James Robert "Jim" Davis (born July 28, 1945), is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Garfield. Other comics that he has worked on include Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, U.S. Acres a.k.a. Orson's Farm, and a strip about Mr. Potato Head. He has written Emmy-award winning TV specials and was also one of the producers behind the Garfield & Friends TV show which aired on CBS from 1988 to 1995. He is the writer and co-producer of a trilogy of...
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James Robert "Jim" Davis (born July 28, 1945), is an American cartoonist who created the comic strip Garfield. Other comics that he has worked on include Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, U.S. Acres a.k.a. Orson's Farm, and a strip about Mr. Potato Head. He has written Emmy-award winning TV specials and was also one of the producers behind the Garfield & Friends TV show which aired on CBS from 1988 to 1995. He is the writer and co-producer of a trilogy of CGI-direct-to-video feature films about Garfield; the first one, Garfield Gets Real, was released in 2007.
Jim Davis was born in Marion, Indiana in 1945, and grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine (Carter) Davis, brother Dave, and 25 cats. Davis's 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...
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