Scott Nickel Jim Davis is best known as the creator of the comic strip Garfield. Davis has written (or in some cases co-written) all of the Emmy Award-winning or nominated Garfield TV specials and was one of the producers behind the Garfield & Friends TV show which aired on CBS from 1968 to 1995. Davis is the writer and executive producer of a trilogy of C.G. direct-to-video feature films about Garfield, as well as one of the executive producers and the creator for the new CGI-animated TV series The Garfield Show. He continues to work on the strip.