Garfield is the central character in Jim Davis's comic strip, which officially began in 1978 under the same name. Garfield is an orange tabby cat with a love of lasagna and a disdain for Mondays.

On May 30, 1990, the world received a new Garfield comic strip. This isn’t a big deal. We’ve been getting daily Garfield comic strips since 1978. We got a new one today! But 35 years ago, a ...

From 1976 to 1978, however, Jon Arbuckle, Garfield, and Odie all appeared in Jon, a little-known precursor to the strip that would become a banal fixture of American life that represents the ...