when is garfields birthday and how old will he be?

Question

i saw on his comic strip that it is close to his birthday...so whens the big day?

Answer 1

june 19th, 1978... 28

Answer 2

June 19, 1978 Garfield 28 years young

Answer 3

JUNE 19!!! I am a Garfield fan!!! I know for a fact that it is on June 19, the day his first comic strip came in newspapers. That is what is known as his birthday.

*Sorry, earliar I did a typo, I was writing very fast. His birthday is June 19!!! Here is his first comic strip.

http://www.garfield.com/comics/comics_archives_strip.html?1978-ga780619

Also, he will be 28 years old

Answer 4

Garfield's birthday is June 19, 1978 and he'll be 28.

Answer 5

Garfield is 30 today (July 19, 2008). The comic strip was started in 1978. In past strips he tells what age he is on his birthday.

Answer 6

well that orange mothafucker will turn 20 because he was introduce in 1986

Answer 7

in june.he is 2 years old. his are wont increase.he is immortal.

Answer 8

JUNE 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 9

Garfield

GarfieldFat orange cat with distinctive black stripes and an attitude. He hates Mondays (not applicable if it's also his birthday), loves to eat and sleep (both to amazing amounts and sometimes he will do both at the same time), watch TV, and play jokes on Jon and Odie. He enjoys tormenting the mailman. His favorite food is lasagna, and he loves to snack on canaries ("you can't eat just one canary!") and Jon's house plants; however, he hates raisins and spinach. He refuses to eat mice ("Show me a good mouser, and I'll show you a cat with bad breath"), and has befriended several. He does, however, hate spiders. He is in #8 of his 9 lives. He first appeared on June 19, 1978.

In the animated series and prime-time specials, he was voiced by Lorenzo Music.

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Jon Arbuckle

Jon ArbuckleGarfield and Odie's owner, a total nerd and clumsy individual who is extremely pathetic in the world of dating and coolness. He is constantly striking out when trying to get dates with women, perhaps due to his ridiculous pick-up lines (said to a woman in the grocery store: "you must be today's special, because you're making me hungry") or loud and flashy outfits. His biggest crush is Dr. Liz Wilson, Garfield and Odie's vet, who has gone out with him a few times but the dates were usually unsuccessful. In the strip of December 19, 1981 his dream finally came through and Liz and Jon kissed each other. Jon is the primary fodder and conversation partner to Garfield and is often the butt of his jokes. He was (possibly still is, due to it never being contradicted) a cartoonist, but this reference has not been seen since the early days of the comic strip. Whatever his occupation, Jon still manages to make enough money to keep Garfield in lasagna -- no easy feat. Often, Jon, as well as Garfield, gets bored, and comes up with "fun" ways to cure boredom (such as buying new socks, clipping his toenails, or playing "Guess the Burp" with Garfield). His full name has been revealed as Jonathan Q. Arbuckle (the "Q" might stand for "Quack") in a Christmas strip. He first appeared on June 19, 1978. 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 birthdate July 28, 1950, and his current age 56 years old (though, as with most comic strip characters, Jon has shown no signs of physically aging over the course of the strip). In the live-action films (such as Garfield: The Movie and Garfield's A Tale of Two Kitties), he became Dr. Liz Wilson's "boyfriend/partner". He was voiced by Sandy Kenyon in Here Comes Garfield and subsequently by Thom Huge.

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Odie

OdieLovable but dopey yellow-furred, brown-eared dog constantly panting with his very large tongue, and the only character without a "voice". (However, he was once shown to be thinking "I'm hungry", and in Garfield in the Rough, he "says" "I'm afraid!" over and over, faster and faster, in the "Run, Run!" scene (though this is not confirmed). He also says "I don't know, I'm kinda scared," as a "mistake" in the cartoon episode "Mistakes Will Happen". More recently, he was seen actually speaking in one of Garfield's dream sequences. [1]) One strip shows him enjoying classical music on the TV with a novel, War and Peace, in his lap after Jon and Garfield leave the house. Often kicked off the table by Garfield (Once Odie tried to push Garfield off the table, but Garfield was too heavy. [2]) or the victim of some practical joke. Odie's original owner was Lyman, a friend and roommate to Jon Arbuckle. He first appeared on August 8, 1978. However, Lyman disappeared in 1983 and Odie became a pet to Jon. Odie is, to Garfield, a complete slobbering idiot (though it's not the actual case since Odie did manage to take revenge on Garfield occasionally, and Garfield usually cannot notice it). He is rarely seen without his giant tongue and drooling. Recently, Odie seems to be walking on two feet more often (mainly as of 2000). In animation, his barks are provided by Gregg Berger and Frank Welker.

