Jim Davis

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. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jim Davis (cartoonist), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Works

Garfield and Friends

The animated stories of Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, their owner Jon and the trouble they get into. And also Orson the Pig and his adventures on a farm with his fellow farm animals.

Release Date1988-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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Vote Count370

Happy Birthday Garfield

Garfield creator Jim Davis presents a behind-the-scenes 10th-anniversary celebration of the pasta-eating cat.

Release Date1988-05-17

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Charactersd Himself - Host

Stripped

A documentary on comic strips, with never-seen-before interviews from Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes), Jim Davis (Garfield), Jeff Keane (Family Circus), Cathy Guisewite (Cathy) and dozens more. The film asks a central question: Where do comic strips go when newspapers die? Everybody loves comics, but will they survive in a digital world?

Release Date2014-04-01

Charactersd Self

Vote Count22

The Garfield Movie

Garfield, the world-famous, Monday-hating, lasagna-loving indoor cat, is about to have a wild outdoor adventure! After an unexpected reunion with his long-lost father – scruffy street cat Vic – Garfield and his canine friend Odie are forced from their perfectly pampered life into joining Vic in a hilarious, high-stakes heist.

Release Date2024-04-30

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count1306

The Garfield Show

Your favorite lazy, fat cat is at it again. Garfield, Odie, Jon and the rest of the gang are back for more funny misadventures. Whether he's scarfing down lasagna or tricking Nermal the kitten, Garfield is guaranteed to crack you up. But remember: He hates Mondays!

Release Date2009-11-02

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count145

Vote Count101

Garfield

Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't want. Competition.

Release Date2004-06-10

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Vote Count4113

Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties

Jon and Garfield visit the United Kingdom, where a case of mistaken cat identity finds Garfield ruling over a castle. His reign is soon jeopardized by the nefarious Lord Dargis, who has designs on the estate.

Release Date2006-06-15

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Vote Count2268

Garfield's Pet Force

Nothing in the world can make Garfield get involved in anything besides eating, until the muscular super cat Garzooka comes crashing into Cartoon World from the Comic Book universe with terrifying news. Garfield summons up the willpower to join his superhero Garzooka in a fight to save their worlds.

Release Date2009-09-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count102

Garfield Gets Real

Everyone's favorite lazy, lasagna loving, Monday hating orange tabby leaves his exciting star of a popular comic strip world for the real one. But as the novelty wears thin, Garfield begins looking for a way back before his strip is permanently cancelled.

Release Date2008-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count138

Garfield Originals

Garfield Originals is a 2D animated series created by Jim Davis and Philippe Vidal. The series was developed with France's Dargaud Media and Ellipsanime and is the third animated series based on the comic strip Garfield, following Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show. It is similar to Garfield Quickies and The Garfield Shorts, a series of short films containing gags, and was first showcased on Dargaud Media and Mediatoon Distribution's website, then officially announced on the official Garfield website. Garfield Originals has been acquired by ViacomCBS, as part of the company's purchase of the franchise.

Release Date2019-12-06

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Garfield's Fun Fest

Garfield's 29-year winning streak in the annual Fun Fest talent competition is threatened by a dashing new entrant, Ramone, who possesses great charm. Concerned about losing his touch, Garfield goes on a quest to seek Freddy Frog's mythical pond, where it is said that anyone who drinks from it is certain to be funny.

Release Date2008-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count53

Garfield Goes Hollywood

Jon, Garfield and Odie audition for the talent show "Pet Search" in hopes of winning the $1000 prize and a chance at the finals in Hollywood.

Release Date1987-05-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count27

A Garfield Christmas

Garfield, Jon and Odie go to Jon's family farm for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma.

Release Date1987-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobAuthor

Vote Count80

Garfield Gets a Life

Garfield and his owner, Jon Arbuckle, are in a rut. Life for them is a complete bore. They both need a life. Jon tries several unsuccessful times to get a date. Then he attends a class for the personality impaired where he meets a young woman and all seems to be great for Jon, but Garfield starts to feel neglected and left out.

Release Date1991-05-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count22

Garfield's Halloween Adventure

Garfield and his pup pal Odie go trick-or-treating, only to wind up in a house haunted by ghostly pirates.

Release Date1985-10-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count58

Garfield: His 9 Lives

Garfield plays multiple roles including ancient Egyptian royalty, a fairyland kitten, a movie 'stunt cat" and more!

Release Date1988-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count32

Garfield's Thanksgiving

On Thanksgiving, according to Garfield, people celebrate food by eating as much of it as possible. It's a tradition! But that tradition is history following a checkup from vet Liz, who says Garfield must go on a diet.

Release Date1989-11-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count35

Garfield in the Rough

Garfield is taken on a camping trip by Jon, much against his will. A series of very funny disasters follow. But not all is well, as a panther has escaped from the local zoo and is stalking them. Will our hero survive to eat another lasagna and kick Odie off the table again?

Release Date1984-10-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count25

Untitled Garfield Sequel

An animated theatrical motion picture sequel to The Garfield Movie. Plot TBA.

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Garfield In Paradise

Garfield, Odie and Jon go vacationing on a tropical island along with the High Rama Lama of rock and roll, a princess and her cat - and a rumbling volcano.

Release Date1986-05-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count24

Garfield on the Town

Garfield escapes from the car on a trip to the vet and finds the place where he grew up.

Release Date1983-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count26

Garfield Nickelodeon Project

Untitled animated Garfield TV series in the works at Nickelodeon.

DepartmentWriting

JobCharacters

Episode Count1

Garfield and Friends: Dreams & Schemes

After eating a pound of pasta, Garfield sometimes falls asleep and has some pretty wild dreams -- like the one where he's so huge he can climb tall buildings, or where Odie gets his own cartoon, leaving Garfield to just keep sleeping! And this kitty's not so cool he can't get a little scared, like when he, Jon and Odie discover that a closed-down haunted house is really open, or that leftovers occasionally ran rampant in the fridge. Garfield has a big imagination, too, as you'll see when he imagines himself as a fish or a werewolf, or even Jon for a day! There's much more to the fat cat's story, so grab some pasta, flop on the couch and tune in for some cat-toon fun with Garfield!

Release Date2007-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Garfield's Babes and Bullets

Garfield the cat daydreams that he's an old-time private detective.

Release Date1989-05-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count18

Here Comes Garfield

The first TV special starring the rotund comic strip staple Garfield the Cat. Here, he and his dull-witted canine cohort Odie end up at the pound.

Release Date1982-10-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count24

The Fantastic Funnies

In this partially-animated TV special, Loni Anderson salutes the funny pages with interviews with famous cartoonists AND their creations!

Release Date1980-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobComic Book

Garfield: Bringing the Cat to Life

A short documentary on the making of the first live-action Garfield movie.

Release Date2004-10-19

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Garfield as Himself

In HERE COMES GARFIELD, poor, sweet Odie is sent to the pound after he and Garfield are caught trying to annoy a nasty neighbor, and it's up to the fat cat to free the dim-witted pup. In GARFIELD ON THE TOWN, Garfield escapes on a trip to the vet, has a run-in with some alley cats and meets his long-lost mother. Finally, GARFIELD GETS A LIFE finds Garfield, Odie and Jon spicing up their lives with makeovers, dating services and disco dancing.

Release Date2004-06-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1