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{{Short description|American cartoonist and creator of Garfield | {{Short description|American cartoonist and creator of Garfield}} | ||
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| image = James R. Davis.jpg | | image = James R. Davis.jpg | ||
| caption = Davis in 2010 | | caption = Davis in 2010 | ||
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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|7|28|mf=yes}} | | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1945|7|28|mf=yes}} | ||
| birth_place = [[Marion, Indiana]], U.S. | | birth_place = [[Marion, Indiana]], U.S. | ||
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==Early and personal life== | ==Early and personal life== | ||
[[File:Jim Davis (Yearbook Portrait 1962).jpg|Davis' yearbook photo, 1962|thumb|left|200px]] | [[File:Jim Davis (Yearbook Portrait 1962).jpg|Davis' yearbook photo, 1962|thumb|left|200px]] | ||
James Robert Davis was born in [[Marion, Indiana]], on July 28, 1945.<ref>{{Cite book |last=De Weyer |first=Geert |title=100 stripklassiekers die niet in je boekenkast mogen ontbreken |publisher=Atlas |year=2008 |isbn=978-90-450-0996-4 |location=[[Amsterdam]] / [[Antwerp]] |page=244 |language=nl}}</ref> | James Robert Davis was born in [[Marion, Indiana]], on July 28, 1945.<ref>{{Cite book |last=De Weyer |first=Geert |title=100 stripklassiekers die niet in je boekenkast mogen ontbreken |publisher=Atlas |year=2008 |isbn=978-90-450-0996-4 |location=[[Amsterdam]] / [[Antwerp]] |page=244 |language=nl}}</ref> He grew up on a small Black Angus cow farm<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jim Davis Bio |url=https://premierespeakers.com/jim-davis/bio |access-date=October 5, 2020 |website=Premiere Speakers Bureau |archive-date=December 2, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201202222813/https://premierespeakers.com/jim-davis/bio |url-status=live }}</ref> in [[Fairmount, Indiana]], with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine "Betty" Davis (née Carter), and his brother Dave. Davis's childhood on a farm parallels the life of Garfield's owner, [[Jon Arbuckle]], who was also raised on a farm with his parents and a brother, Doc Boy, and is also a cartoonist whose birthday is on July 28. Davis attended [[Ball State University]] where he studied art and business; one of his fellow students was [[David Letterman]]. At Ball State he became a member of the [[Theta Xi]] [[Fraternities and sororities|fraternity]]. | ||
At Fairmount High School in 1959, Davis joined the staff of his school's newspaper ''The Breeze'', where he became Art Editor. Here his first comic was featured, apparently inspired by school life. Davis also drew the majority of the illustrations for his 1963 senior yearbook, using the same characters.<ref>{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG6y6FkMEQ4&t=47s |title=My Garfield Vacation: A Historical Voyage |date=June 12, 2020 |type=Video |publisher=Quinton Reviews |access-date=June 12, 2020 |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211211/IG6y6FkMEQ4 |archive-date=December 11, 2021 |url-status=live |via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=0 Pre-Pendleton |url=https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BY8LbndpcUiRQeaF4kJ9Z53S_JXJYpYM |access-date=October 5, 2020 |via=[[Google Drive]] |archive-date=June 6, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200606004016/https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BY8LbndpcUiRQeaF4kJ9Z53S_JXJYpYM |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
Davis has been married twice. | Davis has been married twice. He was married to Carolyn Altekruse, who was allergic to cats;<ref name="Time">{{Cite magazine |date=December 7, 1981 |title=Those Catty Cartoonists |url=https://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,953256-2,00.html |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |access-date=June 6, 2020 |archive-date=April 30, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220430130011/http://content.time.com/time/subscriber/article/0,33009,953256-2,00.html |url-status=live }}</ref> the couple owned a dog named Molly.<ref name="everything2">{{Cite web |title=Jim Davis - Everything2.com |url=http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Jim+Davis |website=Everything2.com |access-date=November 16, 2017 |archive-date=November 17, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171117070030/https://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Jim+Davis |url-status=live }}</ref> They have a son.<ref name="Time" /> On July 16, 2000, Davis married Jill, who had two children from a previous marriage.<ref name="everything2" /> | ||
