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...Cartoonist Bernard Kliban suggested in his bestselling album Cat (1975), merely whimsical meat-loaves? While the fur flies in this battle, one cat gives folks a humorous peek at both armies in the controversy. The most famous feline to express this perplexing relationship between man and pet is Garfield, a comic-strip cat. His creator, Cartoonist Jim Davis, has three books on the New York Times trade paperback bestseller list, a first for any author. Garfield Bigger Than Life, Garfield Gains Weight and Garfield at Large, which has been on the list for an amazing 84 weeks, have sold more...
...Garfield and his top-selling feline pals are but one example of the cat boom in the U.S., which now goes well beyond book and comic pages. There is, for example, Cats, an opulent, energetic rock musical adapted from T.S. Eliot's volume of poems Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. The production has been a smash hit in London for nine months and will stalk onto Broadway early next year. Signature lines of kitty sheets, towels, ceramic cat planters, calendars, mugs, watches, umbrellas, T shirts, sweatshirts, stationery and housewares move swiftly at gift stores and specialty...
When confronted with one of his father's drawings, Alex W Davis, 2, pointed and said, "Snoopy." Although he failed to identify the fat and sassy Garfield, the toddler was eerily on target in another respect. His dad, Jim Davis, 36, who created Garfield, always dreamed of becoming the next Charles Schulz. Davis wanted to pen a cartoon animal as captivating and popular as Schulz's canine flying ace and his pals in the Peanuts comic strip. That fantasy is fast approaching fact...
...books about cats are offered by publishers, but four cartoonists-not novelists, poets or pet-expert authors-dominate feline literature. Davis, whose books are compiled from daily comic strips running in 850 newspapers, is the most successful of the group. In fact, like superstrips Blondie, Peanuts and Beetle Bailey, Garfield is expected to appear in 1,000 newspapers by next spring. This is an amazing achievement-it has been only 3 years since the sly and always hungry feline burst full-grown from the head and hand of Davis. This hero is a cat who is both thorny and funny...
...Garfield inhabits a kitchen apocalypse of shredded poultry and scarred humans. Garfield prefers pasta to Purina, pugilism to purring. Although he jeers at mental and physical exercise, his creator is charged with energy. The tall, thin, blond and balding Davis gets to work in his ranch-style studio near Muncie, Ind., by 6:30 most mornings He draws for eleven hours a day and then manages to go on to racquetball, chess and reading self-improvement books. "You know," he says, "things like So You Want to Be a Brain Surgeon." His early career probably should have included...