你知道吗？有这样一只cat小猫，它不单把主人指挥地团团转，而且好吃懒做，还瞧不起它的同伴，欧迪，—只宠物狗。可是我们人人却都喜爱它。它就是我们的Garfield加菲猫！其中原因也许只有看过《加菲猫》的人才能真正了解。

Hi, 下面我们就来看看Garfield的几条mottoes座右铭吧：

Garfield Is So Lazy... ...

He has a doorman open the refrigerator for him. ...

He only chases dead mice. ... ...

He thinks yawning is an exercise

哇，加菲猫确实够cool，连打哈欠也当作一种运动，还雇了个冰箱开门人。真是一个地道的懒惰的单身汉！

Garfield's Diet[1] Tips

Never go back for seconds. Get it all the first time.

Vegetables are a must. I recommend carrot cake and pumpkin pie.

Never start a diet cold turkey. (Maybe cold roast beef, cold pizza...).

Hang around people fatter than you.

哈，哈，哈，加菲猫的减肥秘诀真是爱煞人也。“决不回去拿第二次食物。因为一次就要拿个够”；加菲猫推荐的绿色食品是“红萝卜蛋糕和南瓜派”。当然即使没办法减掉体重，也不要紧，因为你总能找到比人胖的人做伴！

想知道是哪个奇才创造出独一无二加菲猫的形象吗？请看“画家小传”。

A Brief Biography about the Artist:

I was born July 28, 1945 in Marion, Indiana. I was promptly dropped on my head, explaining my lifelong desire to become a cartoonist.[1] Because I was asthmatic[2] as a kid and spent a lot of time in bed, Mom used to shove a pencil and paper in my hand urging me to draw to entertain myself. I was so bad I had to label everything. Fortunately, my art and writing style improved over the years. Garfield began syndication[3] with only 41 papers on June 19, 1978. But his faithful following of cat lovers and pasta[4] addicts[5] has grown into the millions, and the tubby tabby now appears in over 2600 newspapers worldwide!

看完画家的自我介绍，才知道只有这样的幽默天才才能创造出加菲猫。一个出生时头先着地所以一辈子充满幻想的孩子，一个躺在病床上画卡通自我娱乐的孩子，一个画技太差，而不得不把画上标明要画的形象的名称的孩子，长大后，千辛完苦地要当卡通画家，并且终于有了自己的“加菲猫”，加入了报业辛迪加，并且这只胖乎乎加菲猫成为上百万忠实的热爱小猫和意大利通心粉的人的最爱！

下面我们再来听听，他怎样想出加菲猫这个形象的吧。

How did I think up Garfield?

I had tried a comic strip based on a bug[, Gnorm Gnat. Comic strip[6] editors at the syndicates thought there was something there, but bugs? Who can relate to bugs? So I took a long look at the comics pages and noticed there were a lot of dogs doing quite well. There was Snoopy, Belvedere, and Marmaduke -- but no cats! So I took my memories of all the cats I remembered from my childhood home -- on a country farm it's not unusual to have dozens of cats -- and I combined those traits[7] with those of my grandfather, James Garfield Davis, and Volla! Garfield was born.

作者先是想画 一套以一只虫子——哥诺姆?哥奈特为主要人物的连环画。但不幸的是编者们不喜欢虫子作主角的连环画，怎么办呢？他就猛看连环画，终于发现了一条真理：很多卡通狗在连环画市场中都干得不错。但是却没有小猫出现在上面！加菲猫就这样诞生了！当然加菲猫不是一只真正的猫，它是几打作者自己家养的家猫的糅合体。