Jim Davis is the creator of the comic strip and marketing phenomenon “Garfield” which today is syndicated in 2,400 newspapers and is read by 200 million loyal readers each day. Davis grew up on a small farm in Fairmount, Indiana, with his parents Jim and Betty, a brother Dave, and 25 cats. His childhood asthma kept him inside a lot; so to amuse himself he doodled. He went on to graduate from Ball State University. Prior to creating Garfield, Jim Davis worked for a local advertising agency, and in 1969 took a job as an assistant to “Tumbleweeds” creator Tom K. Ryan, where he learned...