Garfield Classics. The Garfield Classics imprint has been in print since 2001, and reprints Garfields first 36 books in a remastered format, with increased page. Pixelmon, a robust Pokmonthemed modification for Minecraft released in 2012, can no longer be downloaded. The developers say the take down is the result of a. Garfield Wikipedia. Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since 1. Garfield Jon, his owner and Jons dog, Odie. As of 2. 01. 3, it was syndicated in roughly 2,5. Guinness World Record for being the worlds most widely syndicatedcomic strip. Though this is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield is set in Muncie, Indiana, the home of Jim Davis, according to the television special Happy Birthday, Garfield. Common themes in the strip include Garfields laziness, obsessive eating, coffee, and disdain of Mondays and diets. The strips focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but other recurring minor characters appear as well. Originally created with the intentions to come up with a good, marketable character,2Garfield has spawned merchandise earning 7. In addition to the various merchandise and commercial tie ins, the strip has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature length live actionCGI animated films, and three fully CGI animated direct to video movies. Part of the strips broad pop cultural appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary though this was Daviss original intention, he also admitted that his grasp of politics isnt strong, joking that, for many years, he thought OPEC was a denture adhesive. HistoryeditIn the 1. Davis created a comic strip called Gnorm Gnat, which met with little success. One editor said, his art was good, his gags were great, but that nobody can identify with Bugs. Davis decided to take a long, hard look at the comics and he saw that dogs were doing very well, but there were no cats at the time. Garfield Gets Real Video Download' title='Garfield Gets Real Video Download' />Davis figured that since he had grown up on a farm with 2. He then proceeded to create a new strip with a cat as its main character and thus created Garfield, who borrows the first letter of his name from Daviss earlier work. Garfield originally consisted of four main characters. Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis was around growing up he took his name and personality from Daviss grandfather, James A. Garfield Davis,6 who was, in Daviss words, a large, cantankerous man. Jon Arbuckle came from a 1. Odie was based on a car dealership commercial written by Davis, which featured Odie the Village Idiot. Early on in the strip, Odies owner was a man named Lyman. He was written in to give Jon someone to talk with. Davis later realized that Garfield and Jon could communicate nonverbally. The strip, originally centered on Jon, was first rejected by the King Features, Post Hall and the Chicago Tribune New York News agencies, all of which asked Davis to focus on the cat, who in their opinion, got the better lines. United Feature Syndicate accepted the retooled strip in 1. June 1. 97 of that year however, after a test run, the Chicago Sun Times dropped it, only to reinstate it after readers complaints. Garfields first Sunday page ran on June 2. March 2. 2, 1. 98. A half page debuted the following Sunday, March 2. March 1. 41. 2 and 2. UFS curtailed further use of it it did, however, allow Davis to use the format for his U. S. Acres strip. The appearance of the characters gradually changed over time. The left panel is taken from the March 7, 1. July 6, 1. 99. 0 strip. The strip underwent stylistic changes, evolving from the realistic style of the 1. This change has mainly affected Garfields design, which underwent a Darwinian evolution in which he began walking on his hind legs, slimmed down, and stopped looking. His evolution, according to Davis, was to make it easier to push Odie off the table or reach for a piece of pie. Jon also underwent physiological changes. He now looks older than in the 1. Garfield quickly became a commercial success. In 1. 98. 1, less than three years after its release, the strip appeared in 8. To manage the merchandise, Davis founded Paws, Inc. By 2. 00. 2, Garfield became the worlds most syndicated strip, appearing in 2,5. Garfield appeared in nearly 2,6. In 1. 99. 4, Daviss company, Paws, Inc., purchased all rights to the strips from 1. United Feature. The strip is currently distributed by Universal Press Syndicate, while rights for the strip remain with Paws. While retaining creative control and being the only signer, Davis now only writes and usually does the rough sketches. Since the late 1. Watch The Hole Movie Duel Masters. Brett Koth and Gary Barker. Inking and coloring work is done by other artists, while Davis spends most of the time supervising production and merchandising the characters. MarketingeditGarfield was originally created by Davis with the intention to come up with a good, marketable character. Now the worlds most syndicated comic strip, Garfield has spawned a profusion2 of merchandise including clothing, toys, games, books, Caribbean cruises, credit cards, dolls,1. DVDs of the movies or the TV series,1. InterneteditGarfield. Jim Davis has also collaborated with Ball State University and Pearson Digital Learning to create Professor Garfield, an educational website with interactive games focusing on math and reading skills, and with Childrens Technology Group to create Mind. Walker, a web browser that allows parents to limit the websites their children can view to a pre set list. A variety of edited Garfield strips have been made available on the Internet, some hosted on their own unofficial, dedicated sites. Dating from 2. 00. Garfield Randomizer created a three panel strip using panels from previous Garfield strips. Another approach, known as Silent Garfield,2. Garfields thought balloons from the strips. Some examples date from 2. A webcomic called Arbuckle does the above but also redraws the originals in a different art style. The Arbuckle website creator writes Garfield changes from being a comic about a sassy, corpulent feline, and becomes a compelling picture of a lonely, pathetic, delusional man who talks to his pets. Consider that Jon, according to Garfield canon, cannot hear his cats thoughts. This is the world as he sees it. This is his story. Another variation along the same lines, called Realfield or Realistic Garfield, is to redraw Garfield as a real cat as well as removing his thought balloons. Still another approach to editing the strips involves removing Garfield and other main characters from the originals completely, leaving Jon talking to himself. While strips in this vein can be found online as early as 2. Garfield Minus Garfield by Dan Walsh received enough online attention to be covered by news media. Reception was largely positive at its peak, the site received as many as 3. Fans connected with Jons loneliness and desperation and found his crazy antics humorous Jim Davis himself called Walshs strips an inspired thing to do and said that some of the strips work better than the originals. Ballantine Books, which publishes the Garfield books, released a volume of Garfield Minus Garfield strips on October 2. The volume retains Davis as author and features a foreword by Walsh. TelevisioneditGarfields animation debut was on The Fantastic Funnies, which aired on CBS in May 1. Scott Beach. Garfield was one of the strips featured, introduced as a newcomer the strip was only two years old at the time. From 1. 98. 2 to 1. Garfield cartoon specials and one hour long primetime documentary celebrating the characters 1. Lorenzo Music voiced Garfield in all of them. A television cartoon show, Garfield and Friends, aired for seven seasons from 1. Music as the voice of Garfield. The Garfield Show, a CGI series, started development in 2. It premiered in France in December 2. U. S. debut on Cartoon Network on November 2, 2. Garfield The Movie was released in theaters on June 1. Its sequel, Garfield A Tail of Two Kitties, was released on June 1. Three direct to video films were released, Garfield Gets Real on August 9, 2.