It's Garfield's 40th Birthday So We Talked To Creator Jim Davis (HBO)
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- Опубликовано: 19 июн 2018
- June 19th marks the 40th anniversary of the world's most widely syndicated comic strip and lasagna loving cat: Garfield.
And Garfield's creator Jim Davis is arguably the most successful living cartoonist, running a licensing empire Paws, Inc that generates between 800 million to a billion dollars annually. But a significant factor in the cat’s financial success has to do with the lack of controversy that Garfield has drawn for 4 decades.
And after reading numerous interviews with Garfield's creator Jim Davis, it's easy to assume that behind the curmudgeonly cat is a curmudgeonly man. How else was one supposed to interpret such quotes as Garfield being born out of "a conscious effort to come up with a good, marketable character"?
But what these articles all failed to mention is that whenever Davis unleashes one of these seemingly soulless business dictums, he does so amid a fusillade of hearty, vaguely feline laughter.
This is the guy who makes Garfield, after all.
And Davis loves the orange cat, he is very conscientious about what products Garfield's face or tail-stripes are put on, and he writes the comic every single day. So what if he sometimes slaps a "Davis" on the third panel of a strip his head writer Mark came up with the gag for.
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Should have asked him about what he thinks of Calvin and Hobbes and bill waterson approach to licensing
But She Plays Despacito when I say "play Despacito"
*Prove it*
I got a *”Oops, something went wrong”*
VICE News is it because Siri dumb
Shame on you, VICE. How could you not ask Jim what's his favorite episode of Lasagna Cat ?
What about Garfelo?
Garfield
garfielf
Goofy ahh
I legitimately wonder what he thinks of Lasagna Cat.
Congratulations for your cat cartoon.
I'm not eating that
Now where could my pipe be?
Dan Roemer I also wonder too
He'd hate it
I wonder if Jim Davis has seen the masterpiece that is lasagna cat.
I wonder if Jim Davis has ever read Garfield Minus Garfield
He has, and he likes it.
I just ordered it off Amazon... Gotta love a good impulse buy. (This is why I'm broke)
Jim Davis is the whole reason the Garfield Minus Garfield book exists. He worked out a deal with Dan Walsh after seeing (and liking) Garfield Minus Garfield on the web, and had the book published through Ballantine Books, the company which publishes all his Garfield books.
Lasagna cat!
The ONLY reason why I started eating Lasagna because I saw Garfield !!
and now it is one of my favorite food!
The cat has your pipe
lasaga
100th like
We did it for You, jim
Garfield, stuffing his face as usual since 1978.
He's still gotta have good meal
its time to kick Odie off the table
GARFIELF, YOU FAT CAT
I hate ay-larm clocks
i'm a cat who loves to snooze
Garfield is 40 years old in human years
In cat years he's *DEAD*
He is 42 now and in cat years is 252!!!
Been a huge fan since my elementary days. I've always wanted to meet Jim Davis so i can tell him how much i love Garfield.
It's nice to see a cartoonist making a huge fortune. That's really, really rare.
so impressive that such a cartoon legend is still alive and working on the strip.
This is just my opinion, but I've always felt Jim Davis doesn't get any respect as a cartoonist. The attitude within certain circles is 'Garfield' has no artistic substance and is simply a bland, anodyne vehicle for mass market merchandise. The interviewer's stumbling, cumbersome question at 4:26 was an attempt to address this, before he aborted and followed with a truly odd and puzzling question about Garfield being a deity. (Truth: You would bail out of a question too, if you were going to call a really kind guy a hack to his face in his home.)
Think whatever you want about Garfield, but do acknowledge, Jim Davis is great at business. He knows it's not high art. There are other comic strips that fall in that category. The only similarity between the two is the medium itself. Jim Davis is in the knick-knack business. He knows it, and he's masterful at it. For 40 years.
I wonder what Jim's thoughts on Lasaga Cat is.
Lasaga cat? is that another name for Garfelo?
@@katakisLives No it's a channel; uploading weird stuff.
@@enthusiastisch1922 Oh I see.
