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Author | Jim Davis |
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Language | English |
Series | Garfield |
Genre | Humor |
Publisher | Ballantine Books |
Publication date | October 12, 1984 |
Publication place | United States |
Pages | 128 |
ISBN | 978-0345320612 |
OCLC | 11361460 |
Garfield: His 9 Lives is a 1984 book of illustrated short stories that showcase the "nine lives" of Jim Davis' comic strip character Garfield. The book is divided into ten segments; the first one displays the creation of cats in general, where the latter nine reveal events in Garfield's nine lives. Each of the nine stories has a short preface of Garfield in his modern incarnation, and explains how these various lives shaped aspects of Garfield's personality, such as the origin of his fear of the veterinarian, his love of grinny behavior, his proclivity for a slothful lifestyle, and his extremely playful side. The book was later adapted into an animated television special in 1988, and a comic book by Boom! Studios from 2014 to 2015.
Garfield: His 9 Lives | |
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Created by | Jim Davis |
Written by | Jim Davis David Kuhn (segment "In the Garden") Jim Clements (segment "Space Cat") George Herriman (uncredited) |
Directed by | Phil Roman Doug Frankel Ruth Kissane Bill Littlejohn Bob Nesler Bob Scott George Singer John Sparey |
Starring | Lorenzo Music Thom Huge Gregg Berger Desirée Goyette |
Narrated by | Gregg Berger (segment "Cave Cat") |
Music by | Ed Bogas and Desirée Goyette Lou Rawls (vocals) |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Producer | Phil Roman |
Running time | 48 min. |
Production companies | Film Roman United Media Paws, Inc. |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | November 22, 1988 |
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An one-hour-long television adaptation was produced in 1988, being the eighth of twelve Garfield television specials. It featured ten separate segments, just like the book. Six of these were adapted from the book, and an additional four were newly written for the show. The special aired on CBS on November 22, 1988. [1]
The special was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program, losing to Garfield's Babes and Bullets , itself a standalone adaptation of the eponymous segment from the book. The special is included on the DVD Garfield's Fantasies . In 2018, a DVD version was released.
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From 2014 to 2015, Boom! Studios adapted His 9 Lives across four comics, with each story drawn by a different artist. It can be seen as a hybrid of the book and the special as, like the special, it features several lives created exclusively for it. Garfield's eighth life, the current one, is also left out altogether, with each life's prologue instead being set during the eighth life. [2]
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Garfield: Caught in the Act is a 1995 side-scrolling platform game developed and published by Sega for the Genesis and Game Gear. A Microsoft Windows version followed. It is based upon Jim Davis' comic strip cat, Garfield, and draws inspiration from Davis' 1984 book Garfield: His 9 Lives. Odie scares Garfield while they are watching television and they fall on the TV, breaking it. Both characters attempt to repair it before Jon Arbuckle catches them; however, the thrown spare parts become an electronic monster known as the Glitch, transporting Garfield into the TV, where he must defeat him in order to get out.
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties is a 2006 adventure comedy film directed by Tim Hill and written by Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow. It is the sequel to the 2004 film Garfield: The Movie and a loose remake of Mark Twain's 1881 novel The Prince and the Pauper. The film stars Breckin Meyer, Jennifer Love Hewitt, and Bill Murray reprising their respective roles as Jon Arbuckle, Dr. Liz Wilson, and the voice of Garfield. New cast members include Billy Connolly, Ian Abercrombie, Roger Rees, Lucy Davis and Oliver Muirhead in live-action roles and Tim Curry, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans, Vinnie Jones, Joe Pasquale, Richard E. Grant, and Jane Leeves as the voices of the film's new animal characters. In the film, Garfield, Odie, Liz and Jon travel to the United Kingdom, where Prince, another cat that looks exactly like Garfield, is ruling over a castle after the death of his owner. His reign is soon jeopardized by an evil aristocrat, who plans to remodel the castle into condominiums, destroy the estate, and get rid of Prince.
Garfield Gets Real is a 2007 American animated adventure comedy film based on the comic strip Garfield. It was produced by Paws, Inc. in cooperation with Davis Entertainment, and The Animation Picture Company and distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment. It was written by Garfield's creator Jim Davis, who started working on the script in the autumn of 1996. It is the third Garfield film, after Garfield and Garfield: a Tail of 2 Kitties. This was the first fully animated Garfield production since the 1991 television special Garfield Gets a Life, and the series finale of Garfield and Friends. The DVD was shipped to stores on August 9, 2007. Gregg Berger, an actor from the original series, reprises his role of Odie, but Garfield was voiced by veteran voice actor Frank Welker, since the original actor Lorenzo Music died six years earlier in 2001. Jon is voiced by Wally Wingert, as Thom Huge retired that same year. The film received unfavorable reviews.
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Garfield merchadise is the merchandise based on the "Garfield" comic strip by Jim Davis. Garfield is one of the world's most prominent and widely syndicated comic strips, and was specifically designed to be marketable. Before the sale of Paws, Inc. in August 2019, all the profits from merchandise went to Paws, Inc., of which Jim Davis is the CEO and founder. The following is a compiled list of selected merchandise based on the franchise.
The Garfield television specials are a series of twelve half-hour long American animated television specials based on the Garfield comic strip of the same name created by Jim Davis. Most specials were directed by Phil Roman, written by Davis, and featuring the voice of Lorenzo Music as the character. The specials were originally broadcast on CBS from 1982 to 1991. Although the first two specials were produced by Lee Mendelson Films, this boutique studio was fully committed to the production of the Peanuts animated specials and could not allocate resources for the Garfield specials. All of the remaining Garfield specials were produced by Roman's own production company and namesake Film Roman.