from the SPCA print ad
i was driven by the curiosity
to find out more about this dude
who owns Garfield
which i didn’t even have a single clue
what his name is
*quoted from Wiki*
Jon (Jonathan Q. Arbuckle) is Garfield's owner,
usually depicted as an awkward clumsy geek
who has trouble finding a date.
Jon also had a crush on Liz (Garfield's veterinarian)
and is now dating her.
Jon loves (or occasionally hates) Garfield and all cats.
Many gags focus on this;
his inability to get a date is
usually attributed to his lack of social skills,
his poor taste in clothes
(Garfield remarked in one strip after seeing his closet that
"two hundred moths committed suicide";
in another, the "geek police" ordered Jon to "throw out his tie"),
and his eccentric interests which range from
stamp collecting to measuring the growth of his toenails
to watching movies with "polka ninjas".
Other strips portray him as
lacking intelligence
(he is seen reading a pop-up book in one strip).
Jon was born on a farm that apparently
contained few amenities;
in one strip, his father, upon seeing indoor plumbing, remarks,
"Woo-ha! Ain't science something?"
Jon occasionally visits his parents, brother and grandmother
at their farm.
He first appeared on June 19, 1978
in the first ever Garfield comic strip.
His birthday has been revealed to be July 28
(which is the same as that of Jim Davis).
On December 23, 1980,
Jon tells Garfield that he is 30 years old
(he makes a joke about only being 29,
because he was sick a year).
This would make Jon's birth date July 28, 1950,
and his current age 61 years old.
By the way,
Jim Davis is born on July 28, 1945.
