History of Garfield

" Like any good lasagna , Garfield is a cat born in the kitchen of an Italian restaurant on a winter night 1978 , while outside snow fell like parmesan cheese. Restaurant owner , to the obligation to choose between Garfield and closing your doors for lack of cooking pasta, sold the cat to a pet shop . Garfield thought he was doomed to be a bum the rest of his life, but one day Jon crossed his path. "
Garfield , also called on the Garfo series debuted on June 19, 1978 , considered the birthday of Garfield ( the cartoon from 19 June Garfield always show celebrating his birthday ) . Cartoon mocks pet owners and their relationship with pets , portraying the pet as the true master of the house . Garfield also appeals to your way very human problems , such as diet , hate Mondays , apathy , boredom, rarely antagonize him was attributed to dogs and cats, the ongoing mistreatment of elderly.
Through the development of the cartoon Garfield behavior becomes less human and feline . His physical appearance has also evolved since its inception was a big fat cat loose jaws and small round eyes. Quickly dwarfed , his eyes widened and became much more smiling . By 1983 his family look ( with oval eyes ) had taken shape. He also began to walk on two legs , and style of the cartoons changed to focus on the weaknesses of the cats to emphasize the comic situations (like how Garfield constantly teases unlucky Jon with women ) .
The newspaper comic strips on Mondays to Saturdays appeared in full color from June 7, 1999 .
The comic strip became a special cartoon for television in 1982 called Here Comes Garfield. They made ​​twelve special for television as well as a television series , Garfield and Friends , which aired between 1988 and 1995. In recent years, moreover, there have been two film adaptations of the adventures of Garfield: Garfield : The Movie (2004) and Garfield 2 (2006 ) .