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a fat orange cat who hates mondays and turned that into a media empire.
means a syndicated comic strip about a lasagna-obsessed, dog-tormenting house cat, and by extension the cat himself as a cultural icon.
from created by jim davis in 1978, named after his own grandfather james garfield davis, who was reportedly just as grouchy as the cat.
guinness recordmost syndicated comic strip in the world, 2700+ papers.
no arcdavis designed it with zero topical or political jokes, ever.
odie's dumbnessdavis made odie mute and dumb so garfield could monologue.
for instance
garfield gets real — 2007 fan-made horror recut that went viral for its unsettling silence.
garfield kart — a real licensed racing video game released in 2013.
garfield phones mystery — decades of garfield phone parts washing up on french beaches, solved 2019.