A very young Jim Davis

James Robert "Jim" Davis

Davis is the creator of the syndicated comic strip Garfield which
has been published since June 19, 1978. It holds the Guinness
World Record for being the most widely syndicated comic strip. 

 
Tim Maguire
 

Mel Brooks ( Melvin James Kaminsky) is 87 today

First Garfield strip

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978. It
chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield who named after Davis’s 
grandfather, his owner, Jon Arbuckle; 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.
 

Li’l Abner is a comic strip that appeared in many newspapers in the United
States, Canada and Europe, written and drawn by Al Capp. The strip ran for 
43 years, from August 13, 1934 through November 13, 1977.

Action Comics #1 features the first appearance of Superman, a creation of
Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. The publication is considered to be both the
genesis of the super-hero genre as well as the most valuable comic book 
of all time, with a single original copy selling for more than $2 million in
2011.

From left: Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster
who were originally paid only $130 by DC Comics in 1938.