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.

For the past couple of years, Evanier has also been the co-writer and voice director of The Garfield Show.

Davis is the writer and executive producer of a trilogy of C. G .- direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as one of the executive producers and the creator for the new CGI-animated TV series The Garfield Show.

* " Show Stoppers ", an episode of Garfield and Friends from 1989

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.

Welker voiced Garfield in Garfield Gets Real, Garfield's Fun Fest, Garfield's Pet Force, and also in the new series The Garfield Show.

A Mexican Jumping Bean appears in The Garfield Show episode ' Full of Beans ', when Odie accidentally swallows a Mexican Jumping Bean given by Jon's Mexican uncle, Pablo.

He has also appeared in Garfield and Friends, The Garfield Show, two live-action feature films, and 3 CGI films.

In the CGI Series, The Garfield Show, Odie is usually heard barking, but occasionally audible words are spoken.

In The Garfield Show Odie's tongue is once again shown to be very long and stretchy.

" In the first episode of The Garfield Show an alien species that resemble lasagna scan Odie with a ray that indicates brain power-the result was zero.

* Wally Wingert ( 3 )-Voice Actor with credits including Invader Zim ( Almighty Tallest Red ), Bleach ( Renji Abarai ), and The Garfield Show ( Jon ).

As often happened during the 1950s and early 1960s ( such as with The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson or the first Super Bowl game ), Garfield Goose and Friends aired live for much of its history.

He has also appeared in the animated television series Garfield and Friends, the computer-animated The Garfield Show, and two live-action feature films.

On The Garfield Show, however, he's portrayed as being smarter, but still a little gullible.

His occupation is likely still that of a cartoonist on The Garfield Show, as in the episode " Family Picture ", he draws a sketch of a photograph that he wants to take as Liz's birthday present.

Wally also provides Jon's voice for The Garfield Show.

In 2007, the CGI movie Garfield Gets Real was released, followed by Garfield's Fun Fest in 2008, and Garfield's Pet Force in 2009.

* The Garfield Show-New CGI animated series

Dagwood appeared in the CGI animated film, Garfield Gets Real.

Grimmy made a couple of appearances on the CGI animated film, Garfield Gets Real.

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.

In Garfield ’ s Twentieth Anniversary Collection, in which the strips are reprinted, Jim Davis discusses the genesis for this series:

After a series of events, including Odie being adopted by a small girl, both pets meeting up at a circus that they briefly joined, and both going to a pet shop, Garfield and Odie make it back home.

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

* 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.

Shatner and Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens wrote a series of novels that depict Kirk's resurrection by the Borg and his ongoing adventures after the events of Generations.

The story of Antinous ' death was recently dramatized in the radio play " The Glass Ball Game ", Episode Two of the second series of the BBC radio drama CAESAR, written by Mike Walker, directed by Jeremy Mortimer and starring Jonathan Coy as " Suetonius ", Jonathan Hyde as " Hadrian " and Andrew Garfield as " Antinous ".

But he is most noted in animation for his work on Garfield and Friends, a seven-season series for which Evanier wrote or co-wrote nearly every episode and acted as voice recording director.

In the 1988-94 cartoon series Garfield and Friends, one episode (" Mystic Manor ") has a scene of Garfield sliding down a fireman's pole in a haunted house, and Davis has, in briefs, himself drawing a cartoon.

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.

His father remarried and moved to the West Bronx where Garfield joined a series of gangs.

The result was often a series of suspensions, Garfield refusing an assigned role and Warners refusing to pay him.

After the war Garfield starred in a series of successful films such as The Postman Always Rings Twice ( 1946 ) with Lana Turner, Humoresque ( 1946 ) with Joan Crawford, and the Oscar-winning Best Picture Gentleman's Agreement ( 1947 ).

Horrocks's voiceovers have been used on Chicken Run ( 2000 ), Christmas Carol: The Movie ( 2001 ), Corpse Bride ( 2005 ), Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties ( 2006 ) and Tinker Bell ( 2008 ) ( in which she was Fairy Mary ; she reprises the role in the Tinker Bell sequels ), and on radio as Fenchurch in the audio adaptation of Douglas Adams ' science fiction series The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy for BBC Radio 4.

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

Other shows that have aired include the Street Sharks, Extreme Dinosaurs, Dragon Flyz, Biker Mice from Mars, Earth Worm Jim, The Tick, Garfield and Friends, Gadget Boy and Heather, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles ( 2003 series ), Count Duckula, Jimmy Neutron, Project G. e. e. K. e. R., Wing Commander and Rugrats.

After James T. Kirk's final onscreen appearance in Star Trek: Generations, William Shatner collaborated with authors Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens on a series of nine novels depicting the " rebirth " of Kirk after his demise in that film.

In a long series of essays on the Nobel and other prizes Garfield reported this phenomenon.

* Doc Boy, a character from the Garfield series

Ever since Jon and Liz began to go out more frequently, Jon has started hiring pet sitters to look after Garfield and Odie, though they don't always work out.

Garfield immediately demanded Brady's resignation and started prosecutions led by Postmaster James that would end in the famous " star route " indictments and trials for conspiracy.

On June 19, 1978, Garfield started syndication in 41 newspapers.

Eddie Brigati ( vocals ), Felix Cavaliere ( keyboard, vocals ), Gene Cornish ( guitar ) and Dino Danelli ( drums ) started the band in Brigati and Danelli's hometown of Garfield, New Jersey.

After being stranded in Brazil with his wife and sons Garfield and Victor, he started building a boat that could sail them home.

* Theme Song: This usually started with a formal styled Garfield on the fence turning on a record player and an announcer introducing the show.

He was born Garfield Blackman in Barrackpore, Trinidad and Tobago, and rose to fame as Lord Shorty with his 1963 hit " Clock and Dagger " and took on the name Ras Shorty. He started out writing songs and performing in the calypso genre.

Following ideas inspired by Vannevar Bush's famous 1945 article " As We May Think ", Garfield undertook the development of a comprehensive citation index showing the propagation of scientific thinking ; he started the Institute for Scientific Information in 1955.

Many immigrants from Poland moved to Garfield Ridge in past years, and since the 1990s many Hispanics have started settling in the neighborhood.

A smelter was also started at Garfield by the American Smelting and Refining Company ( ASARCO ) to refine the Bingham ore.