JIM DAVIS
JIM DAVIS
James Robert "Jim "Davis (born July 28 ,1945 ), is an American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield . Other comics that he has worked on include Tumbleweeds ,Gnorm Gnat , and a strip about Mr. Potato Head . He has written Emmy-award winning TV specials and two major films featuring Garfield have been released by Twentieth Century Fox: Garfield: The Movie (2004) and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006). Davis was also behind the "Garfield & Friends" TV show which aired on CBS from 1988-1995.
Jim Davis was born in Fairmount, Indiana , near Marion , where he grew up on a small farm with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine (Carter) Davis, brother Dave, and 25 cats . Davis' childhood on a farm parallels the life of his cartoon character Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle , who was also raised on a farm with his parents and a brother, Doc Boy. Jon, too, is a cartoonist, and also celebrates his birthday on July 28 . Davis attended Ball State University . While attending Ball State, he became a member of the Theta Xi fraternity . He earned the dubious honor of earning one of the lowest cumulative grade point averages in the history of the university, an honor incidentally shared with Late Show host David Letterman.
Ironically, considering his fame as a cartoonist who draws a cat, his first wife Carolyn (Altekruse) was allergic to cats [1] although they owned a dog named Molly . They have a son, James Alexander Davis On July 16, 2000, Davis married his current wife Jill. They have three children: James, Ashley, and Christopher.
Davis as of 2007 resides in Albany, Indiana , where he and his staff produce Garfield under his company, Paws, Inc. , begun in 1981. Paws, Inc. employs nearly 50 artists and licensing administrators, who work with agents around the world managing Garfield's vast licensing, syndication, and entertainment empire.
Davis and his wife Jill, Sr. VP of Licensing at Paws, have three children and three grandchildren.
Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for a local advertising agency and in 1969 began assisting Tom Ryan 's comic strip, Tumbleweeds . He then created a comic strip, Gnorm Gnat , that ran for five years in The Pendleton Times , an Indiana newspaper. Davis tried to sell it to a national comic strip syndicate , but an editor told him, "Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs — nobody can relate with bugs!"
On June 19 ,1978 ,Garfield started syndication in 41 newspapers. Things were going well until the Chicago Sun-Times cancelled the strip, prompting an outcry from 1300 readers. Garfield was reinstated and the strip quickly became the fastest selling comic strip in the world. Today it is syndicated in 2400 newspapers and is read by approximately 200 million readers each day. Guinness World Records recently proclaimed "Garfield" the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world. [citation needed ]
In the 1988-1994 cartoon series Garfield and Friends , one episode has a scene where Garfield cat sliding down a fireman's pole in a haunted house, and Davis has a brief cameo of himself drawing a cartoon.
In the 1980s, Davis also created the barnyard- slapstick comic strip U.S. Acres , featuring Orson the Pig. Outside the U.S., the strip was known as Orson's Farm . Davis also created a 2000-2003 strip based on the toy Mr. Potato Head with Brett Koth.
In 2005, Davis appeared in the music video "Lazy Muncie ", a parody of the Saturday Night Live video " Lazy Sunday ".
Most recently, Jim Davis founded The Professor Garfield Foundation, to support children’s literacy. A free educational web site www.professorgarfield.org offers content that is engaging and pedagogically sound, and is the cornerstone of the Foundation’s work.
