Jim Davis

“Readers have told me that their children have learned to read after years of struggle after starting to read Garfield's comic strip and many people who have moved to the United States have said that they, too, learned English by reading Garfield.”

“The surprising thing was, it's actually easier working on animation than working on a comic strip, because Garfield is animated in my head.”

“I was very happy and honored to create the Professor Garfield Foundation with Ball State to make reading fun.”

“We live in a time where we're made to feel guilty about overeating, oversleeping, and not exercising. Garfield not only does all that, but he doesn't apologize for it.”

“Good morning is a contradiction of terms.”

“I probably get more inspiration for human stories and idiosyncrasies than I do animal stories.”