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This article is about the comic strip. For the title character, see Garfield (character). For the film, see Garfield: The Movie. For other uses, see Alphablocks (disambiguation).

Garfield
From left to right:
Nermal, Odie, Garfield, Arlene, and Pooky
Author(s)Jim Davis
OwnerPaws, Inc.
Websitenick.com/garfield
gocomics.com/garfield
Current status/scheduleRunning/Daily
Launch dateJune 19, 1978; 47 years ago (1978-06-19)
Syndicate(s)Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick/Andrews McMeel Syndication (1994–present)
United Feature Syndicate (1978–1994)
Publisher(s)Random House (under Ballantine Books), occasionally Andrews McMeel Publishing
Genre(s)Gag-a-day, Humor
Preceded byJon (1976–1977) and Garfield (1977–1978), locally published strips in the Pendleton Times-Post

Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. 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 Jim Davis' hometown of Muncie, Indiana, according to the television special Happy Birthday, Garfield. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, love of coffee and lasagna, disdain of Mondays, and diets. Garfield is also shown to manipulate people to get whatever he wants. The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but other recurring 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 films.

Part of the strip's broad pop cultural appeal is due to its lack of social or political commentary; though this was Davis's original intention, he also admitted that his "grasp of politics isn't strong", joking that, for many years, he thought "OPEC was a denture adhesive".[3][4]

On August 6, 2019, New York City-based Paramount Global, at the time ViacomCBS, announced that it would acquire Paws, Inc., including most rights to the Garfield franchise (the comics, merchandise and animated cartoons). The deal did not include the rights to the live-action Garfield films,[5] which are still owned by The Walt Disney Company through its 20th Century Studios label, as well as the upcoming animated Garfield film which is set for worldwide distribution by Sony Pictures except China.[6] Jim Davis will continue to make comics, and a new Garfield animated series is in production for Paramount Global subsidiary Nickelodeon.[7]

List of episodes

Series 1 (2010–2011)

  1. Alphablocks (letters and their sounds)
  2. Bee (letter E)
  3. Top (B_G)
  4. Why (Y as a vowel)
  5. Key (letters C and K)
  6. Glow (short vowels O and U; OW making the long O sound)
  7. Sing (B_ND)
  8. Band (AB word family)
  9. Party (letters S and X)
  10. Race (making words with the alphabet)
  11. Cha cha cha (introduction to digraphs)
  12. Moon (digraph OO)
  13. Alphalympics (anagramming)
  14. Sail (digraph AI)
  15. UFO (R-controlled vowels)
  16. Fox (pangrams)
  17. Surprise (vowel A)
  18. Bus (short vowels O and U)
  19. Space (long vowels A and E)
  20. Hide (long vowels E and I)
  21. Quiet (letter Q)
  22. Map (letter R)
  23. Jaybird (letter J)
  24. Note (S-ending plural words)
  25. Zzzzz (letter Z)
  26. Magic (long vowels with Magic E)

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Series 2 (2012)

  1. Taps (short vowel A)
  2. In (short vowel I)
  3. Man (letter M)
  4. Din (short vowels A and I)
  5. Dog (short vowels I and O)
  6. Cat (short vowel A)
  7. Pen (short vowel E)
  8. Up (short vowel U)
  9. Red (letter R)
  10. Hen (letter H)
  11. Bop (letter B)
  12. Fred (letter F)
  13. Hill (double consonants LL, SS, and FF)
  14. Van (letters J and V)
  15. Zap (letters Y and Z)
  16. Dot (short vowel O)
  17. Lips (short vowels)
  18. Web (letters W and X)
  19. Box (ED word family)
  20. Quick (letter Q)
  21. Kick (letters C and K)
  22. Wig (IG word family)
  23. Rainbow (OG word family)
  24. On (letters and their sounds)
  25. ABC (the alphabet song)
  26. The Cat sat on the Mat (AT word family)

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Series 3 (2012–2013)