Awards
1982 Best Humor Strip Cartoonist, Jim Davis National Cartoonist Society
1983-84 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Garfield on the Town TV special, CBS
1984-85 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program , Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Garfield in the Rough TV special, CBS
1985 Elzie Segar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cartooning, Jim Davis, National Cartoonist Society
1985-86 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Garfield’s Halloween Adventure TV special, CBS
1986 Best Humor Strip Cartoonist, Jim Davis National Cartoonist Society
1988-89 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Babes and Bullets, TV special, CBS
1988 Sagamore of the Wabash, Jim Davis State of Indiana
1989 Reuben Award for Overall Excellence in Cartooning, Jim Davis National Cartoonist Society
1989 Indiana Arbor Day Spokesman Award, Jim Davis and Garfield Indiana Division of Natural Resources and Forestry
1990 Good Steward Award, Jim Davis and Garfield National Arbor Day
1991 Indiana Journalism Award, Jim Davis and Garfield Ball State University Department of Journalism
1992 Distinguished Hoosier Award, Jim Davis State of Indiana
1995 Project Award, Jim Davis National Arbor Day Foundation
1997 Literacy Volunteers of America present Paws the LVA Leadership Award
Characters
Garfield · Jon Arbuckle · Odie · List of Garfield characters
Television specials
Here Comes Garfield · Garfield on the Town · Garfield in the Rough · Garfield's Halloween Adventure · Garfield in Paradise · A Garfield Christmas · Garfield Goes Hollywood · Happy Birthday, Garfield · Garfield: His 9 Lives · Garfield's Babes and Bullets · Garfield's Thanksgiving · Garfield's Feline Fantasies · Garfield Gets a Life
Video games
Garfield · Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal · Garfield: A Winter's Tail · Garfield: A Week of Garfield · Garfield Labyrinth · Garfield: Caught in the Act · Garfield's Mad About Cats · Garfield: The Search for Pooky · Garfield & His Nine Lives · Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties · Garfield's Nightmare · Garfield Gets Real
Films and Television Films
Garfield: The Movie · Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties · Garfield Gets Real · Garfield's Fun Fest · Pet Force
Other media
Am I Cool or What? · Garfield as Himself · Garfield and Friends (Episodes ) · Garfield's Holiday Celebrations · Garfield's Travel Adventures · Garfield's Fantasies · Pet Force · Garfield At Large: His First Book · Garfield Gains Weight: His Second Book · Professor Garfield · Garfield's Judgment Day · Garfield Cat Tales · Garfield at 25:In Dogs Years I'd Be Dead
Other
Jim Davis · U.S. Acres · Gnorm Gnat · Mr. Potato Head · Comic strip switcheroo · Klopman diamond ·
Davis, Jim: Jim Davis was born in Marion, Indiana in 1945. After college, Jim spent two years working for a local advertising agency before becoming an assistant to Tumbleweeds creator, Tom Ryan. He combined his wry wit with the art skills he had honed since childhood and Garfield, a fat, lazy, lasagna-loving, cynical cat was born. The strip debuted on June 19, 1978 in 41 U.S. newspapers. Today, GARFIELD is read in 2570 newspapers by 263,000,000 readers around the globe. Recently, Guinness World Records named Garfield "The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World." Davis has had many successes with Garfield including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program and induction into the Licensing Hall of Fame (1998), and National Cartoonist Society Awards for Best Humor Strip (1981 and 1985), an Elzie Segar Award (1990), and a Reuben Award (1990) for overall excellence in cartooning . Jim Davis is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Garfield.
JIM DAVIS
JIM DAVIS
James Robert "Jim "Davis (born July 28 ,1945 ), is an American cartoonist who created the popular comic strip Garfield . Other comics that he has worked on include Tumbleweeds ,Gnorm Gnat , and a strip about Mr. Potato Head . He has written Emmy-award winning TV specials and two major films featuring Garfield have been released by Twentieth Century Fox: Garfield: The Movie (2004) and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006). Davis was also behind the "Garfield & Friends" TV show which aired on CBS from 1988-1995.
Jim Davis was born in Fairmount, Indiana , near Marion , where he grew up on a small farm with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine (Carter) Davis, brother Dave, and 25 cats . Davis' childhood on a farm parallels the life of his cartoon character Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle , who was also raised on a farm with his parents and a brother, Doc Boy. Jon, too, is a cartoonist, and also celebrates his birthday on July 28 . Davis attended Ball State University . While attending Ball State, he became a member of the Theta Xi fraternity . He earned the dubious honor of earning one of the lowest cumulative grade point averages in the history of the university, an honor incidentally shared with Late Show host David Letterman.
Ironically, considering his fame as a cartoonist who draws a cat, his first wife Carolyn (Altekruse) was allergic to cats [1] although they owned a dog named Molly . They have a son, James Alexander Davis On July 16, 2000, Davis married his current wife Jill. They have three children: James, Ashley, and Christopher.
Davis as of 2007 resides in Albany, Indiana , where he and his staff produce Garfield under his company, Paws, Inc. , begun in 1981. Paws, Inc. employs nearly 50 artists and licensing administrators, who work with agents around the world managing Garfield's vast licensing, syndication, and entertainment empire.
Davis and his wife Jill, Sr. VP of Licensing at Paws, have three children and three grandchildren.
Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for a local advertising agency and in 1969 began assisting Tom Ryan 's comic strip, Tumbleweeds . He then created a comic strip, Gnorm Gnat , that ran for five years in The Pendleton Times , an Indiana newspaper. Davis tried to sell it to a national comic strip syndicate , but an editor told him, "Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs — nobody can relate with bugs!"
On June 19 ,1978 ,Garfield started syndication in 41 newspapers. Things were going well until the Chicago Sun-Times cancelled the strip, prompting an outcry from 1300 readers. Garfield was reinstated and the strip quickly became the fastest selling comic strip in the world. Today it is syndicated in 2400 newspapers and is read by approximately 200 million readers each day. Guinness World Records recently proclaimed "Garfield" the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world. [citation needed ]
In the 1988-1994 cartoon series Garfield and Friends , one episode has a scene where Garfield cat sliding down a fireman's pole in a haunted house, and Davis has a brief cameo of himself drawing a cartoon.
