Garfield creator Jim Davis on his Zelda diet and mobile feast . He even starred in software back in the old Atari era of the early 1. But these days, the orange Monday- hater has taken his digital game to mobile with titles like the recent Garfield: Survival of the Fattest. This makes sense, since the mobile market’s revenues could exceed the console industry’s this year with $3. Newzoo. We sat down with Garfield creator Jim Davis and David Reddick, who works at Davis’ Paws Inc. We talked about the new game and Davis’s involvement with it, along with the exodus of media properties from home consoles like Sony’s Play. Station to mobile. Games. Beat: Your background is in cartooning, not gaming. How involved are you in projects like Survival of the Fattest? Davis: Actually, I work with the concept for all the games. David and I brainstorm around: What if he goes this direction, does this, doesn’t do that? Things like that. ![]() Create a your personalized. History The original inhabitants of South Pasadena. View original content with multimedia:http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/milestone-events-announce-a-garfield-christmas-national-tour-300486879.html. John Garfield, the tough. Canada Lee (Charlie’s adversary and sparring partner), Art. Gabbing About Garfield: Conversing About Texts With. Sheets as they create original comic. David carries the heavy load on this stuff, but I am aware of it. I’m aware of the storyline. I know the appeals and occasionally go in, dip my toe in the games, and do a little bit of — I’m nowhere near the expertise of a lot of early adopting 8 year olds, obviously. But nevertheless, it’s fun to see. ![]() ![]() Above: Jim Davis created Garfield in 1. Image Credit: Photo courtesy of The Star Press. Games. Beat: Do you play any games? Davis: I’ve played a lot of your Freecell kinds of games online, as far as — it’s been a long — well, I’ll tell you. RPG games like Zelda. I got into that. And then the demands of the strip and the TV and the movies and everything became so strong that I had to consciously step away from it, as much as I loved video games and things like that. Just to simply preserve my time for the projects we have going on here. When I get into a game, I always have somebody along to help steer. Games. Beat: It’s interesting. Garfield has had a really long history with video games. He had games out on the Atari back in the day. I remember a Sega Genesis game when I was a little kid. Davis: Oh my gosh, yeah. Yeah, we actually made a trip and went over and visited Konami in Japan one time, playing around with the games and what they would do in the early days. With the original Atari consoles and stuff, we had an absolute ball with those programs. Games. Beat: Do you think games are a part of keeping the character relevant through the years? Especially with a younger audience? Davis: I always like to push Garfield in directions where he resonates with the young readers. I relied for years on just the comic strip. Garfield’s fanbase starts around age 6, when people start to learn to read. When CBS came to us and wanted to do an animated series, at that time — now we’re talking the mid- 1. But as they moved away, we started looking for a new direction. ![]() It was nearly 2. 0 years ago when we started looking at the Internet. Fifteen years ago, when we got actively involved with it, we were looking to see where kids were going. They’re very fickle. List of characters in the Garfield franchise. Randy Rabbit – He is the partner of Billy Bear helping him do. The Garfield Show currently consists of five seasons. The Garfield Show/Episode List < The Garfield Show. Original U.S. Garfield and Pixowl Partner to Create Original Garfield Mobile Game (coming soon!) Read press release here: http://garfield.com/article/pixowl-shakes-hands-with-paws. They move very quickly. You have to pay a lot of attention. We were online very early as a result, because we knew we were headed there. Quite frankly, too, I saw that newspapers, our traditional publishing method, were having some issues. Anything on paper. Kids were growing up more comfortable staring at a video screen than they were sitting in front of a book or a newspaper. We knew we had to digitize. We had to move an analog cat into a digital world. Fortunately, today putting the comic strip online has been very well received. I believe we have a funny mood today, in that kids expect to see comics online look like the comics from the newspaper. At least today, comics still read the same and play the same. As a result, we’ve been able to maintain a younger demographic. I think there’s also some retro appeal for their parents, who grew up with Garfield in the ’8. They have a certain affinity for the character, and they’ve introduced it to their kids as well. Garfield’s a cartoon. He’s graphic. He’s colorful. As a result, he’s perfect for gaming. There’s that emotional tag, too, with kids having known him from the comic strips. They don’t just recognize the cartoon cat, but he also carries that history of gluttony and physical humor and an attitude right through to the game. Games. Beat: He seems like kind of a timeless character in the strip itself. The premise is pretty simple. This guy owns a cat and a dog, and that translates from the late 1. Davis: It is classic. We had to create conflict. In fact, in creating the characters — Jon is easygoing. Garfield’s not so easygoing. Jon’s an optimist. Garfield’s a pessimist. It’s only when you have conflict and contrast