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Jim Davis is Garfield's creator. He was born on July 28, 1945, in Marion, Indiana. Jim grew up on a small farm near Fairmount, Indiana, with his dad, Jim, his mother, Betty, and his brother, Dave. He used his family as characters in the Garfield comic strip, they were Jon Arbuckle's family. His father raised Black Angus cattle, and his mother took care of the family and the family's pets which were twenty-five cats. As a child Jim Davis was forced to stay in bed a lot and away from farm chores because of asthma. In an effort to keep occupied Jim Davis used to draw learning the basics of good drawing from his mother. During his childhood Jim Davis loved to read the Sunday comics, and counts the classic strips like "Peanuts" and "Beetle Bailey" as very influential to his cartooning career. Jim Davis attended Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana after high school and majored as an art and business major. After college he worked for an advertising agency for two years, then went on to assist Tom Ryan on the comic strip "Tumbleweeds". While working with Tom Ryan, Jim Davis tried many other things to supplement his income, one of which was coming up with his own comic strip. His first comic strip was called "Gnorm Gnat" it ran weekly in a Indiana newspaper, but after five years a foot fell out of the sky and crushed poor Gnorm. That was the end of the "Gnorm Gnat" comic strip. After a lot of hard work and time Jim Davis came up with the idea of Garfield. Since then Garfield has gone on to be a worldwide success.
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