“Our all alter ego”: Garfield inventor Davis is 80

New York – Probably the most famous comic cat in the world named the draftsman Jim Davis almost 50 years ago after his grandpa. “Garfield was my grandfather’s name,” said Davis, who turns 80 on Monday (July 28th), recently at an event of his former university in the US state of Indiana. “He was a big, strict man, but his eyes revealed him. He had a heart of gold and I thought that I wanted to create such a character.”