![]() ![]() GARFIELD IS SET IN DAVIS'S HOMETOWN OF MUNCIE, INDIANA, BUT THAT'S ALSO MOSTLY LEFT UNSAID. (Sounds like a dead-ringer for William Howard Taft!) 4. Now just imagine a fat, wisecracking, lasagna-eating cat as the President of the United States of America. GARFIELD WAS NAMED AFTER DAVIS'S GRANDFATHER, JAMES A. So I thought I would give Jon a job right off the top to avoid being asked what he does for a living in interviews.” 3. ![]() Nobody ever knew because he was always in the house with Harriet and Ricky and David. Also, I purposely gave him a job right off the top for the reason that The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet never explained what Ozzie did for a living. I didn’t want to lose the readers just for my own enjoyment, or for a handful of peers. "That it would be a little too easy for me to write. “I didn’t want to tread on the fact that Jon’s a cartoonist because my biggest fear was getting a little too inside," Davis says. JON WAS A CARTOONIST IN THE VERY FIRST COMIC STRIP, BUT IT WAS NEVER REALLY MENTIONED AGAIN. said, 'Well, what does that tell you, Jim?'" he laughs. Ryan-the cartoonist for Tumbleweeds-and I showed it to him and told him how every time I got to the punch line the cat zings him. ![]() It was about him, but he had this wise cat who, every time, came back zinging him. “I ran some early ideas at a local paper,” Jim Davis tells Mental Floss, “to see how I felt about it and I called the strip Jon. ![]()
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