Rangarira ndima iri pasi apa uye ipapo pindura mubvunzo gare gare mumutauro mumwe chetewo sechikamu:  Passage: Muma1970, Davis akagadzira comic strip inonzi Gnorm Gnat, iyo yakasangana nekubudirira kudiki. Mumwe mupepeti akati, "unyanzvi hwake hwaiva hwakanaka, majee ake akanga akaisvonaka", asi kuti "hapana munhu anogona kuzvizivisa amene nezvipembenene". Davis akasarudza kutarira kwenguva refu, zvakaoma pamabhuku enyambo ndokuona kuti imbwa dzakanga dzichiita zvakanaka kwazvo, asi kwakanga kusina katsi panguva iyoyo. Davis akafunga kuti sezvo akanga akurira papurazi raiva nemakati 25, aigona kugadzira mufananidzo wakavakirwa pamakati. Akabva atanga kugadzira mutsetse mutsva nekatsi semunhu mukuru uye nokudaro akagadzira Garfield, uyo anokwereta tsamba yekutanga yezita rake kubva kubasa rekare raDavis. Garfield pakutanga yaiva nevanhu vana vanokosha. Garfield, zita remunhu, rakavakirwa pamakati Davis aive akakomberedza achikura; akatora zita rake nehunhu kubva kuna sekuru vaDavis, James A. Garfield Davis, uyo aive, mumashoko aDavis, "murume mukuru, ane hasha". Jon Arbuckle akauya achibva kushambadziro yekofi yemakore ekuma1950, uye Odie akavakirwa pakushambadzira kwekutengesa mota kwakanyorwa naDavis, iyo yairatidza Odie the Village Idiot. Pakuvamba muStrip, muridzi waOdie akanga ari murume ainzi Lyman. Akanga akanyorwa kuti ape Jon mumwe munhu wokutaura naye. Davis akazoziva kuti Garfield naJon vaigona "kutaurirana vasingatauri". The strip, pakutanga centred pana Jon, yakatanga yakarambwa naMambo Features, Post-Hall uye Chicago Tribune-New York News masangano, zvose izvo akakumbira Davis kuti pfungwa pamusoro katsi, uyo mumaonero avo, akawana mitsetse nani. United Feature Syndicate yakagamuchira iyo yakagadziriswazve strip muna 1978 uye yakatanga mu 41 mapepanhau muna Chikumi 19 wegore iro (zvisinei, mushure mekuyedza kumhanya, iyo Chicago Sun-Times yakaidonhedza, chete kuti iidzorere mushure mekunyunyuta kwevaverengi). Peji yeSvondo yokutanga yaGarfield yakatanga musi wa25 Chikumi 1978, ichibudiswa somunhu wechitatu-pager kusvikira musi wa22 Kurume 1981. Hafu-peji yakatanga musi weSvondo wakatevera, Kurume 29, nemitsetse yaKurume 14 na21, 1982, iine chimiro chakasarudzika chemapuranga mapfumbamwe, asi UFS yakadzora kushandiswa kwayo (zvakadaro, yakabvumira Davis kushandisa fomati yeiyo US Acres strip).  Mubvunzo: Chii chakanga chine mavara mana?
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