Paws, Inc.

Trade name	Paws, Incorporated
Company type	Subsidiary
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	1981; 44 years ago (1981), inMuncie, Indiana
Founder	Jim Davis
Headquarters	5555 Melrose Avenue, Los Angeles, California, United States , United States
Key people	Jim Davis (CEO)
Products	Film production Television production Comics Films
Brands	Garfield U.S. Acres
Parent	Paramount Consumer Products (2019-present)

Paws, Inc.,doing business asPaws, Incorporated, is an Americancomic studio andproduction company founded by American cartoonistJim Davis in 1981^[1] to support theGarfield comic strips and its licensing. The company is located at theParamount Pictures studio lot inLos Angeles. It was originally located inMuncie, Indiana, relocated in 1989 from Davis' own farm when he was a boy,^[2] and then was relocated toOne Astor Plaza in New York City after being acquired in 2019 by the second incarnation ofViacom months before its re-merger with CBS.

In 1994, the company purchased all rights to the classicGarfield comic strips from 1978 to 1993 fromUnited Feature Syndicate, although United still holds the original black-and-white daily strips and original color Sunday strips. The full-color daily strips and recolored Sunday strips are copyrighted to Paws as they are considered a different product. The strip is currently distributed byAndrews McMeel Syndication (formerly Universal Press Syndicate and Universal Uclick), while rights for the strip remain with Paws, Inc. By 2015, the company employed almost fifty artists and administrators.^[3]

In 2019,Davis sold Paws, Inc. to the second incarnation ofViacom, which would later re-merge withCBS Corporation to form ViacomCBS, later renamed toParamount Global, including global merchandising and existing licensees. The deal put Paws under Paramount'sNickelodeon banner (which itself is part of its Kids & Family division).^[4] The deal excluded the rights to the live-actionGarfield films from 2004 to 2006, which are still owned by20th Century Studios (which is now a division ofThe Walt Disney Company),^[4] as well as the animated filmThe Garfield Movie, which is owned and distributed bySony Pictures under itsColumbia Pictures label.^[5] Although Paws, Inc. is now effectively located at the Paramount Pictures lot in Los Angeles as of the August 2025 formation of the current parent companyParamount Skydance Corporation, Davis still continues to draw the comic strips in Indiana for newspapers and Andrews McMeel Syndication.^[6]

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