Davis joined the faculty of [[Ball State University]] in Muncie as an adjunct professor in fall 2006, lecturing on the creative and business aspects of the comics industry. | Davis joined the faculty of [[Ball State University]] in Muncie as an adjunct professor in fall 2006, lecturing on the creative and business aspects of the comics industry. | ||
Davis resides in [[Albany, Indiana]], where he and his staff produce ''Garfield'' under his [[Paws, Inc.]] | Davis resides in [[Albany, Indiana]], where he and his staff produce ''Garfield'' under his company [[Paws, Inc.]], which he founded in 1981.<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 25, 2022 |title=Jim Davis |url=https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/artists/jim-davis/ |access-date=January 25, 2022 |website=[[The Saturday Evening Post]] |archive-date=January 25, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220125225220/https://www.saturdayeveningpost.com/artists/jim-davis/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Paws, Inc. employs nearly 50 artists and licensing administrators, who manage ''Garfield'''s worldwide licensing, syndication, and entertainment empire. | ||
Davis is a former president of the Fairmount, Indiana [[National FFA Organization|FFA]] | Davis is a former president of the Fairmount, Indiana chapter of the [[National FFA Organization|FFA]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=National FFA Organization Prominent Members |url=https://www.ffa.org/documents/about_prominentmembers.pdf |publisher=National F.F.A. Organization |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100713074526/http://www.ffa.org/documents/about_prominentmembers.pdf |archive-date=July 13, 2010}}</ref> | ||
In December 2019, Davis announced that he would | In December 2019, Davis announced that he would hold weekly auctions for all hand-painted ''[[Garfield]]'' comics made from 1978 to 2011. He explained that he started drawing comics digitally using a [[graphics tablet]] in 2011. Older comics remained sealed in a climate-controlled safe, and Davis had to figure out what to do with them.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Muncy |first=Julie |date=December 21, 2019 |title=Garfield Cartoonist Jim Davis Is Putting 30 Years of Strips Up for Auction |url=https://io9.gizmodo.com/garfield-cartoonist-jim-davis-is-putting-30-years-of-st-1840579280 |access-date=December 23, 2019 |website=io9 |language=en-us |archive-date=December 22, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191222204848/https://io9.gizmodo.com/garfield-cartoonist-jim-davis-is-putting-30-years-of-st-1840579280 |url-status=live }}</ref> | ||
==Career== | ==Career== | ||
Before creating Garfield, Davis worked for an advertising agency. In 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan on ''[[Tumbleweeds (comic strip)|Tumbleweeds]]''. He then created his own comic strip, ''[[Gnorm Gnat]]'', that ran weekly from 1973 to 1975 in ''The [[Pendleton, Indiana|Pendleton]] Times''.<ref name="Quinton" /> When Davis tried to sell it to a national comic strip [[syndicate]], an editor told him: "Your art is good, your 'gags' are 'great', but bugs—nobody can relate to bugs!"<ref>Davis, Jim. ''20 Years & Still Kicking!: Garfield's Twentieth Anniversary Collection''. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998, p. 14.</ref> He then began studying the comic strips; still believing that animals were funny, he noticed in ''[[Peanuts]]'' that [[Snoopy]] was not only a [[scene stealer]] but was a far greater marketing success than [[Charlie Brown]]. Believing that the comic market was oversaturated with dogs, he decided instead to create a cat as a main character for his next strip.<ref name="wapocat">{{Cite magazine |last=Shapiro |first=Walter |date=December 12, 1982 |title=Lives: The Cat That Rots the Intellect |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1982/12/12/lives-the-cat-that-rots-the-intellect/d6ed28c6-bee3-41ad-81f2-1839b34b87b1/ |magazine=[[The Washington Post]] |access-date=June 23, 2019 |archive-date=June 23, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190623024810/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1982/12/12/lives-the-cat-that-rots-the-intellect/d6ed28c6-bee3-41ad-81f2-1839b34b87b1/ |url-status=live }}</ref> | |||
[[File:Jon - 1976-01-08.png|alt=The first strip from Jon, 1976|thumb|The first ''Jon'' strip, which ran in the ''Pendleton Times'' on January 8, 1976]] | [[File:Jon - 1976-01-08.png|alt=The first strip from Jon, 1976|thumb|The first ''Jon'' strip, which ran in the ''Pendleton Times'' on January 8, 1976]] | ||
