frequently, the characters break the fourth wall, mostly to explain something to the readers, talk about a subject that often sets up the strip's punchline ( like Jon claiming that pets are good for exercise right before he finds Garfield in the kitchen and chases him out ), or give a mere glare when a character is belittled or not impressed.

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.

Another example is " Splut Week ", when Garfield tries to avoid pies that are thrown at him.

* 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.

Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution " contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits ".

Future president James Garfield, at the close of the Civil War, said that Jefferson's Kentucky Resolution " contained the germ of nullification and secession, and we are today reaping the fruits ".

** Red Scare: Celebrities including 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.

Family life had also increased in importance to Garfield, who said to his wife in 1871, " When you are ill, I am like the inhabitants of a country visited by earthquakes.

Garfield had urged that the nation's ties to its southern neighbors be strengthened ; as early as 1876, he said, " I would rather blot out five or six European missions than these South American ones ... They are our neighbors and friends.

Similar traditional and intercultural updating of Mexican celebrations are held in San Francisco, for example, the Galería de la Raza, SomArts Cultural Center, Mission Cultural Center, de Young Museum and altars at Garfield Square by the Marigold Project.

* There is a Tilden Street in an area of Wichita Falls, Texas, where the streets are named for the U. S. presidents Van Buren through Garfield ( excluding Pierce, Andrew Johnson and Lincoln ).