Say what about Garfield, but Jim Davis has the balls to admit he´s just doing it for the money.
What a Chad.
You guys wasted an opportunity to ask Jim Davis about Jon drinking dog jizz in that one Garfield strip
Say what now
What about the one where he forgot to take a vibrator out of his ass? garfield.com/comic/2015/11/08
Wintericed it isn't protein dumbfuck and it isn't beneficial.
I loved having Jim Davis as a professor. He spoke to me alot about Garfield and my own art a few times and I will never forget it. He is truly a great guy.Living in Muncie....I never knew he had a garfield building at all!!
I wish I had this much garfield merch heck XD
Jim Davis seems to be a genuinely nice man and very humble guy I can’t understand why people would hate on him solely for being a “sellout” in their eyes (I am not against using the terms sell out and selling out and in fact I usually use them to but I don’t believe Jim Davis counts as one)
Thomas looks like he slept on the side of the road before this interview
i ate those food
icantthinkofaname
GARRRRFIELF
Where did all the hamburger helper go
BRUPPPP
Where did the three cheese pizzahs go?
gerald the sea lion. I ate those food
i feel honored, me and Garfield have the same birthday, year and everything. i used to read Garfield books alot back in the day and the only other one that even came close to matching the wit was "Calvin and Hobbs". Thanks for the memories jim!
Has he seen LasagnaCat?
He'd probably end the interview 😂, they did him major disrespect
@@DekuStickGamer he actually kinda hates Garfield, because he commercialized it. He would love the vulgar, uncommercializable Garfielf!
Garfield > Heathcliff
DrMario Pepper Hobbes > Garfield
To paraphrase Bill Watterson, Jim Davis's a hack
Dr Pepper + Garfled = Splatoon hell
Heathcliff > Garfield
but that’s just my opinion, ik its unpopular
Adrian Dezendegui Bill Watterson is a petty guy. Bill Watterson is worth $100 million, yet he acts like he's the "little guy," and bashes cartoonists that are more successful than him. I felt the same way about Anthony Bourdain when he bashed Rachael Ray, Guy Fieri and Paula Deen. I'm all like, why are you bashing other chefs? Because they're more popular than you? Then we found out that Bourdain had a lot of demons, and issues he had been dealing with internally. I feel the same about Watterson. Not that he's gonna kill himself. But he's a recluse, and seems to have personal battles he deals with. To attack another cartoonist shows the type of person you truly are. He seems like an angry guy.
I WANT MY SLAW!! He isn’t,that paragraph is 100% bullshit sorry,and I’m willing to get no one is going to agree with you..
Garfield will become a political/cultural weapon within a month of Jim Davies' death.
Soda88 (sighs), yeah
He's dead? 0_o
No he is not. It’s just a comment of what happens for Jim’s death. But Lorenzo music was cats 🐱 voice. He died somehow. Voice actor of garfields is a person who died but Jim Davis is not he is just a creator for the franchise.
I hope ur wrong but sadly it might be true
Now this is why im subbed to Vice
So you are subbed to Vice because of irrelevant pointless topics?
Real news! : ))
Midnite Reveries you got it
Midnite Reveries it’s possibly the most unbiased fact based video they’ve put out in ages
anything but Trump
*_Stuffing your face as usual_*
Tttt Yttt I gotta have a good meal
Mr Incognito *_GARFIELD YOU F A T CAT_*
I eat Jon, it’s what I do.
It's time to kick odie off the table
No Garfield that’s our pet dog, Odie
Happy Birthday Garfield! I hate Monday’s too!
"How often do you have to reject something?"
If you look at what Garfield was originally, and then at some of the Garfield-related things you see out there today, the answer is not often enough.
Lasagna cat better post something today
Ann Guerrero sadly, I don't think they are uploading ever again :'(
@@krahen7236 why? •~•
@@supmaidoods8753 well, its been a few years. im pretty sure those test results were the last video. its been a while since i heard from their creators, too
@@krahen7236 True
@@krahen7236 there was a 9 year break between lasagna cat uploads. Give it 7 more years
"We can talk all day and not see the same thing" is a pretty good line
we better not lose Jimbo McDavis (Jim Davis), without Garfield, Monday's will be lo-loved...
