Garfield was created by American cartoonist Jim Davis, who launched the comic strip in 1978 after first running an earlier version called Jon in the mid‑1970s.

Who created Garfield?

  • Garfield is an American comic strip created by cartoonist Jim Davis from Marion, Indiana.
  • The character is a lazy, lasagna‑loving orange tabby cat whose popularity turned the strip into one of the world’s most widely syndicated comics.

How and when Garfield started

  • Davis first developed the concept in a strip called Jon around 1976, focusing on Jon Arbuckle, Garfield’s owner, before shifting the spotlight to the cat himself and renaming it Garfield.
  • The strip entered nationwide syndication in 1978 and quickly spread to thousands of newspapers worldwide.

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