Jim Davis Net Worth

Net Worth:	$800 Million
Date of Birth:	July 28, 1945 (78 years old)
Gender:	Male
Profession:	Cartoonist, Screenwriter, Film Producer, Television producer
Nationality:	United States of America

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What is Jim Davis’s Net Worth?

Jim Davis is an American cartoonist who has a net worth of $800 million dollars. Jim Davis is credited with creating the hugely popular “Garfield” comic strip. Jim Davis has lots of awards and accolades to his name.

In addition to writing multiple “Garfield” television specials, he also produced the CBS television series “Garfield & Friends,” which broadcast from 1988 to 1994. He also wrote and produced a number of “Garfield” direct-to-video features. Jim also contributed to the Mr. Potato Head, Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and US Acres comic strips.

Early Life

James Robert Davis popularly known as Jim Davis was birthed on July 28, 1945, in Marion, Indiana. He was raised on a cattle farm in Fairmount, Indiana, along with his brother, father James, and mother Anna.

Jim Davis worked as the art editor of “The Breeze,” the school newspaper, while he was a student at Fairmount High School. “The Breeze” featured Jim’s first cartoon, and throughout his senior year, he produced a large number of images for the yearbook. He secured admission to Ball State University, where he studied business and art.

Career

Prior to the creation of “Garfield,” Davis had first worked at an advertising agency. Between 1969 and 1978, he worked as Tom Ryan’s assistant on the “Tumbleweeds” comic strip. Jim designed the “Gnorm Gnat” comic strip while working for Ryan, and it appeared in “The Pendleton Times” from 1973 until 1975.

The success of Snoopy in the “Peanuts” comic strip gave him the idea to create his own furry scene-stealer when he tried to sell “Gnorm Gnat” to a national comic strip syndicate but was told “nobody can relate to bugs.”

Garfield

From 1976 to 1978, Davis wrote the comic strip “Jon,” which would later go on to become “Garfield” in “The Pendleton Times.” In June 1978, the strip went global and started to appear in 41 newspapers. As of 2013, “Garfield” was syndicated in more than 2,500 newspapers, breaking the previous record for the most syndicated comic strip.

Personal Life

On July 26, 1969, Jim married Carolyn Altekruse; they had a son named James before their split. On July 16, 2000, Jim Davis married Jill, his second wife, and is the stepfather to her two children from a previous relationship.

As an alumnus of Ball State University, he was hired as an associate professor to teach the seminars “Drawing as a Cartoonist” and “The Sequential Narrative” along with delivering the lectures “The History and Development of Garfield” and “The Business of Garfield.”

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