Missed It: Garfield’s 50th
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As everyone knows Garfield celebrates his birthday every year on June 19 because it was on that date in 1978 that Garfield began his syndicated newspaper comic strip. But cartoonist Jim Davis introduced Garfield and Jon two and a half years before that on January 8, 1976 as a weekly strip in The Pendleton Times.
The comic was titled Jon then but Garfield was there from the very first panel.
Those first four strips in January of 1976 would introduce the main cast of the the later syndicated Garfield.
The story of Jon can found here with a pdf of most of the Jon/Garfield strips from The Pendleton Times including when the title changed from “Jon” to “Garfield.”
to Overstreet for the reminder
We also covered Jim Davis’ pre-Jon comic strips.
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