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Garfield On The Town
''Garfield on the Town'' is a 1983 animated television special, directed by Phil Roman and based on the '' Garfield'' comic strip by Jim Davis. It once again starred Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield (who also co-wrote the special with Davis), and also featured the voices of Thom Huge, Gregg Berger and Julie Payne. The special was first broadcast on October 28, 1983, on CBS. It won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program and has been released on LaserDisc and DVD. This is the second of twelve Garfield television specials made between 1982 and 1991. Plot Jon Arbuckle becomes concerned about Garfield and his behavior after he and Odie mess up his house at the beginning of the special. Jon drives Garfield to the pet hospital, but Garfield accidentally falls out of Jon's car and ends up getting lost downtown. Garfield runs into a large gang of unfriendly alley cats known as the Claws. After Garfield antagonizes the gang's leader, he flees into an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Davis (cartoonist)
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''. Early and personal life James Robert Davis was born in Marion, Indiana, on July 28, 1945. He grew up on a small Black Angus cow farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his father James Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garfield
''Garfield'' is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis. Originally published locally as ''Jon'' in 1976 (later changed to ''Garfield'' in 1977), then in nationwide Print syndication, syndication from 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield (character), Garfield the cat, Odie the dog, and their owner Jon Arbuckle. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and Magazine, journals; the comic held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely Print syndication, syndicated comic strip. Though its setting is rarely mentioned in print, ''Garfield'' takes place in Davis's hometown of Muncie, Indiana, according to the television special ''Happy Birthday, Garfield''. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, love of coffee and lasagna, disdain of Mondays, and dieting. Garfield is also shown to manipulate people to get whatever he wants. The strip's focus is mostly on the intera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sandy Kenyon
Sandy Kenyon (born Sanford Klein; August 5, 1922 – February 20, 2010) was an American actor of film and television. He appeared as a guest actor on numerous television series, including a recurring role on the 1961 TV series, ''The Americans''. He was also the original voice of Jon Arbuckle, voicing the character in the first ''Garfield'' special ''Here Comes Garfield''. Early years Kenyon was born in The Bronx, New York, and served as a pilot in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II. Career Kenyon co-starred as Des Smith in the syndicated television drama ''Crunch and Des'' (1956), and portrayed Cashbox Potter in the syndicated adventure series ''Major Del Conway of the Flying Tigers'' (1953). Among the many television series in which he guest starred are the westerns: ''The Rifleman'', '' Colt .45'', '' Yancy Derringer'', '' Have Gun-Will Travel'', '' The Tall Man'', ''Gunsmoke'', and ''Bonanza''. In 1960, Kenyon was cast as a pre-presidential Abraham Lincoln in the ep ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Film Roman
Film Roman, LLC, is an American animation studio currently based in Woodland Hills, California and formerly in Burbank. It was previously owned by Starz Inc., which is now a division of Lionsgate, and currently by Waterman Entertainment, the production company of producer Steve Waterman. Founded by veteran animator and director Phil Roman on October 26, 1984, it is best known for providing animation for the ''Garfield'' primetime specials, based on Jim Davis' comic strip of the same name. The studio also produced the animated series ''The Simpsons'', ''The Critic'', ''King of the Hill'', ''Family Guy'', ''Wow! Wow! Wubbzy!'', '' The Goode Family'', and '' Dan Vs.''. History Background Phil Roman, veteran alumnus of MGM Animation/Visual Arts and Bill Melendez Productions, founded Film Roman on October 26, 1984 as a means to continue the production of the ''Garfield'' television specials, since Melendez's own studio was unable to work on both the ''Peanuts'' and ''G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peanuts
''Peanuts'' (briefly subtitled ''featuring Good ol' Charlie Brown'') is a print syndication, syndicated daily strip, daily and Sunday strip, Sunday American comic strip written and illustrated by Charles M. Schulz. The strip's original run extended from 1950 to 2000, continuing in reruns afterward. ''Peanuts'' is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips, with 17,897 strips published in all, making it "arguably the longest story ever told by one human being". At the time of Schulz's death in 2000, ''Peanuts'' ran in over 2,600 newspapers, with a readership of roughly 355 million across 75 countries, and had been translated into 21 languages. It helped to cement the Yonkoma, four-panel gag strip as the standard in the United States, and together with its merchandise earned Schulz more than $1 billion. Following successful TV and theatrical adaptations over the years, a The Peanuts Movie, movie adaptation was released by Blue Sky Studios in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jim Davis Cropped
Jim or JIM may refer to: Names * Jim (given name), a given name * Jim, a diminutive form of the given name James * Jim, a short form of the given name Jimmy People and horses * Jim, the nickname of Yelkanum Seclamatan (died April 1911), Native American chief * Juan Ignacio Martínez (born 1964), Spanish footballer, commonly known as JIM * Jim (horse), milk wagon horse used to produce serum containing diphtheria antitoxin * Jim (Medal of Honor recipient) Media and publications * ''Jim'' (book), a book about Jim Brown written by James Toback * ''Jim'' (comics), a series by Jim Woodring * '' Jim!'', an album by rock and roll singer Jim Dale * ''Jim'' (album), by soul artist Jamie Lidell * Jim (''Huckleberry Finn''), a character in Mark Twain's novel * Jim (TV channel), in Finland * Jim (YRF Spy Universe), a fictional film character in the Indian YRF Spy Universe, portrayed by John Abraham * JIM (Flemish TV channel), a Flemish television channel * "Jim" (song), a 1941 s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julie Payne (actress, Born 1946)
Julie Payne is an American television, film and stage actress who, in a career lasting over four decades, has specialized primarily in comedy roles as well as voice acting. She was a cast member in three short-lived network sitcoms during 1983–1986, and appeared in about twenty feature films and over a hundred episodes of TV series as well as providing voices for scores of TV animated shows, of which her best known character is that of Liz Wilson. Early life A native of Oregon, Julie Payne was born in Sweet Home, near the lake and river areas adjoining the Cascade Range. Growing up in the state's second-largest city, Eugene, she attended South Eugene High School, where she performed in a number of school productions, including ''The Music Man'', ''The Madwoman of Chaillot'', '' The Lark'' and ''Once Upon a Mattress''. After graduating in 1964, she moved to California, where she studied drama at Santa Clara University and French at San Francisco State University. Includes p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Italian Cuisine
Italian cuisine is a Mediterranean cuisine#CITEREFDavid1988, David 1988, Introduction, pp. 101–103 consisting of the ingredients, recipes, and cooking techniques developed in Italy since Ancient Roman cuisine, Roman times, and later spread around the world together with waves of Italian diaspora. Significant changes Columbian exchange, occurred with the colonization of the Americas and the consequent introduction of potatoes, tomatoes, capsicums, and maize, as well as sugar beet—the latter introduced in quantity in the 18th century. It is one of the best-known and most widely appreciated Gastronomy, gastronomies worldwide. Italian cuisine includes deeply rooted traditions common throughout the country, as well as all the diverse Regional cuisine, regional gastronomies, different from each other, especially between Northern Italy, the north, Central Italy, the centre, and Southern Italy, the south of Italy, which are in continuous exchange. Many dishes that were once region ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odie
This is a list of characters in the ''Garfield'' comic strip, created by Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis, organized by category and date of first appearance. Main characters Garfield First Appearance: June 19, 1978 Garfield is Jon's orange tabby cat. Some of his personality traits include laziness, cynicism, sarcasm, a hatred of Mondays, a tendency to be annoyed by Jon's dog Odie, an active imagination, a love for lasagna, and a hatred for Nermal. He is very fat. In February 2017, a dispute arose on the talk section of the character's Wikipedia page regarding Garfield's gender. Although other characters have persistently referred to Garfield with male pronouns, owing to comments that the character's creator, Jim Davis, made in 2014 to Mental Floss, the matter of Garfield's gender remains ambiguous. He said, "Garfield is very universal. By virtue of being a cat, really, he's not really male or female or any particular race or nationality, young or old. It gives me a lot mor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Garfield (character)
Garfield is an American List of fictional felines, fictional cat and the protagonist of the comic strip Garfield, of the same name, created by Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis. Garfield is portrayed as a lazy, fat, cynical and self-absorbed orange Tabby cat, tabby Persian cat. He is noted for his love of lasagna and pizza, coffee, and sleeping, and his hatred of Mondays, List of characters in the Garfield franchise#Nermal, Nermal, the vet, and exercise. Character Fictional biography Garfield is an Tabby cat, orange cat belonging to Jon Arbuckle. He was born on (the day the first ''Garfield'' strip was published), in the kitchen of Mamma Leoni's Italian Restaurant. Jim Davis (cartoonist), Jim Davis named Garfield after his grandfather, James Garfield Davis. As a kitten, he develops a taste for lasagna, which would become his favorite food. Because of his large appetite, the owner of Mamma Leoni's has to choose between giving away Garfield or closing down his restaurant; so G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Arbuckle
Jonathan Q. "Jon" Arbuckle is a fictional character from the ''Garfield'' comic strip by Jim Davis. He also appears in the animated television series ''Garfield and Friends'' and ''The Garfield Show'', two live-action/animated feature films, and four fully animated films. Jon is the owner of Garfield, whom he is frequently yet unknowingly mocked by, and Odie. A cartoonist by trade, he is largely presented as a comical, bumbling geek who is socially oblivious, especially when it comes to women. Development The character of Jon Arbuckle was envisioned by Jim Davis as an author surrogate and was the primary character of the comic strip ''Jon'', created by Davis in 1976 and syndicated locally in the Indiana newspaper '' The Pendleton Times''. ''Jon'' featured Jon Arbuckle alongside his pet cat, Garfield, and a dog named "Spot", who would eventually evolve into Odie. Davis eventually decided to replace Jon with Garfield as the main character, with the renamed ''Garfield'' stri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
