Garfield celebrates his 34th birthday Tuesday and his creator says the smart-alecky cartoon cat who hates Mondays and loves lasagna has the moxie to outlive him.
“I personally would not be opposed to having someone carry on when I can’t do it,” said Jim Davis, 66, who launched the comic strip about a single guy who lives with his cat on June 19, 1978.
“The only reason I did this was to make people laugh, to make people feel better,” Davis told the Daily News. “That’s what really drives me, and if Garfield can continue to do that for 500 more years that would be great!”
Davis and his staff at Paws Inc. in Muncie, Ind., plan to celebrate Garfield’s birthday in Garfield style. READ MORE
