U.S. Acres

U.S. Acres
U.S. Acres logo featuring the strip's main character Orson the pig
Author(s)	Jim Davis Brett Koth
Website	www.garfield.com
Current status / schedule	Currently in reruns as a webcomic
Launch date	March 3, 1986
End date	Original print run ended April 14, 1989. Reruns began appearing on Garfield.com on October 1, 2010.
Alternate name(s)	Orson's Place (Canada) Orson's Farm (other countries)
Syndicate(s)	United Features Syndicate
Genre(s)	Humor
Preceded by	Garfield (1978–present)

U.S. Acres (known as Orson's Farm outside the United States and as Orson's Place in Canada) is a comic strip that originally ran from 1986 to 1989, created by Jim Davis, author of the popular comic strip Garfield.

U.S. Acres was launched on March 3, 1986 in a then-unprecedented 505 newspapers by United Feature Syndicate. For most of the last year of the strip's existence, Brett Koth, who had been assisting Davis on Garfield at that time, was given co-creator's credit in the strip, and signed his name to the strips along with Davis. The strip was centered on a group of barnyard animals, with the main character being Orson, a small pig who had been taken from his mother shortly after being born.

At the peak of the comic's popularity, there were children's books, plush animals (particularly of the characters Roy, Booker, Sheldon, and Orson), and posters of the main characters. Its animated adaptation was included in the TV show Garfield and Friends, and continued to be so for several years after the strip ended.

While popular, it was not well received in the industry, with many cartoonists openly criticizing it as "plotless". The final daily strip was printed on April 14, 1989, while the final Sunday appeared on May 7, 1989. Most papers only ran the Sunday strip, usually in the same page as Garfield.

The strip was relaunched as an online webcomic on October 1, 2010 the date going back to March 3, 2010. The relaunch was announced the day before in a question and answer column in USA Today. Later, in celebration of U.S. Acres's twenty-fourth anniversary, the strips prior to August 1, 1986 were released on Garfield.com.

The comic strip can be viewed at GoComics as of March 3, 2012, which is the 26th anniversary of its original debut. On August 7, 2016, a Garfield comic strip showed the US Acres gang (except for Bo) in its logo box, featuring Garfield eating a bag of feed.

Five comic strip collections were published, by Topper Books of New York City.

Also, at least six comic strip collections were published by Berkley Books of New York City. However, some of these books are missing months of the strip and / or have strips out of order.

The final two months of U.S. Acres were not published as part of an American collection. The last U.S. Acres collection was published in England as a mass-market paperback, titled Orson's Farm Cuts the Corn. The collection, which has since gone out of print along with the rest of the U.S. Acres books, contains fifty-nine of the final sixty strips (one Sunday strip was not printed) and is the rarest of any U.S. Acres/Orson's Farm collection.