Jon Arbuckle

Jonathan Q. "Jon" Arbuckle is a character from the Garfield comic strip by Jim Davis. He also appears in the animated television series Garfield and Friends and The Garfield Show, two live-action/animated feature films, and four fully animated films.

Jon is the owner of Garfield, whom he is frequently yet unknowingly mocked by, and Odie. A cartoonist by trade, he is largely presented as a comical, bumbling geek who is socially oblivious, especially when it comes to women.

The character of Jon Arbuckle was envisioned by Jim Davis as an author surrogate and was the primary character of the comic strip Jon, created by Davis in 1976 and syndicated locally in the Indiana newspaper The Pendleton Times. Jon featured Jon Arbuckle alongside his pet cat, Garfield, roommate Lyman and Lyman's dog "Spot", who would eventually evolve into Odie. Davis eventually decided to refocus the strip on Garfield, with the renamed Garfield strip achieving national syndication in 1978. The Jon comics were published without copyright notices, making them and the prototypical Jon and Garfield characters public domain under pre-1977 copyright law.

The character's name was taken from businessman John Arbuckle, who Davis had heard mentioned in a commercial for Yuban Instant Coffee.