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Jim Davis
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American cartoonist
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1945-07-28
- Works
- 1132
Top works
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Bronze
- Prentice Hall Literature--Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes--Platinum
- Garfield
- Garfield Visits Rockwell-1997 Calendar
- Garfield - Le Début de la faim
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Film & TV
Writing · Marion, Indiana, USA
James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head. Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials…
Known for
- Stripped — Self2014
- Happy Birthday Garfield — Himself - Host1988
- Garfield and Friends1988
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1926-05-26
- Active to
- 1991-09-28
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 204
- Total plays
- 1,076
Singer, songwriter Jim Davis has raised his voice in song around the world—from Japan to the Philippines to Germany—with many world stops in-between. While in United States Air Force, Jim performed with the military’s Tops in Blue entertainment tours. Jim’s Life Story songs have a message easy to relate to about life and also an outreach quality to appeal to a universal audience. Jim offers a seamlessly spiritual and harmonious connection by incorporating a blend of different styles to deliver a
Academic profile · OpenAlex
- Works
- 849
- Cited by
- 38,090
Research areas
Most cited works
- Surface ionization and complexation at the oxide/water interface1978 · 1,542 cit
- Surface chemistry of ferrihydrite: Part 1. EXAFS studies of the geometry of coprecipitated and adsorbed arsenate1993 · 1,152 cit
- Peak-to-mean power control in OFDM, Golay complementary sequences, and Reed-Muller codes1999 · 1,008 cit
- Surface ionization and complexation at the oxide/water interface II. Surface properties of amorphous iron oxyhydroxide and adsorption of metal ions1978 · 962 cit
- Uranium(VI) adsorption to ferrihydrite: Application of a surface complexation model1994 · 894 cit
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner
· 2012 · cited 51,063x
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,495x
- <tt>edgeR</tt>
: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data
· 2009 · cited 39,691x
- Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology
· 2000 · cited 36,901x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,091x
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Key facts
- Born
- James Robert Davis , ( 1945-07-28 ) July 28, 1945 (age 80) , Marion, Indiana , U.S.
- Education
- Ball State University
- Occupations
- Cartoonist television writer television producer screenwriter film producer
- Years active
- 1969–present
- Notable work
- Garfield (1978–present) U.S. Acres (1986–1989)
- Parents
- James William Davis Anna Catherine Davis
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
James Robert Davis (born July 28, 1945) is an American cartoonist, screenwriter, and producer. He is the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres. Published since 1978, Garfield is one of the world's most widely syndicated comic strips. Davis's other comics work includes T.K. Ryan's Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat, and Mr. Potato Head.
Davis wrote or co-wrote all of the Garfield TV specials for CBS, originally broadcast between 1982 and 1991. He also produced Garfield and Friends, a series which also aired on CBS from 1988 to 1994. Davis was the writer and executive producer for a series of CGI direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as an executive producer for the CGI animated TV series The Garfield Show and Garfield Originals.
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