In 1973, newspapers around the country saw the debut of artist George Gately's Heathcliff, a single-panel comic strip about a mischievous orange tabby who menaces dogs and haunts local fish markets.

The comic strip has birthed an animated series and even a Marvel comic over the years. By Borys Kit Senior Film Writer Move over Garfield, there’s a new cat in town. Or rather, the previous cat is ...

Enter Heathcliff, another orange cat who, despite being created five years before Garfield debuted, has always played second fiddle in the funny feline space. But he’s also persevered into the digital ...

I have very faint memories of watching the animated Heathcliff series on television when I was a kid, but a whole new audience is about to experience the wise-cracking cat on the big screen. Waterman ...

The public will forever associate Heathcliff with Garfield. The reverse is not true because Garfield is so much more popular, successful, and ubiquitous that critics sometimes dismiss Heathcliff as a ...

RIDGEWOOD, N.J. - George Gately, the creator of the "Heathcliff" newspaper comic about the antics of a rotund cat, has died. He was 72. Gately died Sunday of a heart attack at Valley Hospital in ...

Two rows of fresh fish chill on ice outside the Elite Fish Market in the colorful port town of Westfinster. From behind the counter, the fishmonger, Mr. Schultz, looks on incredulously. “Geo Gately,” ...

There’s vibrant color, engaging imagery and a strong sense of subversiveness. And at the center of Carole Caroompas’ posthumous exhibit at Laguna Art Museum is Heathcliff. But this is no “Wuthering ...