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Arlene

ArleneGarfield's on-and-off girlfriend. A thin pink cat who seems to be the only one living thing in the world who can successfully crack jokes at Garfield on a regular basis. She has distinctively big lips and a very long and thin neck. Earlier in the series she also had a gap between her teeth, which Garfield pointed out as much as possible, being usually the only "ammunition" he had against Arlene's wisecracks at his expense. Arlene appeared far more often in the early years of the strip than in recent times, as the strip seemed to gravitate more towards Garfield and Jon as bachelors. She first appeared on December 17, 1980. Although she never appeared on the animated series (with the exception of a cameo appearance in the fourth season), she appeared in the film version as well.

In the book Garfield's Judgment Day, it was revealed she was a stray cat, which she had never revealed to Garfield until emergency situations brought it to light.


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Pooky

PookyGarfield's huggable teddy bear. First appearance was October 23, 1978. The strip shows Garfield searching through Jon Arbuckle's bottom drawer, finding Pooky, and adopting him as his own. Once, Pooky lost an eye for several comic strips until it was replaced the following Christmas. Garfield looks at Pooky as the only one that he can truly trust in. Outside of dream sequences and the like, Pooky has never been "brought to life" (as in the case of Hobbes of the comic strip Calvin and Hobbes) "on camera" in the strip, but on rare occasions, the possibility that Pooky is more than just a stuffed bear is brought up, though never confirmed or denied for certain.


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Nermal

NermalCute gray kitten who flaunts his cuteness (the self-proclaimed cutest kitten in the world), which annoys Garfield immensely, he also has a very sarcastic attitude, usually resulting in Garfield trying to ship Nermal to Abu Dhabi. Often comes in unannounced, much to Garfield's chagrin, particularly by waking him up by shouting hello so loud that he jumps out of his bed. When he first appeared, he was owned by Jon's parents, but that was never mentioned again. When we see him, it is usually because Jon has to babysit him. He is not seen on Jon's parents' farm. Because of his eyelashes and seemingly effeminate personality, fans have often mistaken him as a girl; viewers of the television series will know that Nermal's voice sounded like a woman (he was in fact voiced by Desiree Goyette). He first appeared on September 3, 1979. However, in Garfield (film), Nermal appears as an adult Siamese rather than as a cute kitten.

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Mom

MomJon's mother who's always cooking up a meal, and sending Garfield the most uncomfortable sweaters.


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Dad

DadJon's father who tends the family farm. In his sole animated appearance, A Garfield Christmas Special, he was voiced by Pat Harrington Jr.


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Doc Boy

Doc BoyJon's only brother who tends to the pigs on the farm, and who is as much a loser as Jon (maybe even more so, having never moved out on his own as Jon did, and living an isolated life with their parents on the farm). Resents being called Doc Boy. He is apparently younger than Jon despite his receding hairline (inherited from their father, a "genetic bullet" that Jon somehow managed to "dodge"). In A Garfield Christmas Special, he was voiced by David Lander.


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Grandma

GrandmaShe is a Harley-riding, leather-wearing old lady who carves turkey with a chainsaw. She loves Jon, Garfield, and Odie, and occasionally makes appearances throughout the series. The most is revealed about her in Garfield's Christmas special, where it is revealed that her husband has died and she talks about her life with him. She is undoubtedly Garfield's favorite of Jon's family. In the strip, Grandma was originally depicted as a stereotypical elderly woman, wearing a shapeless, plain dark dress and her hair in a tight bun; her animated appearances outfit her as a more modern-looking woman. In A Garfield Christmas Special and A Garfield Thanksgiving, she was voiced by Pat Carrol.

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Lyman
Friend of Jon's who lived with him for a while and was the original owner of Odie. He first appeared on August 7, 1978. However, he disappeared from the comic on April 24, 1983 and his disappearance was never fully elaborated upon. 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 Dad 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. Hence he was removed without explanation. The closest thing Davis has ever given to explain his absence is "Don't look in Jon's basement". In the Web game "Scary Scavenger Hunt" he's shown chained onto the wall in the basement of a haunted mansion as well as screaming in a bathtub upstairs (in a scene clearly referencing the "shower scene" in the film Psycho; even the screeching violins from the infamous scene are played here). In "Scary Scavenger Hunt 2", his head is found inside the kitchen oven. This "in the basement" joke was revealed by Mr. Davis to not be entirely true. In an interview he mentioned that the real reason that Lyman disappeared was that he joined the Peace Corps and was never heard from again.