In the 1980s, Davis also created the barnyard- slapstick comic strip U.S. Acres , featuring Orson the Pig. Outside the U.S., the strip was known as Orson's Farm . Davis also created a 2000-2003 strip based on the toy Mr. Potato Head with Brett Koth.
In 2005, Davis appeared in the music video "Lazy Muncie ", a parody of the Saturday Night Live video " Lazy Sunday ".
Most recently, Jim Davis founded The Professor Garfield Foundation, to support children’s literacy. A free educational web site www.professorgarfield.org offers content that is engaging and pedagogically sound, and is the cornerstone of the Foundation’s work.
Awards
1982 Best Humor Strip Cartoonist, Jim Davis National Cartoonist Society
1983-84 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Garfield on the Town TV special, CBS
1984-85 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program , Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Garfield in the Rough TV special, CBS
1985 Elzie Segar Award for Outstanding Contributions to Cartooning, Jim Davis, National Cartoonist Society
1985-86 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Garfield’s Halloween Adventure TV special, CBS
1986 Best Humor Strip Cartoonist, Jim Davis National Cartoonist Society
1988-89 Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Jim Davis Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Babes and Bullets, TV special, CBS
1988 Sagamore of the Wabash, Jim Davis State of Indiana
1989 Reuben Award for Overall Excellence in Cartooning, Jim Davis National Cartoonist Society
1989 Indiana Arbor Day Spokesman Award, Jim Davis and Garfield Indiana Division of Natural Resources and Forestry
1990 Good Steward Award, Jim Davis and Garfield National Arbor Day
1991 Indiana Journalism Award, Jim Davis and Garfield Ball State University Department of Journalism
1992 Distinguished Hoosier Award, Jim Davis State of Indiana
1995 Project Award, Jim Davis National Arbor Day Foundation
1997 Literacy Volunteers of America present Paws the LVA Leadership Award
Characters
Garfield · Jon Arbuckle · Odie · List of Garfield characters
Television specials
Here Comes Garfield · Garfield on the Town · Garfield in the Rough · Garfield's Halloween Adventure · Garfield in Paradise · A Garfield Christmas · Garfield Goes Hollywood · Happy Birthday, Garfield · Garfield: His 9 Lives · Garfield's Babes and Bullets · Garfield's Thanksgiving · Garfield's Feline Fantasies · Garfield Gets a Life
Video games
Garfield · Garfield: Big Fat Hairy Deal · Garfield: A Winter's Tail · Garfield: A Week of Garfield · Garfield Labyrinth · Garfield: Caught in the Act · Garfield's Mad About Cats · Garfield: The Search for Pooky · Garfield & His Nine Lives · Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties · Garfield's Nightmare · Garfield Gets Real
Films and Television Films
Garfield: The Movie · Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties · Garfield Gets Real · Garfield's Fun Fest · Pet Force
Other media
Am I Cool or What? · Garfield as Himself · Garfield and Friends (Episodes ) · Garfield's Holiday Celebrations · Garfield's Travel Adventures · Garfield's Fantasies · Pet Force · Garfield At Large: His First Book · Garfield Gains Weight: His Second Book · Professor Garfield · Garfield's Judgment Day · Garfield Cat Tales · Garfield at 25:In Dogs Years I'd Be Dead
Other
Jim Davis · U.S. Acres · Gnorm Gnat · Mr. Potato Head · Comic strip switcheroo · Klopman diamond ·
Davis, Jim: Jim Davis was born in Marion, Indiana in 1945. After college, Jim spent two years working for a local advertising agency before becoming an assistant to Tumbleweeds creator, Tom Ryan. He combined his wry wit with the art skills he had honed since childhood and Garfield, a fat, lazy, lasagna-loving, cynical cat was born. The strip debuted on June 19, 1978 in 41 U.S. newspapers. Today, GARFIELD is read in 2570 newspapers by 263,000,000 readers around the globe. Recently, Guinness World Records named Garfield "The Most Widely Syndicated Comic Strip in the World." Davis has had many successes with Garfield including four Emmy Awards for Outstanding Animated Program and induction into the Licensing Hall of Fame (1998), and National Cartoonist Society Awards for Best Humor Strip (1981 and 1985), an Elzie Segar Award (1990), and a Reuben Award (1990) for overall excellence in cartooning . Jim Davis is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Garfield.