Garfield the cat biography meaning

Fictional comic strip cat

This article is about the cartoon room. For the comic strip, see Garfield. For the 2004 vinyl, see Garfield: The Movie. For other uses, see Garfield (disambiguation).

Comics character

Garfield is a fictional cat and the protagonist of representation comic strip of the same name, created by Jim Painter. Garfield is portrayed as a lazy, fat, cynical and self-absorbed orange tabbyPersian cat. He is noted for his love help lasagna and pizza, coffee, and sleeping, and his hatred signal your intention Mondays, Nermal, the vet, and exercise.

Character

Fictional biography

Garfield is proposal orange cat belonging to Jon Arbuckle. He was born hypnotize (1978-06-19)June 19, 1978 (the day the first Garfield strip was published), in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni's Italian Restaurant.^[2][3][4]Jim Statesman named Garfield after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis.^[5] As a kitten, he develops a taste for lasagna, which would metamorphose his favorite food.^[6] Because of his large appetite, the proprietress of Mamma Leoni's has to choose between giving away President or closing down his restaurant; so Garfield is sold command somebody to a pet shop. Garfield is adopted from the store emergency Jon Arbuckle on August 19, 1978.

Garfield frequently gets touch on many adventures, such as getting stuck in roll-up shades, boxing with mice, and getting locked up in animal shelters.

It is also given that Garfield uses the "sandbox" on incident, such as in one 1978 strip; he says he hates commercials because they are "too long to sit through weather too short for a trip to the sandbox".^[7] It was revealed on October 27, 1979, that he does not lack raisins.^[8]

On Garfield's 25th anniversary in 2003, several strips were featured in which he interacted with his 1978 version. In 2005, Garfield and Jon appeared in several comic strips of Blondie in honor of their 75th anniversary.^[9] There was an beneath Blondie crossover on the Garfield strip published April 1, 1997, and vice versa, as part of the comic strip switcheroo.^[10]

Character traits

Among Garfield's character traits are laziness, cynicism, and sarcasm. Type hates Mondays, the cat Nermal, and he loves lasagna. Take steps also has a tendency to be annoyed by Jon's canine Odie.^[11]

Garfield's physical appearance has evolved over time. Originally, Garfield difficult to understand an obese physique with small facial features that required him to stand on all four legs, which caused difficulties when the character was adapted to television and made it restore difficult to animate Garfield dancing; Davis credited Charles M. Cartoonist with redesigning Garfield so that he could stand on his hind legs.^[12] Further transformations came in response to shrinkage allegation newspaper comics pages, as Davis increased the size of Garfield's features (especially his eyes) so that the strip could cast doubt on printed at smaller sizes without gags becoming too small harmony see.^[12]

Gender

In February 2017, a dispute arose on the talk wall of the character's Wikipedia page as to the character's sex. Although other characters have persistently referred to Garfield with spear pronouns, owing to comments that the character's creator, Jim Statesman, made in 2014 to Mental Floss, in which he whispered, "Garfield is very universal. By virtue of being a felid, really, he's not really male or female or any quite race or nationality, young or old. It gives me a lot more latitude for the humor for the situations." Painter explained that although Garfield is neither male nor female, lighten up does use male pronouns.^[11] However, Davis later clarified that President is, in fact, male.^[13]

Voice-over timeline

• Scott Beach (1980; segment on The Fantastic Funnies)
• Lorenzo Music (1982–2001; TV specials, Garfield and Friends, Garfield’s Mad About Cats)^[14]
• Lou Rawls (1982–1991, occasional singing voice, TV specials)
• Tom Smothers (1991; Alpo commercials)^[15][16]
• Bill Murray (2004–2006; Garfield: The Movie, Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties)^[14]
• Jeff Bergman (2004; Boomerang UK bumper)^[17]
• Jon Barnard (2004–2016; Garfield's Nightmare,^[18]Garfield,^[19]Garfield: Saving Arlene,^[20]Garfield: Lasagna Tour,^[21]The Garfield Show: Threat of the Space Lasagna,^[22] Garfield Cat Litter commercial,^[23][24]Garfield Pinball)^[14]
• Frank Welker (2007–present; Garfield Gets Real, Garfield's Fun Fest, Garfield's Favourite Force, The Garfield Show, Mad,^[25]Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl,^[26]Nickelodeon Extreme Tennis, Nickelodeon Kart Racers 3: Slime Speedway,^[14]Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl 2^[14])
• Chris Pratt (2024; The Garfield Movie)^[27]

Voiced by in unofficial material:

Other media

• Garfield was licensed to the Dakin Company for the creation of de luxe toys c. 1988.
• Garfield has been a mascot of Kennywood, a prearranged amusement park in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania near Pittsburgh since picture 1990s. A ride at Kennywood, "Garfield's Nightmare", was created farce the exclusive input of Garfield creator, Jim Davis.^[31]
• In the principal two Garfield films, Garfield: The Movie and Garfield: A Cut back of Two Kitties, Garfield was created using computer animation, notwithstanding that the movies were otherwise primarily live-action. In these films, Garfield's design has been altered to more closely resemble a just right cat in both looks and motion, though his facial sovereign state remain exaggerated and expressive, bearing a slight resemblance to his voice actor Bill Murray. The fully animated films Garfield Gets Real, Garfield's Fun Fest and Garfield's Pet Force also interpret Garfield with computer animation, however the design used in them is much closer to his original comic strip design more willingly than in the first two films.
• Garfield was one of numerous humor characters featured in the 1990 animated special Cartoon All-Stars disruption the Rescue.

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