Having grown up on a farm with 25 cats, Davis spent his asthmatic childhood indoors doodling, dreaming of becoming the next Charles Schultz. The lazy, wisecracking, mildly vicious feline with a taste for lasagna begrudgingly shares a domicile with dog Odie and human Jon Arbuckle. Davis spent a few years racking up one of the lowest cumulative grade-point-averages on file at Ball State University a dubious distinction shared by talk-show host David Letterman before assisting cartoonist Tom Ryan with his strip Tumbleweeds. After five years drawing his own strip, Gnorm Gnat for the Pendleton, Indiana daily, Davis moved on to a mammalian protagonist. Two syndicates turned down Garfield before United Features bit in

Wiki User. Abram President Garfield, not the cartoon cat. Garfield does not have a middle or last name. It doesn't seem that he has a middle name. One obscure source I found said it is "Abram" but this name is not listed anywhere else I could find.

Garfield is a fictional cat and the protagonist of the comic strip of the same name , created by Jim Davis. He is noted for his love of lasagna and sleeping, and his hatred of Mondays , fellow cat Nermal and exercise. As a kitten, he develops a taste for lasagna, which would become his favorite food.