OrangeGarfieldStripe

The Age above is the age of the original Garfield by Jim Davis, Not my age. The age will change on this date: July 19th,2011

GARFIELD INFO: (In my words.)

Garfield is your ordinary, orange, fat, lazy cat. He is usually sleeping, eating, or kicking his dog roomate, Odie of the table. Garfield has been existing for 32 years.

GARFIELD COMIC INFO:

Garfield is a comic strip created by Jim Davis. Published since June 19, 1978, it chronicles the life of the title character, the cat Garfield (named after Davis's grandfather); his owner, Jon Arbuckle; and Arbuckle's dog, Odie. As of 2007, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals, and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip.

CHARACTERS

ODIE:

Odie is Jon's other pet, a dog.

Odie first showed up on August 8th, 1978. Odie was originally belonged to Lyman, a friend or relative (not exactly sure) of Jon. Lyman moved in with Jon on August 7th, 1978.

LYMAN:

Lyman was a friend of Jon's, who lived with him for a while and was the original owner of Odie. Lyman was one of the main characters in the comic strip along with Garfield, Jon, and Odie. The comic strip usually had four main characters, but was reduced to the number three when Lyman was cut off by Jim Davis.

He first appeared on August 7, 1978. However, he had largely disappeared from the comic by 1983 and his disappearance was not fully elaborated upon at the time. His last appearance in the strip was a cameo on Garfield's 10th birthday, June 19, 1988, where he appears in the title panel seated between Jon's father and Liz, he also appears in a flashback panel within the strip.

Recently, Davis was forced to directly address the issue of "What happened to Lyman?" According to Davis, Lyman's original purpose was to be someone, who Jon could actually talk to and express other ideas -- a role more and more taken over by Garfield, himself. Once Lyman was no longer needed for that purpose, he was removed without explanation. Jim Davis has jokingly explained Lyman's sudden disappearance and long absence from the strip on different occasions either by saying that Lyman joined the Peace Corps and was then never heard from again or by saying, "Don't look in Jon's basement."

JON:

A nerdy and clumsy man, Jon is the owner of Garfield and Odie. He converses with Garfield and is often the butt of his jokes. In the animated Garfield and Friends, he was frequently portrayed as being