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Garfield Introduction

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield (named after Davis' grandfather); his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie. As of 2007, 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. As of December 16, 2015, the strip has 13,695 issues.

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Main Characters

Garfield	Jon Arbuckle	Odie

Television

TV Specials	The Garfield Show	Garfield and Friends

Movies

Garfield: The Movie	Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties	Garfield Gets Real

Garfield's Fun Fest	Garfield's Pet Force	Untitled Alcon film

Other

Garfield Books	Garfield Video games

Featured Article: Bill Meléndez

José Cuauhtémoc "Bill" Meléndez (November 15, 1916 - September 2, 2008) was an Mexican-American character animator, film director, voice artist and producer.

With Lee Mendelson, Meléndez worked on the Peanuts animated features as the director, as well as providing the voices of Snoopy and Woodstock. Meléndez and Mendelson also worked on the early Garfield specials, among other features.

Featured Episode: Five Minute Warning

Five Minute Warning is the third segment from the fifty-third episode of Garfield and Friends.

Synopsis

Jon makes a wager to Garfield that if he can stop eating for 5 minutes to prove Garfield's "self-control," he will give him the chocolate cake and do a can-can dance. This becomes challenging for Garfield.

Trivia

• The Garfield Show would have a similar plot with the episode "The Last Word".

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Other Characters

• Lyman
• Arlene
• Dr. Liz Wilson
• Pooky
• Irma
• Herman Post
• Garfield's Mother
• Binky the Clown
• Squeak

U.S. Acres Characters

• Orson Pig
• Roy Rooster
• Wade Duck
• Bo Sheep
• Lanolin Sheep
• Booker
• Sheldon

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