Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield; his owner, Jon; and Jon's dog, Odie. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.[1]
Though this is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield is set in Muncie, Indiana, the home of Jim Davis, according to the television special Happy Birthday, Garfield. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, and disdain of Mondays and diets. The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but recurring minor characters appear as well. Originally created with the intentions to "come up with a good, marketable character",[2] Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $750 million to $1 billion annually. In addition to the various merchandise and commercial tie-ins, the strip has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature-length live-action/CGI animated films and three fully CGI animated direct-to-video movies. Part of the strip's broad appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary; though this was Davis' original intention, he also admitted that his "grasp of politics isn't strong," remarking that, for many years, he thought "OPEC was a denture adhesive".[3][4]
主角加菲（Garfield）是一隻橙色、只吃人類食物的貓，包括一隻不太聰明的寵物狗欧迪（Odie）及牠們的主人喬恩·艾伯克（Jon Arbuckle，又譯阿北、老姜）。加菲的名字取自吉姆·戴維斯的祖父詹姆斯·加菲爾·戴維斯（James Garfield Davis），而詹姆斯·加菲爾·戴維斯的名字可能是取自美國前總統詹姆斯·加菲爾德（James Abram Garfield）。
加菲猫自推出以来受到众多观众的喜爱，是一个成功的虛擬角色。
首部加菲貓漫畫於1978年6月19日推出。
該作以寵物主人和他們的寵物取材，並帶出「很多時候，寵物才是家裏的主宰」的信息。另外，加菲貓亦常需要解決許多人類遇到的問題，例如減肥、對星期一的厭惡及恐懼、對事物的冷感及煩悶等。
事實上，加菲貓的心理及行為特徵越來越接近人類而非貓。1980年代初期，加菲貓開始以兩腳行走而非以四腳爬行，而漫畫的主題亦漸漸加入了喜劇（例如加菲貓取笑他的主人愚蠢或情場上的失敗），反而著墨貓的毛病的地方越來越少。一些讀者認為，雖然漫畫的畫功多年來沒有改變、沒有退步，但就題材而言，該漫畫的質素正在下降。值得留意的是，近年來吉姆‧戴維斯已經不再是唯一的作者，甚至不是主筆了。
How Garfield is Drawn:
加菲爾是如何画的：
How Garfield is Drawn:
加菲爾是如何画的：
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