Editing Garfield (section)

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{{main|List of Garfield characters{{!}}List of ''Garfield'' characters}}
The strip's title character is [[Garfield (character)|Garfield]], an obese orange tabby cat. Garfield's personality is defined by his sarcasm, laziness, and gluttony, with the character showing a particular affinity for [[lasagna]]. His owner is [[Jon Arbuckle]], a man with an affinity for stereotypically [[nerd]]y pastimes. Jon's other pet is [[Odie]], a dim-witted yellow dog. Most strips center around interactions among the three characters' conflicting personalities. Regular themes include Jon's frustration with Garfield's antics; Garfield's disdain for Odie; and Jon's interactions with his girlfriend and the pets' [[veterinarian]], Dr. Liz Wilson. Many strips feature Jon, Garfield, and Odie visiting Jon's unnamed parents and brother Doc Boy on their family farm. Other side characters include various mice and spiders within the house, both frequent targets of abuse and scorn from Garfield; Garfield's [[teddy bear]] Pooky; Garfield's girlfriend Arlene, a pink cat; Nermal, a gray striped kitten who enjoys tormenting Garfield over his perceived age; and various other pets who live in the neighborhood.

Part of the strip's broad pop cultural appeal is due to its lack of [[social commentary|social]] or [[political commentary#Political cartoons|political]] commentary; though this was Davis's original intention, he also admitted that his "grasp of politics isn't strong", joking that, for many years, he thought "[[OPEC]] was a [[dental bonding|denture adhesive]]".<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://ew.com/article/1998/06/19/garfield-20-years-later/|title='Garfield' 20 years later|first=Beth|last=Johnson|magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]|access-date=June 19, 2020|date=June 19, 1998}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://ecentral.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/11/5/movies/12462084&sec=movies |title=Everybody loves Garfield |work=[[The Star (Malaysia)|The Star]] |location=Malaysia |access-date=January 19, 2022|archive-date=August 11, 2011|date=November 5, 2005|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110811140216/http://ecentral.my/news/story.asp?file=/2005/11/5/movies/12462084&sec=movies |url-status=dead}}</ref>

Originally created with the intentions to "come up with a good, marketable character",<ref name="wapocat">{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1982/12/12/lives-the-cat-that-rots-the-intellect/d6ed28c6-bee3-41ad-81f2-1839b34b87b1/|title=LIVES: The Cat That Rots the Intellect|access-date=June 23, 2019|last=Shapiro|first=Walter|date=December 12, 1982|newspaper=[[The Washington Post]]}}</ref> ''Garfield'' has spawned merchandise earning $750&nbsp;million to $1&nbsp;billion annually. In addition to the various merchandise and commercial tie-ins, the strip has spawned several animated television specials, two animated television series, two theatrical feature-length [[live-action animated]] films, three fully [[computer-animated]] [[direct-to-video]] films, and a theatrical computer-animated film.