that you really have humor, or an ability to tell a story that’s compelling. Same thing with this game. Garfield thinks he’s going on a vacation when really Jon is sending him to a place where he can get healthier. Now you have the conflict and it lets the story begin. Above: Does anyone notice Jon’s about to get mauled to death? Image Credit: Pixowl. Games. Beat: Is this an original idea, or was it based on any comics? Davis: We did it in animation before. We sent him to obedience school, which never works out well. But no, we’ve never taken him to a health farm, any healthy kind of place like that, with a diet and stuff. We’ve tried to make him better behaved and things like that, but never quite in this direction. This is new. Games. Beat: How did developer Pixowl get involved with the game, get the chance to develop it? Davis: We’ve been working with Pixowl for a long time. It’s been about three years. David Reddick: They contacted us and were interested in developing a game for Garfield. They approached Jim and met with us. Jim started planting the seeds, as it were, for what the game would be about. Davis: There was the farm idea, in the very beginning. It was very Farmville- esque. I loved the idea of that setting. For kids, learning about how you have to water in order to grow the plants, grow the trees, and then you have to harvest it — that whole process is really a nice lesson. Games. Beat: How much freedom does Pixowl have with the license? It sounds like you guys bring ideas to them a bit, and then they develop them. Davis: They have a lot of freedom, actually. We just have some very basic restrictions on things — keep it family- friendly, no alcohol or guns, stuff like that. Short of that — obviously we allow nudity in Garfield. They can push the envelope and we’ll be the conscience. If we have the type of relationship where we have to hold them back, usually we get a lot more than we would have anticipated. That’s always a good thing. Games. Beat: So we won’t be seeing Garfield in Grand Theft Auto any time soon. Davis: Not real soon. Grand Theft Lasagna, maybe? That might work. Games. Beat: Sure, that idea markets itself. But the character is really malleable. When I was a kid, I remember a series of books where he and his friends were superheroes. It sounds ridiculous, but I read all of them. Davis: We actually made a direct- to- video movie with the Pet Force characters. It was originally published by Scholastic, and we absolutely fell in love with that series. Every now and then, when I get a chance, I like to use those characters. Four or five years ago, we put out a video. I produced it and had great fun with it. It had a theatrical release in a few markets, like Brazil and France. It was a lot of fun. Above: You can tell it’s a mobile game because it’s isometric. Image Credit: Pixowl. Games. Beat: I know this isn’t Garfield’s first mobile game. How successful have previous mobile games been? Reddick: They’ve had good success. Garfield’s Diner has been incredibly successful for us, with several million downloads. Garfield’s games, mobile game things, have been very successful. Things have gone very well. They’re very well received. Garfield Kart is so successful as a mobile game that it’s actually being developed into a Nintendo 3. DS game in various markets around the world. Gamers really respond to Garfield being Garfield, even some of the fantastical types of things that might happen in a game. Davis: It’s fun for them to work with a character they know. It’s like having a friend show up in a game. Why do you think that is? Davis: It’s where everybody’s heading. We go where the eyeballs are. More and more every day — last night I got home and my 4- year- old grandson’s flat on the floor with his phone. It’s been interesting watching the time he spends on the i. Pad. More and more, he’s going to the phone, because it’s just so easy to carry around. Games. Beat: I’m sure Garfield would like it. I remember a comic where he screwed a TV to the ceiling so he could watch it in bed. Now he can just have his i. Pad there. Davis: Yeah. It’s so much simpler these days. Games. Beat: So much easier to be lazy. Reddick: He had the mobile concept down a long time ago. Garfield. President of United States. Also known asborn. November 1. 9, 1. Orange, Ohiodied. September 1. 9, 1. Elberon, Ohiotitle / officepolitical affiliation. View Biographies Related To. Categories. Dates. James A. Garfield, in full James Abram Garfield (born November 1. Orange . When he was shot and incapacitated, serious constitutional questions arose concerning who should properly perform the functions of the presidency. The last president born in a log cabin, Garfield dreamed of foreign ports of call as a sailor but instead worked for a time on a boat on the Ohio Canal between Cleveland, Ohio, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Always studious, he attended Western Reserve Eclectic Institute (later Hiram College) at Hiram, Ohio, and graduated (1. Williams College. He returned to the Eclectic Institute as a professor of ancient languages and in 1. A year later he married Lucretia Rudolph (Lucretia Garfield) and began a family that included seven children (two died in infancy). Garfield also studied law and was ordained as a minister in the Disciples of Christ church, but he soon turned to politics. An advocate of free- soil principles (opposing the extension of slavery), he became a supporter of the newly organized Republican Party and in 1. Ohio legislature. During