is_a_list_of list of characters in the garfield franchise
A ___MASK71___ is a ___MASK73___ , usually a periodical ___MASK73___ , which is printed or electronically published ( sometimes referred to as an online ___MASK71___ ). Magazines are generally published on a regular schedule and contain a variety of content . They are generally financed by advertising , by a purchase price , by prepaid subscriptions , or a combination of the three . At its root , the word " ___MASK71___ " refers to a collection or storage ___MASK4___ . In the case of written ___MASK73___ , it is a collection of written articles . This explains why ___MASK71___ publications share the word root with gunpowder magazines , ___MASK13___ magazines , firearms magazines , and , in French , retail stores such as department stores . A ___MASK7___ is a serial ___MASK73___ containing news about current events , other informative articles ( listed below ) about politics , sports , arts , and so on , and advertising . A ___MASK7___ is usually , but not exclusively , printed on relatively inexpensive , low - grade paper such as newsprint . The journalism organizations that publish newspapers are themselves often metonymically called newspapers . As of 2017 , most newspapers are now published online as well as in print . The online versions are called online newspapers or news websites . Newspapers are typically published daily or weekly . News magazines are also weekly , but they have a magazine format . General - interest newspapers typically publish news articles and feature articles on national and international news as well as local news . The news includes political events and personalities , business and finance , crime , weather , and natural disasters ; health and medicine , science , and computers and technology ; sports ; and entertainment , society , food and cooking , clothing and home fashion , and the arts . A comic strip is a sequence of drawings arranged in interrelated panels to display brief humor or form a ___MASK44___ , often serialized , with text in balloons and captions . Traditionally , throughout the 20th century and into the 21st , these have been published in newspapers and magazines , with horizontal strips printed in black - and - white in daily newspapers , while Sunday newspapers offered longer sequences in special color comics sections . With the development of the internet , they began to appear online as web comics . There were more than 200 different comic strips and daily cartoon panels in American newspapers alone each day for most of the 20th century , for a total of at least 7 , 300 , 000 episodes . Odie is a ___MASK60___ , who appears in the Jim Davis comic strip " Garfield ". He has also appeared in Garfield and Friends , The Garfield Show , as well as two live - action / computer - animated feature films , and three fully CGI films . Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis . Published since 1978 , it chronicles the life of the ___MASK70___ ___MASK1___ , the cat Garfield , Jon , his owner , and Jon ' s dog , Odie . 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 . The history of comics has followed different paths in different cultures . Scholars have posited a pre - history as far back as the Lascaux ___MASK42___ paintings . By the mid - 20th century , comics flourished particularly in the United States , western Europe ( especially in France and Belgium ), and Japan . The history of European comics is often traced to Rodolphe Töpffer ' s cartoon strips of the 1830s , and became popular following the success in the 1930s of strips and books such as " The Adventures of Tintin ". American comics emerged as a mass medium in the early 20th century with the advent of newspaper comic strips ; magazine - style comic books followed in the 1930s , in which the superhero ___MASK21___ became prominent after Superman appeared in 1938 . Histories of Japanese comics and cartooning ("") propose origins as early as the 12th century . Modern comic strips emerged in Japan in the early 20th century , and the output of comics magazines and books rapidly expanded in the post - World War II era with the popularity of cartoonists such as Osamu Tezuka . had a lowbrow reputation for much of its history , but towards the end of the 20th century began to find greater acceptance with the public and in academia . This is a list of characters in the Garfield comic strip , created by Jim Davis . It includes notable characters from the comic strip as well as cartoons , and movies centered on the Garfield ___MASK1___ , and is organized by what medium they appeared in first .