From January 1976 to February 1978, Davis | From January 1976 to February 1978, Davis published a weekly strip titled ''Jon'' in ''The Pendleton Times'', starring the young bachelor [[Jon Arbuckle]] and his lethargic, cynical housecat Garfield; the latter's increasing popularity among both editors and readers led Davis to rename the strip ''Garfield'' on September 1, 1977. ''Garfield'' began syndication in 41 newspapers on June 19, 1978.<ref name="Quinton">{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPidZP_3X8 |title=Finding Garfield Lost Media |date=July 28, 2019 |type=Video |publisher=Quinton Reviews |access-date=July 29, 2019 |archive-date=August 1, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190801024533/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSPidZP_3X8 |url-status=live }}</ref> As of 2008, it appeared in 2,580 newspapers and was read by 300 million readers every day.<ref name="BW1">{{Cite press release |date=January 22, 2002 |title=Garfield Named World's Most Syndicated Comic Strip. |publisher=[[Business Wire]] |location=Kansas City, Missouri |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Jan_22/ai_82001296 |url-status=dead |access-date=July 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090121005601/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2002_Jan_22/ai_82001296 |archive-date=January 21, 2009}}</ref> | ||
In March 1986, Davis launched the barnyard | In March 1986, Davis launched the barnyard comic strip ''[[U.S. Acres]]'', known outside the U.S. as ''Orson's Farm''. It failed to match the success of ''Garfield'', and was concluded on May 1, 1989; Davis' assistant Brett Koth was credited as a co-artist during its final year. From 2000 to 2003, Davis and Koth created a strip based on the [[Mr. Potato Head]] toy. | ||
Davis founded the Professor Garfield Foundation to support children's literacy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TRC About Us: Professor Garfield |url=http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/about/about.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714190628/http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/about/about.html |archive-date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=December 15, 2013 |website=ProfessorGarfield.org}}</ref> | Davis founded the Professor Garfield Foundation to support children's literacy.<ref>{{Cite web |title=TRC About Us: Professor Garfield |url=http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/about/about.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100714190628/http://www.professorgarfield.org/parents_teachers/about/about.html |archive-date=July 14, 2010 |access-date=December 15, 2013 |website=ProfessorGarfield.org}}</ref> | ||
His influences include [[Mort Walker]]'s ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' and ''[[Hi and Lois]]'', [[Charles M. Schulz]]'s ''[[Peanuts]]'', [[Milton Caniff]]'s ''[[Steve Canyon]]'' and [[Johnny Hart]]'s ''[[B.C. (comic strip)|B.C]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ashton |date=November 9, 2012 |title=Interview with Jim Davis |url=http://blog.calendars.com/2012/11/interview-with-jim-davis/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225005336/http://blog.calendars.com/2012/11/interview-with-jim-davis/ |archive-date=February 25, 2014 |access-date=February 20, 2014 |publisher=Calendars.com}}</ref> | His influences include [[Mort Walker]]'s ''[[Beetle Bailey]]'' and ''[[Hi and Lois]]'', [[Charles M. Schulz]]'s ''[[Peanuts]]'', [[Milton Caniff]]'s ''[[Steve Canyon]]'' and [[Johnny Hart]]'s ''[[B.C. (comic strip)|B.C]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ashton |date=November 9, 2012 |title=Interview with Jim Davis |url=http://blog.calendars.com/2012/11/interview-with-jim-davis/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140225005336/http://blog.calendars.com/2012/11/interview-with-jim-davis/ |archive-date=February 25, 2014 |access-date=February 20, 2014 |publisher=Calendars.com}}</ref> Schulz became a valuable mentor to Davis; Davis credited Schulz with redesigning Garfield to his modern, bipedal form to allow him to perform physical gags, while the two were working on television specials featuring their respective strips in the early 1980s.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Wood |first=Robert |date=2024-12-17 |title=Peanuts' Charles Schulz Redesigned Garfield For a Touching Reason |url=https://screenrant.com/garfield-peanuts-charles-schulz-snoopy-dancing-davis-factoid/ |access-date=2024-12-29 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Tardive |first=Ambrose |date=2024-06-19 |title=Peanuts vs. Garfield: Charles Schulz Secretly Considered Jim Davis His Arch-Rival |url=https://screenrant.com/peanuts-garfield-charles-schulz-jim-davis-rivalry/ |access-date=2024-06-21 |website=ScreenRant |language=en}}</ref> Davis dispelled a claim by [[David Michaelis]] that Schulz held any ill will toward Davis in the wake of ''Garfield's'' success.<ref name=":0" /> | ||
