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Google tells me Jim Davis (the creator of Garfield) has a net worth of $500 billion. That's the kind of money Watterson turned his back on. And so, we'll never
by Fricken 3y ago
Google tells me Jim Davis (the creator of Garfield) has a net worth of $500 billion. That's the kind of money Watterson turned his back on.
And so, we'll never get to see the live action Calvin and Hobbes starting MacCauley Culkin and Jim Carrey as a wise-cracking tiger, nor any of it's sequels.
- chasingthewind 3y agoLooks like 500 million ish…guessing the billion is a mistype?
- Fricken 3y agoSorry, $5 billion is what Google is telling me. Mistype on my part, yes.
- kingofheroes 3y agoTheres Jim Davis, the creator of Garfield, and Jim Davis, the creator of the New Balance sneaker brand. The New Balance one is the billionaire.
- vlark 3y agoThat's such an ungodly pairing of actors, thank God Watterson walked away from it all.
- DougMerritt 3y agoSkipping the exact amount of money in the sibling thread, Jim Davis allowed truly massive merchandising -- I didn't follow it, so I have to make it up rather than give exact examples, but something along the lines of Garfield toys, Garfield pajamas, Garfield kids slippers, inflatable Garfield etc. etc. And that's why it was so much money, not from the strip itself. I'm pretty sure no one has ever made that kind of money just from a comic strip and reprints in books. But it was pretty well known that Watterson was pressured to do similar merchandising and he steadfastly refused. He had a strong distaste for such things. Just to be more precise about what Watterson was turning his back on. It's very sad for us as his audience that he ended his strip, but I can see his point about the merchandising.