Garfield the Human

**Garfield the Human** is the original Garfield comic series, where all major characters have swapped species with each other.

The series mainly covers the early comics; when Liz the vet was not yet Jon's girlfriend.

Artwork was first published on October 31, 2012 at Deviantart.

## Characters

### Garfield Davis

Garfield as a human. In actuality a very old man, but looks like someone in his 30s.

He has a pet cat, named Jon, and shares his rent with his "friend", Odie. His job is stand-up comedy, but his jokes are rarely appreciated, raising the question where Garfield gets his money from.

He has a girlfriend named Arlene and is often visited by a little boy, named Nermal, who seems to only show up to insult his waste and take Jon's attention away from him.

Garfield is a chubby man with orange hair, freckles, wearing an orange shirt, orange striped hoody, black pants, and red sneakers.

### Jon

Jon Arbuckle as a cat.

He's a simple animal in many ways, proven by his inability to recognize his own reflection in the mirror, but at the same time has many of the original Jon's traits. He now and then wears ugly props, forces Garfield to go on a diet, and visits a "medically trained" cat to talk to about the two humans he shares a home with.

Jon has brown curly fur.

### Odie Lyman

Odie as a human. He's in his 20s.

He is Garfield's mostly silent roommate and unappreciated best friend. Garfield shares his home as to make the rent less of a burden, but Odie rarely pays up. Garfield has no patience for his antics or even his presence, while Odie is infatuated with him and often tries to land a kiss on his face for minor reasons. This behaviour is seen as intrusive, yet is also something Garfield has gotten used to.

Because Odie doesn't show serious romantic interest in him and has only had girlfriends, it's implied he was raised to show his appreciation for someone in this manner.

He has a job as a car dealer, but since he rarely speaks, it's unknown how successful he is as a smooth-talking salesman.

Odie is a slender man with brown hair, a beauty mark on both sides of his neck, wearing a yellow shirt, blue pants, and brown shoes.

### Nermal Arbuckle

Nermal as a human. He's 8 years old.

He lives on a farm and now and then stays with family in Garfield's neighbourhood. He's a bold narcissist and often barges into Garfield's home to announce his cuteness and throw insults at him. He doesn't seem to mind the violence he's met with and keeps coming back.

Nermal doesn't have friends his age, though always gets positive attention from adults. To him, it's all the confirmation he needs.

He has brownish blond hair, wears a grey striped shirt, dark-grey pants, and sneakers.

### Liz

Liz Wilson as a cat.

She's a human specialist and often visited by other animals who want to understand their owner better. She appears to know her stuff.

Jon has a crush on her and visits her over the smallest matters.

She has black fur and wears red lipstick.

### Arlene

Arlene as a human. She's in her early 30s.

She is Garfield's presumed girlfriend, leaving everyone baffled to why she even has her eyes on him. He hardly responds to her advances and tends to choose a good meal and a nap over her.

Arlene is homeless, though no one can tell.

She's tall, has short pink hair, wears a pink sweater, blue pants, and red sneakers. They're the same as Garfield's and were given to her after he ordered the wrong size.

## Trivia

* Garfield's last name refers to the original creator of Garfield; and his grandfather.
* Garfield's choice of shoe is somewhat based on the ones the character has been depicted with on school products.
* Odie's last name is the name of dog Odie's first owner, Lyman.
* Odie's job refers to the origin of his name, to which Jim Davis said it was a character in a car dealership commericial he once made.
* Nermal's last name is "Arbuckle", as the original character was first introduced to have been owned by Jon Arbuckle's parents.
* The first published drawing starring these characters happened to get included in an online top list of best humanizations.