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Charles Schulz's Peanuts and Jim Davis' Garfield are the two most beloved comic strips of all time, and not only did the creators influence each other, but Schulz actually redesigned Davis' creation as a personal favor. This was no one-time change, either, with Davis incorporating Schulz's alteration into what fans would consider Garfield's modern design.

In an interview with Heritage Auctions (included below), Davis discusses how Schulz redesigned his iconic tabby cat. Animating Garfield's first TV special, 1982's Here Comes Garfield, Davis realized that Garfield's design made it impossible for the cartoon cat to dance over the credits as he'd intended.

"I was having a terrible time with it," Davis admits, "because he had these tiny little feet and this big round body." Thankfully, Davis quickly discovered that Charles Schulz was just one room over, working on a Peanuts special. Not only did Schulz have the answer -...

Chris Pratt feels "grateful" and "blessed" to put his spin on the lasagna-obsessed, Monday-hating cat in The Garfield Movie. Pratt follows in the footsteps of fellow Garfield voice actors Lorenzo Music and Bill Murray. The first half-hour TV special featuring the animated, orange tabby Persian cat, Here Comes Garfield (1982), aired over 40 years ago.

Here Comes Garfield (1982) was the first of the lasagna-loving felines half-hour television specials, and it introduced the late Lorenzo Music as the voice of the animated, orange tabby Persian cat. In 2004, Bill Murray took up the mantle for the big screen in Garfield: The Movie. Today, the legacy of Jim Davis kitty creation falls into the hands of Chris Pratt. And the Marvel Cinematic Universe mainstay feels grateful and blessed to voice the fat cat in The Garfield Movie. Pratt discussed putting his own unique spin on the character in an interview with Moviefone. The actor said:

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An orange cat with a hunger for lasagna and a hatred of Mondays made a big impression with his first primetime special, Here Comes Garfield, more than four decades ago.

The lovably sarcastic feline, who returns to the big screen May 24 in Sony’s The Garfield Movie, was created by cartoonist Jim Davis.

Garfield’s self-titled comic strip — featuring the cat giving guff to owner Jon Arbuckle and blissfully oblivious canine nemesis Odie — landed national syndication in 1978, followed by his first book, 1980’s Garfield at Large, topping the New York Times best-seller list.

While working on Here Comes Garfield, Davis struggled to make the cat stand up and dance, but got some assistance from his hero, Peanuts creator Charles M. Schulz, who happened to be working in the same studio. “He started drawing over my drawing, saying, ‘The problem is, you’ve made Garfield’s feet too small,’ ” Davis once said in an interview.

Sandy Kenyon was a familiar face in films and television from the early 1950s, and was featured in several episodes of the original Twilight Zone including “The Odyssey of Flight 33″, “The Shelter”, and “Valley of the Shadow”.

He was born Sanford Klein in the Bronx, New York, on August 5, 1922, and served in the Army Air Corps as a pilot during World War II. He returned to New York after the war to pursue a career as an actor. After several years on the New York stage, he moved to Los Angeles to further his career. He starred as Des Smith in the television adventure series Crunch and Des with Forrest Tucker from 1955 to 1956. His numerous television credits also include episodes of Steve Canyon, Richard Diamond, Private Detective, Boris Karloff’s Thriller, Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, The Wild Wild West, I Spy, The Invaders, The Most Deadly Game, Kung Fu,...