History about Garfield

In the 1970s, Davis authored a strip, Gnorm Gnat; it met with mostly negative reviews. One editor told Davis that "[his] art [was] good, [his] gags [were] great", but "nobody can identify with bugs". Davis took his advice and created a new strip with a cat as its main character. The strip originally consisted of four main characters. Garfield, the titular character, was based on the cats Davis