Gnorm Gnat

Gnorm Gnat is an American gag-a-day comic strip by Jim Davis centered on a community of anthropomorphic insects, with the title character being the protagonist. The strip appeared weekly in The Pendleton Times in Pendleton, Indiana, the only newspaper to publish the strip, from 1973 to 1975, but failure to take the character to mainstream success led Davis to instead create the comic strip Garfield. Mike Peters, creator of Mother Goose and Grimm, has said that Gnorm Gnat is now a part of "cartoon folklore" as a failure that paved the way for major success.