"Who created the comic strip ""Garfield""?"
Tumbleweeds (comic strip) Tumbleweeds (comic strip) Tumbleweeds is an American comic strip that offered a skewed perspective on life in the Old West. Writer-artist Tom K. Ryan (1926 – ) (who signed the strip "T.K. Ryan") was very familiar with conventions of the Western genre he satirized. Launched September 1965, the strip was distributed for decades initially by the Register and Tribune Syndicate and later by the King Features Syndicate after its acquisition. Jim Davis, who created "Garfield", was Ryan's assistant (from 1969 to 1978) while developing another strip, "Gnorm Gnat". After a 42-year run, Ryan retired and brought "Tumbleweeds" to a conclusion
Farmageddon (comic strip) Farmageddon (comic strip) Farmageddon started life in 1991 as a comic strip called 'The Funny Farm' and was created by Niel Bushnell & Gordon Fraser. Bushnell & Fraser were friends from school and both wanted careers as comic artists. They began to develop an idea for a newspaper comic strip based around a farm. Initially inspired by American comic strips such as Calvin & Hobbes and Garfield, the comic soon found its own blend of humour. The Funny Farm was published in the Hartlepool Mail from 1992 until 1994. It was also published in a short lived Sunday paper called