Jeff Singh CANADA
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Garfield First Christmas Sunday Pencil Prelim 1978 - Jim Davis

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Location: Strip Art - Ones I Read Growing Up
Title: Garfield First Christmas Sunday Pencil Prelim 1978 - Jim Davis
Artist:  Jim Davis (All)
Media Type: Pencil
Art Type: Prelim
For Sale Status: NFS
Views: 644
Likes on CAF: 5
Comments: 3
Added to Site: 8/23/2023

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Description
June 19th, 1978 was the first day of syndication for Garfield after there was a short test run in a Chicago paper. Art from 1978 is extremely rare and is 100% all Jim Davis and so although not the finished and published piece, this is a really cool look at the raw pencils and designs of Davis in those early days. Notice the classic Garfield line "Big fat hairy deal" and Odie getting a kick from the grumpy feline. Fun stuff.

Technically Garfield started in a strip called Jon which was first published in January of 1976 and later changed it's name to Garfield in 1977. This was done for a smaller paper (Pendelton Times) and was not syndicated and only recently did the existence of this strip come into public knowledge. I don't know how often or when Garfield first appeared in that strip. TO the best of my knowledge, none of the originals for this earlier pre-syndication strip have been seen.

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Rick W Member Since 2017
1    
Posted On 8/23/2023

Finished or not, this is great!

Monty B Member Since 2006
1    
Posted On 8/24/2023

Love it!!! I also (by far) prefer the early Garfield...

Mike Rice Member Since 2003
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Posted On 8/24/2023

Since this is more than a (even Sunday) strip, you get a lot of gag for your dollar.There are some great Garfield images here. And I love the fact that since it is an early prelim, you know it's Davis and not one of his studio artists. Great pickup.