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.

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 ...

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 ...