As of March 31, 2011, the Board of Directors consisted of Frank Dangeard, Jim Wilson, Tom Virden, Gene Davis, Alexandra Fichelson.

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

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.

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.

Atkins produced records for The Browns, Porter Wagoner, Norma Jean, Dolly Parton, Dottie West, Perry Como, Elvis Presley, the Everly Brothers, Eddy Arnold, Don Gibson, Jim Reeves, Jerry Reed, Skeeter Davis, Waylon Jennings and many others.

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

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis.

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.

In the 1970s the comic strip artist Jim Davis authored a strip, Gnorm Gnat, which met with little success.

Jon Arbuckle came from a coffee commercial from the 1950s, and Odie was based on a car dealership commercial written by Jim Davis, which featured Odie the Village Idiot.

Fans connected with Jon's " loneliness and desperation " and found his " crazy antics " humorous ; Jim Davis himself called Walsh's strips an " inspired thing to do " and said that " some of strips work better the originals ".

The book was written by Jim Davis, with music and lyrics by Michael Dansicker and Bill Meade, and it was booked by AWA Touring Services.

However, in many books and interviews, Jim Davis reveals that he has no definite plans for a Jon / Liz marriage.

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

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

While relations were cordial between the two companies at first, the departure of Jim Levy from Activision left Bruce Davis in charge.

* 1945 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist and writer

In 1954, he appeared as Jesse James in the Jim Davis syndicated series Stories of the Century.

At the turn of the 21st century, well-established artists such as Sir Anthony Caro, Lucian Freud, Cy Twombly, Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns, Agnes Martin, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Kenneth Noland, Jules Olitski, Claes Oldenburg, Jim Dine, James Rosenquist, Alex Katz, Philip Pearlstein, and younger artists including Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Sam Gilliam, Isaac Witkin, Sean Scully, Mahirwan Mamtani, Joseph Nechvatal, Elizabeth Murray, Larry Poons, Richard Serra, Walter Darby Bannard, Larry Zox, Ronnie Landfield, Ronald Davis, Dan Christensen, Joel Shapiro, Tom Otterness, Joan Snyder, Ross Bleckner, Archie Rand, Susan Crile, and dozens of others continued to produce vital and influential paintings and sculpture.

* 1989: Jim Davis, Garfield

* 1985 Jim Davis

But, in mid-December, Marshall announced that on the day of the NFL draft he had traded the rights to Davis to the Cleveland Browns, who wanted Davis to join the league's leading rusher, Jim Brown, in their backfield.

* July 28 – Jim Davis, American cartoonist

A personal influence on Costas has been legendary ABC Sports broadcaster Jim McKay, who hosted many Olympics for ABC from the 1960s to the 1980s.

Historian Jim Bradbury has summarised the contemporary historical opinion of John's positive qualities, observing that John is today usually considered a " hard-working administrator, an able man, an able general ".

His son Jim Loach has also become a television and film director.

Loach values having a strong, creative partnership with scriptwriters, most recently with Paul Laverty, who has written nine feature films for Loach ( including The Wind That Shakes The Barley and Sweet Sixteen ), and previously with Jim Allen ( Land & Freedom ) and Barry Hines ( Kes ).

Kid Rock has frequently partnered with Jim Beam to make large donations to the organization.

If Joe answers Jim, saying " That may be true for you, but it is not true for me ," he has given an answer which is fallacious as well as being somewhat meaningless in the context of Jim's original statement.

Lemmy recently has appeared on Down and Dirty with Jim Norton as the series deejay, and also created the theme music.

He has also called the Wimbledon Tennis Championships for TNT with Jim Courier and Mary Carillo.

More than once, the magazine has enlisted popular comic book artists such as Frank Miller or Jim Lee to design and illustrate a series of " Rejected Superheroes.

On 15 July 2009, Senator Jim Webb of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee declared that only the " United States has both the stature and the national power to confront the obvious imbalance of power that China brings " to situations such as the claims to the Spratly and Paracel islands.

With Jim Rockhill and Brian J. Showers, Crawford has edited Reflections in a Glass Darkly: Essays on J. Sheridan Le Fanu.

" He also said tackle Jim Lachey " has bad breath.

Classical Comics, a UK publisher creating graphic novel adaptations of classical literature, has produced a full colour paperback Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Sweeney Todd ( 176 pages, November 2010, Original Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-79-2, Quick Text, ISBN 978-1-906332-80-8, forthcoming ) with script adaptation by Sean M. Wilson, linework by Declan Shalvey ; colouring by Jason Cardy & Kat Nicholson and lettering by Jim Campbell.

A few earlier syndicated programs were hosted by prominent Democrats who were not experienced broadcasters, such as Jim Hightower, Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz ; these met with limited success, and Air America has been faced with various legal and financial problems.

Radio play-by-play has been handled since 1975 by Jim Weber.

Minuteman Project co-founder Jim Gilchrist ran for Congress with the American Independent Party in 2005, but has since rejoined the Republicans.

During her career, Ono has collaborated with a diverse group of artists and musicians including John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Klaus Voormann, Cornelius ( Keigo Oyamada, Naoki Shimizu and Yoko Araki ), Frank Zappa, Sean Lennon, Yuka Honda, Jim Keltner, Earl Slick, Peaches, John Cage, David Tudor, George Maciunas, Ornette Coleman, Charlotte Moorman, George Brecht, Jackson Mac Low, Jonas Mekas, Fred DeAsis, Yvonne Rainer, La Monte Young, Richard Maxfield, Zbigniew Rybczyński, Yo La Tengo, and Andy Warhol ( in 1987 Ono was one of the speakers at Warhol's funeral ).

An even more ambitious use of the conservatorship model has been proposed by Duke Professors Lawrence Baxter, Bill Brown and Jim Cox.

Mark Twain's novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn has long been the subject of controversy for its racial content, including its use of the word " nigger " as applied to the escaped slave character Jim.

Benford has an identical twin brother, Jim Benford, with whom he has collaborated on science fiction stories.

Jim Rose's group has now reported and the UK Government has decreed that synthetic phonics should be the method of choice for teaching reading in primary schools in England.