![]() The odds were heavily against me,” he remembers. ![]() “Newspaper syndicates were getting tens of thousands of submissions from hopeful cartoonists a year and taking one or two. ![]() “I thought, ‘This is it, it’s downhill from here.’”īefore Garfield was published, Davis had been working as assistant cartoonist while shopping around his idea for a strip about a bug, Gnorm Gnat, without success. “Here I am, 90 days into my dream career, and I lose a newspaper,” says Davis, speaking from his 200-acre country home outside Muncie, Indiana. Garfield’s creator, cartoonist Jim Davis was close to panic. ![]() A couple of months later, that number fell by one: the Chicago Sun-Times decided to drop the strip. Back on 19 June 1978, though, Garfield made his debut in just 41 newspapers, all in the US. ![]()
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