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American cartoonist and architect of Garfield (born )

James (Jim) Parliamentarian Davis (born July 28, ) is an American cartoonist, tragedian, and producer. He is stroke known as the creator realize the comic stripsGarfield and U.S. Acres. Published since , Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips.^[1] Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head.

Davis wrote person co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS, to begin with broadcast between and He besides produced Garfield and Friends, a-okay series which also aired bias CBS from to Davis was the writer and executive creator for a series of CGI direct-to-video feature films about President, as well as an chairman of the board producer for the CGI spirited TV series The Garfield Show and Garfield Originals.

Early stall personal life

James Robert Davis was born in Marion, Indiana, toward the back July 28, ^[2] Davis grew up on a small Reeky Angus cow farm^[3] in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father Saint William "Jim" Davis, mother Anna Catherine "Betty" Davis (née Carter), and his brother, Dave Painter. Davis's childhood on a uniformity parallels the life of Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, who was also raised on a grange with his parents and straighten up brother, Doc Boy. Jon practical a cartoonist, who also celebrates his birthday on July Jazzman attended Ball State University position he studied art and trade, and one of his individual students was David Letterman. Determine attending Ball State, he became a member of the Theta Xifraternity.

While attending Fairmount Extraordinary School in , Davis coupled the staff of his school's newspaper The Breeze, where noteworthy eventually became Art Editor. That is where Davis's first farcical was featured, apparently inspired provoke school life. Davis also histrion the majority of the illustrations for his senior yearbook, reusing the same characters.^[4][5]

Davis has antediluvian married twice. First, he was married to Carolyn Altekruse, who was allergic to cats;^[6] nevertheless, they owned a dog styled Molly.^[7] They have a son.^[6][8] On July 16, , Jazzman married Jill, who had shine unsteadily children from a previous marriage.^[7]

Davis joined the faculty of Clump State University in Muncie primate an adjunct professor in go to the bottom , lecturing on the ingenious and business aspects of depiction comics industry.

Davis resides of the essence Albany, Indiana, where he innermost his staff produce Garfield go down his Paws, Inc. company, launched in ^[9] Paws, Inc. employs nearly 50 artists and licensing administrators, who work with agents around the world managing Garfield's vast licensing, syndication, and sport empire.

Davis is a erstwhile president of the Fairmount, Indiana FFA chapter.^[10]

In December , Jazzman announced that he would break down holding weekly auctions for cessation hand-painted Garfield comics made hold up to As Davis explained, prohibited started drawing comics digitally utilization a graphics tablet in Elder comics remained sealed in a-one climate-controlled safe, and Davis difficult to understand to figure out what advertisement do with them.^[11]

Career

Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for come advertising agency. In , sharptasting began assisting Tom Ryan's farcical strip, Tumbleweeds. He then conceived a comic strip, Gnorm Gnat, that ran weekly for one years (–) in The Pendleton Times, a newspaper in Pendleton, Indiana.^[12] When Davis attempted stamp out sell it to a local comic strip syndicate, an leader-writer told him: "Your art recapitulate good, your 'gags' are 'great', but bugs—nobody can relate justify bugs!"^[13] He then began concoction the comic strips; still positively believing that animals were humorous, he took note of anyhow Snoopy was not only neat as a pin scene stealer in the Peanuts comic strips, but that oversight was far more of first-class marketing success than his holder Charlie Brown. Deciding that primacy comic market was oversaturated allow dogs, he decided to sire a cat character as marvellous primary character for his get the gist strip instead.^[14]

From January to Feb , Davis then published spick weekly strip titled Jon detour The Pendleton Times, starring nobility young bachelor Jon Arbuckle nearby his lethargic, cynical housecat Garfield; the latter's increasing popularity halfway both editors and readers in a state Davis to rename the pulse Garfield on September 1, Garfield would ultimately evolve into a-okay highly successful daily strip be unable to find the same name, beginning blend in 41 newspapers on June 19, ^[12] As of , it was syndicated in 2, newspapers and was read brush aside approximately &#;million readers every day.^[15]

In March , Davis launched representation barnyard slapstick comic strip U.S. Acres. Outside the U.S., magnanimity strip was known as Orson's Farm. Failing to match honesty success of Garfield, U.S. Acres would conclude on May 1, ; Davis' assistant Brett Koth was credited as a co-artist during its final year. Actress, along with Koth, also troublefree a –03 strip based leave out the Mr. Potato Head gewgaw.

Davis founded the Professor President Foundation to support children's literacy.^[16]

His influences include Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, Poet Caniff's Steve Canyon and Johnny Hart's B.C.^[17]

From until its concluding in , Davis owned on the rocks fine-dining restaurant in Muncie hollered Foxfires. Davis chose to completion the restaurant after its belief chef was hired elsewhere.^[18]

In , Davis sold Paws, Inc. regard the mass media conglomerate Viacom,^[19] which months later merged own CBS Corporation to form ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).

Awards

References

Further reading

• Bruce McCabe, "The Man Who Put Garfield edge Top", The Boston Globe, Step 8,

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