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James Robert Davis ( Marion, Indiana; 28 de julio de 1945), más conocido como Jim Davis, es un dibujante de cómics estadounidense, famoso por ser el creador de Garfield .
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James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. [1]
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James Robert "Jim" Davis (born July 28, 1945) is the creator of the comic strip Garfield.
As a cartoonist, Davis has also worked on Tumbleweeds (as an assistant to Tom Ryan), Gnorm Gnat, U.S. Acres (Orson's Farm outside the United States), and Mr. Potato Head. He is the writer of all the CBS television specials and the direct-to-video movies, as well as a producer/executive producer for Garfield and Friends, the DTV movies, and The Garfield Show. He will be an executive producer for The Garfield Movie.
Jim Davis was born in Marion, Indiana on July 28th, 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 twenty-five cats. Growing up, Davis recalled that after finishing his chores he would spend much of free time drawing; however he admitted his childhood drawings were of such poor quality that if he drew a cow he would have to label his drawing "cow", or else he would later fail to recognize his own work. 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 birth-day on July 28th. Davis attended Fairmount High School in Marion, Indiana and Ball State University in Muncie. While attending Ball State, he became a member of the Theta Xi fraternity.
Ironically, considering his fame as a cartoonist who draws a cat, his first wife Carolyn (Altekruse) was allergic to cats, 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 with his family.
Davis is a former President of the Fairfax, Indiana FFA chapter.
Jim Davis started his first career as cartoonist in December 1962, drawing a comic for the Fairmount High School's student newspaper, The Breeze. The Breeze was run by his school's journalism class, something Davis was a part of. The strip's title is unknown, and no copies are known to survive.
In 1963, Davis contributed to his his Senior Yearbook, The Whirlwind, which potentially reused many of the characters from his lost comic.
Davis' original career plan was to become an art teacher, but during college he switched to a background business instead. In this period, his only published art was in a letters-to-the-editor submission from 1966. After Davis left college, he worked for a local advertising agency and in 1969 began assisting Tom Ryan's comic strip, Tumbleweeds, while maintaining the want for his own comic strip.
In 1973, Davis was hired by an Indiana newspaper, the Pendleton Times, to fill out the Letters to Editor page. The comic he created was Gnorm Gnat, a strip about the daily lives of bugs. It ran from 1973 to 1975. Davis tried to have the comic syndicated nationally several times, but as one editor allegedly told him: "Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs — nobody can relate to bugs!" Years later, Davis would claim the final strip featured Gnorm Gnat being killed off. In actuality, the final comic consisted of Gnorm standing next to bold letters stating "Merry Christmas" while saying "Thanks, Pendleton".
On January 8, 1976, Davis published Jon, a comic about a cartoonist and his personal relationships, most especially with his cat. It was published in The Pendleton Times with a prototype version of Jon Arbuckle, Garfield, Spot (who would become Odie), and Lyman. It would later be renamed Garfield on September 1st, 1977. The comic ended on March 2nd, 1978 with a goodbye letter from Pendleton, announcing that Jim would be syndicating the comic.
On June 19, 1978, Garfield started syndication in forty-one news-papers. The comic continued to grow in popularity. In October 1978, when the Chicago Sun-Times canceled the strip, the newspaper received massive backlash from its readers. Garfield was reinstated, and as it grew to more papers, it quickly became the fastest selling comic strip in the world. Today it is syndicated in 2400 news-papers and is read by approximately 200,000,000 readers each day.
Davis appeared as himself (along with an animated Garfield) in an American Express commercial that was part of the "Do you know me?" campaign.
Davis was featured throughout Happy Birthday, Garfield!.
Garfield and Friends
•Various cops •"Splut"/"Gorsh" voiceover ("Monday Misery") •Jim ("Cutie and the Beast") •Director aka J.D. (except "Mistakes Will Happen" and "Fill-in Feline") •Man in audience ("How to Be Funny") •Buzz #3 ("Astrocat") •Man #2 ("Binky Gets Cancelled Again!") •Cowboy ("The Cactus Saga") •Hot dog vendor ("Five Minute Warning") •First telephone contestant ("Mystery Guest") •Man ("The Garfield Workout") •Adequate Theatre announcer ("Video Airlines") •Customer ("Urban Arbuckle") •Dispatcher ("All Things Fat and Small") •Man ("Cute for Loot") •Cameraman ("Canine Conspiracy")
•Wrote the libretto to Love on a Leash.
•Charles Schulz (Peanuts) and Johnny Hart (B.C.) were Davis' primary inspirations.
•Among Davis' favorite comic strips are Zits, Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, For Better or For Worse, Mother Goose and Grimm, Blondie, Cathy, Beetle Bailey, Pogo, Krazy Kat, Prince Valiant and Steve Canyon.
•Davis has revealed that his father's favorite comic strip was Beetle Bailey ("How's that for awkward?").
•Davis has a dog named Odie and a cat named Nermal.
•In Garfield at 25: In Dog Years I'd be Dead, Davis stated that Garfield in Paradise is his favorite TV special.
•In 30 Years of Laughs & Lasagna: The Life & Times of a Fat, Furry Legend! and Age Happens: Garfield Hits the Big 4-0, Davis lists the June 19, 1978 strip as his personal favorite.
Garfield es el nombre de una tira de prensa creada por Jim Davis, que tiene como protagonistas al gato Garfield, al no muy brillante perro Odie, y a su dueño, el ingenuo Jon Arbuckle (llamado Jon Bonachón en la traducción hispanoamericana y por su nombre original en la española).
James Robert Davis (nacido en Marion, Indiana el 28 de julio de 1945), mejor conocido como Jim Davis, es un dibujante de cómics estadounidense, renombrado por ser el creador de la tira cómica Garfield. Como dibujante, también ha trabajado en las tiras cómicas Tumbleweeds (siendo asistente de Tom….
Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog.