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Irma
Waitress and owner of "Irma's Diner", a diner occasionally patronized by Jon and Garfield. The food, service, and mental stability of both Irma and her restaurant are all questionable. For instance, her idea of a "chicken surprise" is her coming up to the table wearing a rubber chicken mask and saying "SURPRISE!" She also referred to "your choice of potatoes" as "cooked" and "raw." However, this may be attributed to her operating the diner 24 hours a day with no help (though in other comics, she is shown to speak to other diner employees). Although her main and most memorable appearances took place earlier in the strip, in 1999 she appeared (updated to match the most recent style of the strip), once again doing wacky things at the diner.

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Dr. Liz Wilson

Dr. Liz WilsonGarfield's veterinarian and long-time crush of Jon Arbuckle. She occasionally dates him, but these outings always become disasters (often thanks to Garfield tagging along for the ride), and Liz herself has little regard for Jon. She first appeared on June 26, 1979. In the live-action films, she became Jon Arbuckle's "girlfriend/partner". In animation, she was voiced by Julie Payne.


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Herman Post

Herman PostJon Arbuckle's mailman. Garfield constantly torments him, and he perpetually tries to find a way to deliver the mail safely, but almost never succeeding (although the mail always does make it). In Garfield and Friends, the mailman was voiced by Gregg Berger.


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Secondary characters
Hubert and Reba are Jon's stereotypical "grumpy old neighbors".
Mrs. Feeny is another neighbor, who has never appeared in the strip. Garfield routinely torments her, her little dog, and Mr. Feeny (who have never appeared as well) and as such Mrs. Feeny is always complaining to Jon about Garfield over the phone, or occasionally, vent her revenge on Jon.
Ellen is a local girl whom Jon often tries to go out with. She has never appeared in the strip, but many strips focus on Jon phoning Ellen asking for a date. She usually asks him to do something very stupid first, before refusing.

Garfield's motherSonja: Garfield's mother, Garfield's most influential family member. His mother is a stray, and he hardly sees her. But when they do meet, such as in the television special Garfield on the Town and a loose adaptation that ran in the strip in December 1984, she showers him with the love that she can rarely give. She also appeared in the television special Garfield: His 9 Lives. Sandy Huge provided her voice in the specials.
Garfield's grandfathers have both appeared. His mother's father is a strict, demanding stray, who insists (with extreme futility, of course) that Garfield must become a mouser. His father's father is a cynical, bitter and sarcastic character with a habit of telling long (and often completely made up) stories. He holds his grandson in mild contempt and threatens Jon with physical harm when he claims to see a family resemblence.

Floyd the Mouse from Garfield and Friends.Jon's house is also inhabited by mice (usually unnamed, though one of their first appearances shows one of them giving Garfield a business card for "Herman Vermin"), enjoying a quite full social life—to much annoyance of Jon. Garfield, however, cannot be bothered to chase them, and according to him they tend to either bribe or blackmail him to stay so. One particular mouse in the comic strip started appearing in 1984, and was named Squeak by Garfield, but he looked no different from the other mice. (The way you know Garfield is talking to Squeak in particular is when there are no other mice around to confuse him with.) Squeak made a cameo appearance in 1997, a few days before Garfield's 19th birthday. In the cartoon show, there was a significant mouse with a similar role named Floyd, who could be told apart by the fact that he was drawn with oval eyes like the other regulars and was voiced by Gregg Berger. A running gag with Floyd was his annoyance with the fact that he didn't appear often.
Garfield's otherwise boring life is occasionally enriched by spiders, who sometimes walk around the house or dangle from the ceiling—and whom he squishes with rolled-up newspapers. This, of course, leads to several attempts by the spiders to get back at Garfield—unsuccessful in most cases. Garfield does occasionally obtain help from the spiders, such as to get rid of an annoying fly. A spider by the name of Guido has been introduced.
When dieting, Garfield often has hallucinations. One common hallucination features walking food which encourages Garfield to eat it.
Three trusty household appliances in the comic are the talking bathroom scale, the alarm clock and the TV. The three objects have quite different personalities: The scale, sometimes known as RX-2, usually allows itself to be quite cynical and crude about Garfield's overweight state. But sometimes when it does so, it gets smashed or thrown into a trash can. A cover on one of the Garfield paperbacks show Garfield putting a foot on the scale and it heaving with agony. The clock usually retracts from ringing loud and waking Garfield, since he tends to smash it into pieces and was once flushed down a toilet because it woke Garfield. The TV also speaks to Garfield by itself on occasion, usually trying to persuade Garfield into continuing to watch it or turning it off. Once, when Garfield fell asleep in front of the TV, the TV yelled at him to turn it off. On an episode of Garfield TV show there was a The Twilight Zone-like episode with Garfield trapped in the TV set.
Clive is Garfield's invisible friend. He is another way through which Garfield plays pranks on and irritates Jon and Odie.

