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 US Acres Published since 1978 Garfield is one of the worlds most widely syndicated comic strips Daviss other comics work includes Tumbleweeds Gnorm Gnat and Mr Potato Head Davis wrote or cowrote 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 directtovideo 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 CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia