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There are so many famous cats out there! From the big screen to the mobile internet we humans just can't seem to get enough.
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Famous Cats
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Garfield
Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis and published since 1978. It chronicles the life of the fat, lazy and dry humored title character Garfield, along with his owner Jon and Jon's dog Odie. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guiness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.
Felix the Cat
Felix the Cat is a funny animal cartoon character created in the silent film era. The anthropomorphic black cat with his black body, white eyes, and giant grin, coupled with the surrealism of situations in which his cartoons place him, combine to make Felix one of the most recognized cartoon characters in film history. Felix was the first character from animation to attain a level of popularity sufficient to draw movie audiences.
Sylvester
Sylvester the Cat, or sometimes called Puddy Cat or simply Sylvester, is a fictional character who is a three-time Academy Award winning anthropomorphic Tuxedo cat in the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies repertory. Often seen chasing Tweety Bird, Speedy Gonzales, or Hippety Hopper, the character deputed in Friz Freleng's Life With Feathers (1945) and went on to appear in 103 cartoons in the golden age.
Tom Cat
Tom from Tom and Jerry, the American animated series created in 1940 by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, is a grey anthropomorphic, short-haired cat who was originally known as Jasper during his first film deput. In his next appearance and thereafter he was known as Tom, and is usually spending his time attempting to catch Jerry Mouse with traps, but the traps generally backfire and cause damage to himself rather than Jerry.
The Cat in the Hat
The Cat in the Hat is a children's book written and illustrated by Theodor Geisel under the pen name Dr. Seuss and was first published in 1957. The Cat is a tall anthropomorphic cat who wears a red and white striped hat and a red bow tie. He shows up at the house of Sally and her unnamed borther one rainy day when their mother is away, causes some trouble with the children, but cleans up the mess miraculously before their mother returns home. In 2001 Publishers Weekly listed the book at number nine on its list of best-selling children's books of all time.
Puss in Boots
Puss in Boots, also known as Master Cat and The Booted Cat, is a European literary fairy tale about a cat who uses trickery and deceit to gain power, wealth and the hand of a princess in marraige for his penniless and low-born master. The oldest record of the written history dates from Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola who included it in his The Facetious Nights of Straparola (c. 1550). The tale was written in French and made famous by Charles Perrault at the close of the seventeenth century
Hello Kitty
Hello Kitty is a fictional character produced by the Japanese company Sanrio, who was created by Yuko Shimizu but is currently designed by Yuko Yamaguchi. She is depicted as an anthropomorphic white Japanese Bobtail cat wearing a red bow, and often featured wearing different outfits. Created in 1974, she turned 40 years old in 2014, and by then Sanrio had groomed Hello Kitty into a global marketing phenomenon worth $7 billion a year.
Grumpy Cat
Tardar Sauce also known as Grumpy Cat is a female cat and Internet celebrity known for her grumpy facial expression. Grumpy Cat's popularity originiated from a picture posted to the social news website Reddit by the owner's brother on September 22, 2012, and by December 2014 "The Official Grumpy Cat" Facebook page had over 8 million likes. Grumpy Cat was featured on the front page of The Wall Street Journal in May 2013, and the cover of New York Magazine in October of 2013.
Colonel Meow
Colonel Meow was adopted in 2011 and is a male Himalyan-Persian crossbreed cat who holds the 2014 Guiness World Record for the longest fur on a cat at 23 cm (9 inches). He became an Internet celebrity when his owners posted pictures of his scowling face to Facebook and Instagram. He was lovingly known by his thousands of followers as "an adorable fearsome dictator", "a prodigious Scotch drinker" and "the angriest cat in the world".
Maru
Maru is a male Scottish Fold cat from Japan who is known as the "Master of Boxes" and described as the most famous cat on the Internet. Maru is popular on YouTube and as of January 2016 his videos have been viewed over 300 million times.
Shironeko
Shironeko, whose name translates to "white cat" in Japanese, is an Internet celebrity known as "zen master cat" for his ability to be absolutely content 24/7. His photos feature his laid back demeanor and often include him sleeping and smiling at the same time while balancing things on his head or wearing silly things.