  1. Wish (UG word family)
  2. Snowman (AN word family)
  3. Win (IN word family)
  4. Hat (AP word family)
  5. Little Red N
  6. Dots
  7. Frog on a Dog (short vowels I and O)
  8. Best (letter blend ST)
  9. Fit (IT word family)
  10. Odd (short vowel O; nonsense words)
  11. Champ (digraphs CH and SH)
  12. Song (digraph NG)
  13. Thing (digraph TH)
  14. Train (digraph AI)
  15. Beep (digraph EE)
  16. Tightrope (trigraph IGH)
  17. Toad (digraph OA)
  18. Book (digraph OO)
  19. Hey! (vowels A, I, O, and OO)
  20. Card (digraph AR)
  21. The End (digraphs OI, OR, and UR)
  22. How now brown cow (digraph OW)
  23. Fair (trigraphs AIR, EAR, and URE, and digraph ER)
  24. Ants (introduction to letter blends)
  25. Ink (INK word family)
  26. Crash (short vowel A; onomatopoeic words)

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Series 4 (2013)

  1. Four (words with ending blends)
  2. Clap (words with beginning blends)
  3. Prank (words with beginning and ending blends)
  4. Plusman (compound words)
  5. Alphabet (digraphs WH and PH)
  6. Name (long vowel A)
  7. Sleep (long vowel E)
  8. Mine (long vowel I)
  9. Home (long vowel O)
  10. Blue (long vowel U, and digraph EW)
  11. Outlaw (words with AW and AU)
  12. Birthday Girl (digraph IR)
  13. Cowboy (digraphs OY and OU)

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Specials (2021)

  1. Band Together (making words with letters appearing in alphabetical order)
  2. The Wonderful Wizard of Az (changing vowels in CVC words)
  3. Boo! (vowels A, O, and OO)
  4. Letters to Santa (Christmas vocabulary)

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Crossover Specials (2022)

  1. Making Friends
  2. Crossover (the A1-Z26 cipher)
  3. The Case of the Missing Blocks (word magic with 2 words)
  4. The Blocks v Blocks Games (anagrams)

Alphablocks: Word Magic

Alphablocks: Word Magic is a spin-off of Alphablocks.

Alphablocks: Word Magic is a series of 26 short episodes published all at the same time on BBC iPlayer in 2020,[8] making the Alphablocks return after 7 years of no episodes, although these episodes tend to recap all of the letters from A to Z.[8]

Each and every episode will begin with the letter doing something, with the narrator describing it. After that, three words will be spelled with that letter, and a little scene will play that has something to do with that word. After the words, the same Alphablock animation will play a second time. There are 26 episodes, one for each letter in the alphabet.[8]

The episodes last for 1–3 minutes.[8]

References

  1. ^ "Garfield Named World's Most Syndicated Comic Strip". Business Wire. January 22, 2002. Archived from the original on September 10, 2004. Retrieved July 26, 2008.
  2. ^ Shapiro, Walter (December 12, 1982). "LIVES: The Cat That Rots the Intellect". The Washington Post. Retrieved June 23, 2019.
  3. ^ Johnson, Beth (June 19, 1998). "'Garfield' 20 years later". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved June 19, 2020.
  4. ^ "Everybody loves Garfield". The Star. November 5, 2005. Archived from the original on August 11, 2011. Retrieved January 19, 2022.
  5. ^ Mullin, Benjamin (August 6, 2019). "Viacom, Hungry For Hits, Gobbles Garfield". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved August 12, 2019.
  6. ^ Rubin, Rebecca (November 1, 2021). "Chris Pratt to Voice Garfield in Upcoming Animated Movie". Variety. Retrieved November 2, 2021.
  7. ^ Steinberg, Brian (August 6, 2019). "Viacom Acquires Comic-Strip Cat Garfield". Variety. Retrieved August 6, 2019.
  8. ^ a b c d e f g h i Alphablocks, retrieved February 15, 2022
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