The Garfield comic strip was created by the American cartoonist Jim Davis. The first Garfield strip appeared in forty-one newspapers in North America on June 19, 1978. It is now the most widely syndicated comic strip in the world, appearing in more than two thousand five hundred newspapers and magazines in many different countries and territories. The strip has spawned thirteen TV specials, two animated TV series (Garfield and Friends (1989-1994) and The Garfield Show (2009-present)), two theatrically released movies which combine live-action with computer generated imagery, three straight-to-video CGI only films and a great deal of merchandise. The strip's title character is a fat, lazy striped orange cat. Garfield loves sleeping, watching television and eating lasagna. He hates Mondays a