The Surprisingly Simple Reason Jim Davis Created the Garfield Comic Strip

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'The Garfield Movie' adapts Jim Davis' long-running comic strip about America's laziest cat

) on his smartphone, ordering his beloved lasagna to be delivered via drone. It turns out to be a last supper of sorts: Garfield is then kidnapped by a devilish white Persian cat named Jinx . Garfield has long thought his father abandoned him in an alleyway, but he learns that Vic actually left to get food for the family, and Garfield was gone by the time he returned.

In nearly two emotional hours, Garfield does eventually make peace with his father after he finds a series of scratch marks on the oak tree that Vic made and realizes that his dad was telling the truth about watching him grow up. By the end of the film, Vic is part of the family, joining in for dinner with Jon and lazing around on the couch.creator Jim Davis started cartooning as a child on a farm near Marion, Indiana, when he spent a lot of days homebound because of bad asthma.

Davis later landed a job as an assistant on the comic strip Tumbleweeds, and started dreaming up a comic strip about an animal. An early one was about a gnat named Gnorm Gnat, but an editor quickly told him that people would most likely not want to read it. There was already a comic strip about a dog nameddebuted June 19, 1978, in 41 newspapers. The cat's name is a tribute to Davis’s beloved grandfather, James A.

“People like Garfield because he relieves their guilt,” Davis told CBS News in 1994. “We live in a time where we’re made to feel guilty about overeating and oversleeping and not exercising. And Garfield not only does that, but defends his right to do that. He’s happy with himself.”TIME may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Offers may be subject to change without notice.

 

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