the Civil War he helped recruit the 4. Ohio Volunteer Infantry and became its colonel. After commanding a brigade at the Battle of Shiloh (April 1. U. S. House of Representatives, and while waiting for Congress to begin its session, he served as chief of staff in the Army of the Cumberland, winning promotion to major general after distinguishing himself at the Battle of Chickamauga (September 1. It was about that time that Garfield had an extramarital affair with a Lucia Calhoun in New York City. He later admitted the indiscretion and was forgiven by his wife. Historians believe that the many letters he had written to Calhoun, which are referred to in his diary, were retrieved by Garfield and destroyed. For nine terms, until 1. Garfield represented Ohio’s 1. As chairman of the House Committee on Appropriations, he became an expert on fiscal matters and advocated a high protective tariff; as a Radical Republican, he sought a firm policy of Reconstruction for the South. In 1. 88. 0 the Ohio legislature elected him to the U. S. Senate. Road to the presidency. At the Republican presidential convention the same year in Chicago, the delegates were divided into three principal camps: the “Stalwarts” (conservatives led by powerful New York Senator Roscoe Conkling), who backed former president Ulysses S. Grant, the “Half- Breed” (moderate) supporters of Maine Senator James G. Blaine, and those committed to Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman. Tall, bearded, affable, and eloquent, Garfield steered fellow Ohioan Sherman’s campaign and impressed so many with his nominating speech that he, not the candidate, became the focus of attention. As the chairman of the Ohio delegation, Garfield also led a coalition of anti- Grant delegates who succeeded in rescinding the unit rule, by which a majority of delegates from a state could cast the state’s entire vote. This victory added to Garfield’s prominence and doomed Grant’s candidacy. Grant led all other candidates for 3. Garfield, who was still trying to remove his name from nomination as the bandwagon gathered speed. Test Your Knowledge. History Buff Quiz. His Democratic opponent in November was General Winfield Scott Hancock, like Garfield a Civil War veteran, so both could wrap themselves in the symbolic “bloody shirt” of the Union. But Garfield also capitalized on his rags- to- riches background, and along with a campaign biography literally written by Horatio Alger, he reached back to his humble beginnings as a “canal boy” for the slogan “From the tow path to the White House.” (“No man ever started so low that accomplished so much, in all our history,” said former president Rutherford B. Hayes of Garfield. He was “the ideal self- made man.”) In an era when it was still considered unseemly for a candidate to court voters actively, Garfield, aided by Lucretia (who remained an important adviser), conducted the first “front porch” campaign, from his home in Mentor, Ohio, where reporters and voters came to hear him speak. Notwithstanding allegations of involvement in the Cr. The vote in the electoral college was less close: 2. Garfield, 1. 55 for Hancock. Presidency. Britannica Lists & Quizzes. By the time of his election, Garfield had begun to see education rather than the ballot box as the best hope for improving the lives of African Americans. In his inaugural speech he said, “The elevation of the Negro race from slavery to the full rights of citizenship is the most important political change we have known since the adoption of the Constitution of 1. No thoughtful man can fail to appreciate its beneficent effect upon our institutions and people. Instead of appointing one of Conkling’s friends as collector of the Port of New York, Garfield chose a Blaine prot. So demanding were the office seekers and the pressures of the patronage system that at one point Garfield wondered why anyone would want to seek the presidency. Guiteau, a disappointed office seeker with messianic visions. Guiteau peaceably surrendered to police, calmly announcing, “I am a Stalwart. It was generally agreed that, in such cases, the vice president was empowered by the Constitution to assume the powers and duties of the office of president. But should he serve merely as acting president until Garfield recovered, or would he receive the office itself and thus displace his predecessor? Because of an ambiguity in the Constitution, opinion was divided, and, because Congress was not in session, the problem could not be debated there. On September 2, 1. Garfield. But in the opinion of the doctors this was impossible, and no further action was taken before the death of the president, the result of slow blood poisoning, on September 1. The public and the media were obsessed with this drawn- out passing of the president, leading historians to see in the brief Garfield administration the seeds of an important aspect of the modern president: the chief executive as celebrity and symbol of the nation. It is said that public mourning for Garfield was more extravagant than the grief displayed in the wake of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, which is startling in light of the relative roles these men played in American history. Garfield was buried beneath a quarter- million- dollar, 1. Lake View Cemetery in Cleveland. Cabinet of President James A. Garfield. The table provides a list of cabinet members in the administration of President James A. Garfield. Cabinet of President James A.
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