Binky the ClownBinky the Clown is a television personality noted for his extremely loud and piercing greetings, most notably "HEEEEEEEY, KIDS!" First seen in Garfield's Halloween Adventure, the character made his appearance in the strip's longest-running continuing storyline. On Garfield and Friends, Binky became more of a regular, and would modify his greeting to suit who it was he was greeting, such as "HEEEEEEEY, CAT!" He also had his own segment on the show during the second and third seasons, called Screaming With Binky, in which he showed up in the midst of a certain activity and then perform his trademark greeting, ruining said activity. Most of these segments were cut in syndication, but have been restored for the DVD releases. Like Jon, Binky was voiced by Thom Huge.
Stretch is Garfield's rubber chicken, who was given to Garfield on his 6th birthday. It only appeared for a week after, yet makes cameo appearances from time to time, mainly used as a weapon against Jon. Stretch was last seen on April 30, 1985 in his closet.
Garfield loves to eat sparrows, and has many attempts to catch them (most of the time failing), most notably his "barbeque bird bath" and his various bird disguises.
A tree is always trying to encourage Garfield to climb him, always ending in Garfield falling for its "same old lies". In the beginning, he sits on a tree branch, but more recently finds himself gripping the branch by his front paws and dangling. Once while stuck up a tree, he meets a cat named Ed who was raised by squirrels and had never walked on the ground before.
A recurring plot in the strip is Garfield eating Jon's various pet fish, which causes Jon to get mad. In an attempt to prevent Garfield from eating his second pet fish one week, he lets Garfield name it. Ironically, Second Helping (the fish Garfield named) lasted to the end of the strip, an event very rare in a Garfield comic. Another time, he named a fish Sushi.
A little chick that looks up to Garfield and calls him "Daddy" (it was originally "Mommy" until Garfield explained to the little guy what gender was). He is a nuisance to Garfield who, oddly enough, is reluctant to eat the little guy (for some strange reason, the thought just never crossed his mind). The chick doesn't like lasagna.
A big, vicious dog often enjoys barking at Garfield. His rear end is rarely seen. He is almost always seen next to a "Beware of Dog" sign, hence the name he's been given by several fans (another one is Chain Dog). Garfield isn't of this dog, and makes fun of him and even chats with him. Once in a while, he'll be afraid of him.
The Caped Avenger is Garfield's alter ego, a superhero who fights with only a cape. (His blanket.) He once had a sidekick named Slurp, (Odie) and also once lost his blanket and became the "Paisly Avenger." Some early strips show his superhero name as "Freedom Fighter".
Mondays are another nemesis of Garfield's. Often, they are shown off-panel but causing things to happen in-panel (such as throwing a pie at Garfield). When they are shown, they are drawn as ugly monsters. The most prominent theme was "The Monday That Wouldn't Die", in which every day in the month after a certain Monday was also Monday.
The Spluts are slapstick-comedy flying pies which strike Garfield upon random occasions, making the sound "splut!" when they hit. Typically the Spluts are used for shock humor or as a running gag ('Garfield: (checks the calendar) "Yep... it's 'Splut week.'")
The people who throw heavy objects at Garfield when he sings on the fence.
There's occasionally a dog who usually pops up at the final panel of a strip and harming Garfield in the process, always exclaiming, "____ DOOOGGGG!" with the blank word being his way of entrance. He is dressed in a pilot's cap, a cape, and a shirt that reads the initials of his name, which varies between his appearances. Examples include, "Trapdoor Dog", "Slingshot Dog", and "Bungee Dog".
Santa Claus is portrayed as a real, rather than fictional, character in the Garfield strip. This is a rarity as most newspaper comics do not show Santa as someone who actually exists. Belief in Santa is unquestioned, both Garfield and Jon believe in him and Garfield has witnessed him flying in his sleigh, coming down the chimney, and distributing presents. Somehow despite all of the trouble that Garfield gets into he remains on Santa's nice list. On Garfield's first Christmas Eve (December 24, 1978), he received 20 pounds of lasagna, a request which Santa notes nobody else in the world asked for.
Herman was Jon's pet frog, but was later inevitably eaten by Garfield.
The contents of Jon's fridge, due to his negligent bachelor lifestyle, have been left alone for so long that many of them have evolved into sinister intelligent lifeforms. The most sinister of all was the Mystery Meat, which attempted to embark on a plan for world domination.