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Jim Davis
Jim Davis created "Garfield" in 1978, and the strip went on to become one of the most widely syndicated comic strips in the world, appearing in thousands of newspapers across dozens of countries at its peak circulation. Davis has said he deliberately designed Garfield around universally relatable, low-stakes themes, including laziness, hunger for lasagna, and disdain for Mondays, specifically to maximize the strip's broad, easily translatable appeal across different cultures and age groups rather than relying on topical or culturally specific humor. Garfield's commercial licensing became a substantial business in its own right, with Davis building an extensive merchandising operation, Paws, Incorporated, that has kept the character present across toys, television specials, and film adaptations for more than four decades. His combination of Garfield's record-setting global newspaper syndication and his extensive standalone licensing business has made Davis one of the most commercially successful cartoonists in publishing history.
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Matt Groening
Matt Groening created "Life in Hell," a self-syndicated alternative comic strip featuring anthropomorphic rabbits, in 1977, years before he developed "The Simpsons" as a series of short animated segments for "The Tracey Ullman Show" in 1987. "The Simpsons" launched as its own half-hour series in December 1989 and went on to become the longest-running scripted primetime television series in American history, and Groening reportedly named the show's central family after his own parents and sisters, with the character Bart being an anagram of "brat." Groening later created "Futurama" in 1999, a science-fiction animated comedy that developed its own dedicated fanbase and demonstrated Groening's ability to build a second successful animated franchise beyond "The Simpsons." His combination of creating the longest-running scripted primetime series in American television history and his later success with "Futurama" has made Groening one of the most commercially significant cartoonists in the history of American animated television.
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