Jim Davis

JIM DAVIS (Marion, Indiana, 1945).
"Garfield (Original sketch)."
Pencil on paper.
Features dry stamp on the back of the comic book production company PAWS IN.
Reference Sketeh- 00-0249.
Signed in the lower right corner.
Measurements: 28 x 22 cm.
American cartoonist, screenwriter and producer, Jim Davis is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978.
Garfield is one of the most widely distributed comic strips in the world. Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield television specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced Garfield and Friends. Jon's first strip, which ran in the Pendleton Times on January 8, 1976.
From January 1976 to February 1978, Davis published a weekly strip titled Jon in The Pendleton Times, starring young bachelor Jon Arbuckle and his lethargic, cynical house cat Garfield; the latter's growing popularity with both editors and readers led Davis to rename the strip Garfield on September 1, 1977.