From 1984 | From 1984 to 2001, Davis owned a fine-dining restaurant in Muncie called Foxfires. He closed it after its head chef was hired elsewhere.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/253372237/ | title=Foxfires plans to close its doors for good next week | work=The Star Press | date=April 13, 2001 | access-date=November 28, 2023 | author=Brian Saparnis | pages=5C}}</ref> | ||
In 2019, Davis sold Paws, Inc. to the mass media conglomerate [[Viacom (2005–2019)|Viacom]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whitten |first=Sarah |date=August 6, 2019 |title=Viacom Buys Lasagna-Loving Garfield for Nickelodeon |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/garfield-bought-by-viacom-for-nickelodeon.html |access-date=October 5, 2020 |publisher=[[CNBC]] |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930031440/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/garfield-bought-by-viacom-for-nickelodeon.html |url-status=live }}</ref> which months later merged with [[CBS Corporation]] to form ViacomCBS (now [[Paramount Global]]). | In 2019, Davis sold Paws, Inc. to the mass media conglomerate [[Viacom (2005–2019)|Viacom]],<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whitten |first=Sarah |date=August 6, 2019 |title=Viacom Buys Lasagna-Loving Garfield for Nickelodeon |url=https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/garfield-bought-by-viacom-for-nickelodeon.html |access-date=October 5, 2020 |publisher=[[CNBC]] |archive-date=September 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200930031440/https://www.cnbc.com/2019/08/06/garfield-bought-by-viacom-for-nickelodeon.html |url-status=live }}</ref> which months later merged with [[CBS Corporation]] to form ViacomCBS (now [[Paramount Global]]). | ||
In 2019, Davis offered more than 11,000 hand-drawn ''Garfield'' comic strips from 1978 to 2011 for auction by [[Heritage Auctions]], at the rate of two daily strips a week.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2019-12-21 |title=30-plus years of ‘Garfield’ comic strips to sell at auction |url=https://apnews.com/article/4405538b55a97d8cc52ed3315dfda4ca |access-date=2025-02-07 |website=AP News |language=en}}</ref> | |||
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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] Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head.
Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced Garfield and Friends, a series which also aired on CBS from 1988 to 1994. Davis was the writer and executive producer for a series of CGI direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as an executive producer for the CGI animated TV series The Garfield Show and Garfield Originals.
Early and personal life
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James Robert Davis was born in Marion, Indiana, on July 28, 1945.[2] He grew up on a small Black Angus cow farm[3] in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James William Davis, mother Anna Catherine "Betty" Davis (née Carter), and his brother Dave. Davis's childhood on a farm parallels the life of Garfield's owner, Jon Arbuckle, who was also raised on a farm with his parents and a brother, Doc Boy, and is also a cartoonist whose birthday is on July 28. Davis attended Ball State University where he studied art and business; one of his fellow students was David Letterman. At Ball State he became a member of the Theta Xi fraternity.
At Fairmount High School in 1959, Davis joined the staff of his school's newspaper The Breeze, where he became Art Editor. Here his first comic was featured, apparently inspired by school life. Davis also drew the majority of the illustrations for his 1963 senior yearbook, using the same characters.[4][5]
Davis has been married twice. He was married to Carolyn Altekruse, who was allergic to cats;[6] the couple owned a dog named Molly.[7] They have a son.[6] On July 16, 2000, Davis married Jill, who had two children from a previous marriage.[7]
Davis joined the faculty of Ball State University in Muncie as an adjunct professor in fall 2006, lecturing on the creative and business aspects of the comics industry.
Davis resides in Albany, Indiana, where he and his staff produce Garfield under his company Paws, Inc., which he founded in 1981.[8] Paws, Inc. employs nearly 50 artists and licensing administrators, who manage Garfield's worldwide licensing, syndication, and entertainment empire.