*HAPPY BIRTHDAY GARFIELD!!!!!!!!* 🎉🎊🎁🎂🎈
Never clicked on a notification so fast in my life!!
John: What happened to the three cheese pizzas?
Garfinkle: I ate those foods.
John: What happened to the hamburger helper?
Garsheckle: I ate those foods.
John: What happened to the taco shells?
Garfstink: !-B-U-R-P-!
His birthday is my birthday! As a child, I used to collect all the comic books. I still have a bucket full of them.
You are eating is out of house and home Garfield
trickyhero Garmfield*
I gotta have a good meal
Enugh wit da chichat letsegtzum grubgoim
You self depracious pansy
Jim Davis, David Letterman, Mike Pence, fellow Indiana natives, and no doubt Colts fans.
"Somehow president"
Vice still hasn't caught on yet, they're gonna need 6 more years to think about it .
6 years from now we'll be halfway through the next president's two terms. He's not going to win, he barely won against shitty candidate Hillary Clinton. America isn't going to make the same mistake twice and those who stayed home are going to come out in the millions. Trump, he's done.
You have no cards on the table buddy!
The Vice guy is like a cross between the midget in Twin Peaks and the stapler guy in Office Space.
How did this video manage to bring politics into Garfield?
You would be wondering why the most widely sold "orange" cat ? Why not most widely sold cat itself ?
Because Hello Kitty is the 2nd most sold merchandise ever 💀💀
I eat Jon,
it's what I do
GARFIELF, YOU FAT CAT
At 1:25 is that a picture of Trump with a pig nose and the word "corruption" on a poster behind the artist?
It must be cool to see something you created on toys, mugs,and signs.
gotta have a good meal
"I can tell by my watch....."
"That it's time to......."
"WONDER WHY I'M WEARING A WATCH!!!"
OOOOOOOOOOOOO
(That is a real Garfield comic strip by the way)
0:38 *GARFIELD INSURANCE*
WE'RE ,READY ,TO ,PARTY, i hope you bring lots of spaghetti
Cool behind the scenes look at the garfield world :D
but.......
that couch at 1:52 needed to be replaced like 15 years ago
Happy 40th birthday, Garfield! May you have many more!
This "report" primarily focuses on the merchandising of Garfield, with less than a minute of footage actually discussing the strip itself. Given Davis' motivation for the strip is licensing potential, I wonder what his stance is regarding Garfield's appropriation by meme culture similarly to Shrek or the Minions?
4:26 Jim is thinking "So, I'm being interviewed by Jon Arbuckle? This is pretty cool!"
haha I love orange kitty. he eats the lasagne and John gets mad at the fat cat!
It's possible the digital archive contains some footage of garfields judgement day
Some of it exists somewhere. But I don't think any finished footage was made. But I wonder if they have any voice recordings. I would love to hear Lorenzo Music voice again.
Hi spongio’s cereal.
I WANT MY SLAW!! I also doubt any animation exists for GJD. I met Desiree Goyette (Nermal’s original voice and songwriter for Garfield) last month and I asked her about GJD since there’s footage of her recording a song for the movie in Garfield’s 10th anniversary special. She told me asides from the movie being considered too dark by multiple studios, another factor in its cancelation was CBS demanding more money when they learned Davis wanted to make a movie, which led to Davis filing a lawsuit against CBS to take the rights to Garfield back. Goyette said the lawsuit cost so much that it took Davis a couple years afterward to recover financially. This makes me doubt any animation was ever done, though I do wonder if maybe there’s some storyboards that were used as reference for the illustrations in the GJD book.
GuineaPigDan I would love to hear any voice recording Lorenzo Music did. He had such an amazing and unique voice. Nobody has been able to do Garfield justice ever since Music died. All the voices of Garfield since Music died, have been absolutely horrendous.
I love Garfield that I don't even know how long I've been watching him! Can't wait for my Garfield birthday! :3
Who ate all the three cheese pizzas?
