Garfield Expanded Universe Wiki



Welcome to the official GEU Wiki!
Welcome! Here you can find all sorts of information on all characters and events included in the ever growing GEU!

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What is the GEU?
The Garfield Expanded Universe was originally created by Jim Davis. in 1978, the original 616 universe chronicles the life of the title character, Garfield, the cat; Jon Arbuckle, the human; and Odie, the dog. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.

Though this is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield is set in Muncie, Indiana, the home of Jim Davis, according to the television special Happy Birthday, Garfield. Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, coffee, and disdain of Mondays and diets. The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but other recurring minor characters appear as well. Originally created with the intentions to "come up with a good, marketable character" Garfield has spawned merchandise earning $750 million to $1 billion annually. In addition to the various merchandise and commercial tie-ins, the strip has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature-length live-action/CGI animated films, and three fully CGI animated direct-to-video movies.

Since the creation of the Earth-616 Garfield, There have been an ever growing amount of different incarnations of the Garfield character; which this Wiki is based on.

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