Davis is a former president of the Fairmount, Indiana chapter of the FFA.[9]
In December 2019, Davis announced that he would hold weekly auctions for all hand-painted Garfield comics made from 1978 to 2011. He explained that he started drawing comics digitally using a graphics tablet in 2011. Older comics remained sealed in a climate-controlled safe, and Davis had to figure out what to do with them.[10]
Career
Before creating Garfield, Davis worked for an advertising agency. In 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan on Tumbleweeds. He then created his own comic strip, Gnorm Gnat, that ran weekly from 1973 to 1975 in The Pendleton Times.[11] When Davis tried to sell it to a national comic strip syndicate, an editor told him: "Your art is good, your 'gags' are 'great', but bugs—nobody can relate to bugs!"[12] He then began studying the comic strips; still believing that animals were funny, he noticed in Peanuts that Snoopy was not only a scene stealer but was a far greater marketing success than Charlie Brown. Believing that the comic market was oversaturated with dogs, he decided instead to create a cat as a main character for his next strip.[13]
From January 1976 to February 1978, Davis published a weekly strip titled Jon in The Pendleton Times, starring the young bachelor Jon Arbuckle and his lethargic, cynical housecat Garfield; the latter's increasing popularity among both editors and readers led Davis to rename the strip Garfield on September 1, 1977. Garfield began syndication in 41 newspapers on June 19, 1978.[11] As of 2008, it appeared in 2,580 newspapers and was read by 300 million readers every day.[14]
In March 1986, Davis launched the barnyard comic strip U.S. Acres, known outside the U.S. as Orson's Farm. It failed to match the success of Garfield, and was concluded on May 1, 1989; Davis' assistant Brett Koth was credited as a co-artist during its final year. From 2000 to 2003, Davis and Koth created a strip based on the Mr. Potato Head toy.
Davis founded the Professor Garfield Foundation to support children's literacy.[15]
His influences include Mort Walker's Beetle Bailey and Hi and Lois, Charles M. Schulz's Peanuts, Milton Caniff's Steve Canyon and Johnny Hart's B.C.[16] Schulz became a valuable mentor to Davis; Davis credited Schulz with redesigning Garfield to his modern, bipedal form to allow him to perform physical gags, while the two were working on television specials featuring their respective strips in the early 1980s.[17][18] Davis dispelled a claim by David Michaelis that Schulz held any ill will toward Davis in the wake of Garfield's success.[17]
From 1984 to 2001, Davis owned a fine-dining restaurant in Muncie called Foxfires. He closed it after its head chef was hired elsewhere.[19]
In 2019, Davis sold Paws, Inc. to the mass media conglomerate Viacom,[20] which months later merged with CBS Corporation to form ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global).
In 2019, Davis offered more than 11,000 hand-drawn Garfield comic strips from 1978 to 2011 for auction by Heritage Auctions, at the rate of two daily strips a week.[21]
Awards
| Year | Award | Presenting organization and sciences |
|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Golden Plate Award[22][23] | American Academy of Achievement |
| 1984–85 | Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Garfield in the Rough, TV special, CBS | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| 1985 | Elzie Segar Award for Contributions to Cartooning | National Cartoonist Society |
| 1986 | Outstanding Animated Program, Garfield's Halloween Adventure, TV special, CBS | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| 1986 | Best Strip | National Cartoonist Society |
| 1988–89 | Emmy Award, Outstanding Animated Program, Garfield's Babes and Bullets, TV special, CBS | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| 1988 | Sagamore of the Wabash | State of Indiana |
| 1989 | Reuben Award for Overall Excellence in Cartooning | National Cartoonist Society |
| 1989 | Indiana Arbor Day Spokesman Award (presented to Jim Davis and Garfield) | Indiana Division of Natural Resources and Forestry |
| 1990 | Good Steward Award (presented to Jim Davis and Garfield) | National Arbor Day Foundation |
| 1991 | Indiana Journalism Award (presented to Jim Davis and Garfield) | Ball State University Department of Journalism |
| 1992 | Distinguished Hoosier | State of Indiana |
| 1995 | Project Award | National Arbor Day Foundation |
| 1997 | LVA Leadership Award (presented to Paws) | Literacy Volunteers of America |
| 2016 | Inkpot Award (presented to Jim Davis)[24] | San Diego Comic-Con |
References
Further reading
- Bruce McCabe, "The Man Who Put Garfield on Top", The Boston Globe, March 8, 1987.
External links
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