Is Jim Davis Dead or Still Alive? Jim Davis Birthday and Age

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Jim Davis was born on July 28, 1945 and is 80 years old now.

Birthday: July 28, 1945
How Old - Age: 80

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Jim Davis - Biography

James Robert "Jim" Davis is an American cartoonist, best known as the creator of the comic strips Garfield and U.S. Acres, the former of which has been published since 1978 and has since become the world's most widely syndicated comic strip. Davis's other comics work includes Tumbleweeds, Gnorm Gnat and Mr. Potato Head.
Prior to creating Garfield, Davis worked for an advertising agency, and in 1969, he began assisting Tom Ryan's comic strip, Tumbleweeds. He then created a comic strip, Gnorm Gnat, that ran for five years in The Pendleton Times, an Indiana newspaper. When Davis attempted to sell it to a national comic strip syndicate, an editor told him: "Your art is good, your gags are great, but bugs—nobody can relate to bugs!"

On June 19, 1978, Garfield started syndication in 41 newspapers. Today it is syndicated in 2,580 newspapers and is read by approximately 300 million readers every day.
Davis founded the Professor Garfield Foundation to support children's literacy.
Davis has been married twice, first to Carolyn (Altekruse), who was allergic to cats, though they owned a dog named Molly. They have a son, James Alexander Davis. On July 16, 2000, Davis married his divorced wife, Jill, and had two more children: Ashley and Christopher.