August Authors – Jim Davis – Garfield – International Cat Day
Author August: Else Hueck-Dehio & Stefan
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And I didn’t know it when I started working on this post last night, but today it is …
International Cat Day is a celebration which takes place on 8 August of every year. It was created in 2002 by the International Fund for Animal Welfare. It is a day to raise awareness for cats and learn about ways to help and protect them.
Bee says:
This month I challenge you to share one of your favourite authors every day. As an additional challenge also share a song that connects in some way with that author.
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As I mostly do, I’m featuring a favorite book instead of author. To me, favorite author means I get all their books and wish for more. If I like one book by an author, that doesn’t make them a favorite author, though the book might be.
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From Wiki article about Jim Davis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Davis_(cartoonist)
Jim Davis (cartoonist) James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world’s most widely syndicated comic strips.
THE TENTH GARFIELD TREASURY
“The Tenth Garfield Treasury”, was one I’d gotten at the library book sale a long time ago. I basically skimmed through the pages. I’ve read a lot of the Garfield books, and read the comics in newspapers for years. This one is a compilation of some of those, so are kind of recycled comics from another place.
It’s the usual antics that Garfield, the cat, gets up to with his cartoon family, Jon, and the dog, Odie. As always they are funny, and I love seeing the way they are drawn.
Garfield comics first made an appearance in 1978, the creation of Jim Davis. This book was printed in 1999, by Ballantine Publishing Group.
If you like comics, and cats doing funny things, you’ll like reading this one, too. 🙂
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Here’s some interesting information about the Garfield comics. The image in all products with the Garfield images, were illustrated by Mike Fentz, of Muncie, Indiana. Here’s a couple of biography and work related articles of his experience.
https://www.mikefentz.com/resumeclient.html
https://www.mikefentz.com/biocontact.html
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Now for a fun fact!
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My daughter used to live with Mike Fentz’s family in Indiana. She was attending college up there, at Ball State University, and needed a place to stay. Somehow she knew someone who made it happen that she was offered a place in their home for quite a while. 🙂
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“Stray Cat Strut”, by Stray Cats, is a single from their album, “Stray Cats/Built For Speed”. It was released in 1981 (UK) on the Arista label, and 1982 (US) on the EMI America label. It was written by Brian Setzer.
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