I ate those food.
I went here right after I watched SuperEyepatchWolf's documentary on the Garfield fandom.
Thomas Morton was definitely high the entire time
More like nutting, srsly creaming in that chair as well.
So many so called celebrities are high on the job. Pisses me off.
High on Garfield.
2:25 I want that Garfield bench!!
I want everything in the video lol
Could it be just a regular bench, but with Garfield sitting on it?
@@SirCaco I apologise for not knowing the interviewers name, but If you look closely at 2:20 it seems that he's leaning quite firmly on it, so it somehow would have made some sort of movement, so don't think it is an actual bench, I think Garfield is actually glued on there.
Thank you for this content
I can already see this going the way of Peanuts after Davis dies, because it's going to lose that thing that makes it truly special. Garfield will easily survive, but his essence will be gone.
Garfield is great. It's been a part of my family's reading material for 3 generations.
Happy birthday Garfield! You always start my sundays off great!
Finally a good content (not a sarcasm)
Ah I've loved garfield since I catched reruns of his show In the mid 90's. I own many buttons,pins, and book collections of the strip.
Thanks so much Mr. Jim Davis♡
Friday the 13th
Garfield: I sleep
Monday the 16th
Garfield: Oh Shit
HE ATE DOSE FOOD FOR 40 YEARS
Wait, Jim Davis is alive?
Love Garfield since I was a kid & is one of the inspiration(s) for my comic strip known as Coffee Monster (Facebook/Coffee Monster comic strips). I post one or two peices of art a week.
Loved the cartoon from the 90s
i thought this dude was dead.
Salted Fish lol me too! Damn.
Salted Fish Wow. He better not read that comment.
He better be
No you're thinking of Charles Schulz. The guy who did Peanuts. He died in 2000.
James Rallison from you know who said that he was dead.
I'm big fan of Garfield. I have tattoo Garfield! My fursona Laufield is Garfield's daughter
Amazing how Mr Davis actually looks like Garfield.
Yo, Jim has a great point with reason #1. I never really thought about that and how basically any political artist is hamstringing themselves to their country.
Very interesting perspective into syndicated media like that.
Should've asked about r/imsorryjon
That Garfield toy in the thumbnail is in the first minutes of Falling Down [1993]
Paws Inc looks hella dope, I wanna build studio like that
God bless this man who inspired every animators, and cartoonist in every generation.
Where did all the hamburger helper go?
one golden rule 1. *NO POLITICS* man thats awesome
LOL, Vice still can get over the fact that DRUMPF is president.
Also, why is the interviewer so nervous looking?
Tyler F
He hasn't said anything about DRUMPF in over FIVE MINUTES
I Wonder how many toilets Garfield books have been read in over the years. Gotta be millions...
Really nice building.
I had no idea Garfield moved that kind of money. Damn!
Should have asked him about what he thinks of Calvin and Hobbes and bill waterson approach to licensing
Amazing news 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
That man is a genius. God Bless Jim Davis.
"I'm sorry Jon."
This man is a genius!!!!
Happy late birthday Garfielf i hope you consume the lasagas
How do I get my hands on one of those jumbo garfield plushies I'll do anything
Where is my lasagna jhon
Coolest journalism assignment ever!
my dude, you've never been to Muncie...... lmao
Have you watched the old vice videos from 2009
Love Garfield !!!! Long Live Jim Davis !!
Does anyone remember that cancelled Garfield movie?
"Garfield's Judgment Day"?
Congrats for your cat cartoon!
As someone from Indiana, I'm sorry you and your team had to travel to Munice.
Myyy Childhooooddd😂😇🐱🎊🎉🎇🎆
“Congratulations on your Cat Cartoon” -Lasagna Cat
Congrats to the talking cat cartoon
GrimZANs̶ Garfield
I love Garfield, but have never seen Jim Davis. I almost didn't watch it, glad I did
That's cool - what about Lasagna Cat though?
Not showing him LasagnaCat and R/I'mSorryJon is such a missed opportunity