On August 6, 2019, before its merger with CBS Corporation to become ViacomCBS (now Paramount Global), New York City–based Viacom announced that it would acquire Paws, Inc., including most rights to the Garfield franchise (the comics, merchandise and animated cartoons). The strip's focus is mostly on the interactions among Garfield, Jon, and Odie, but other recurring characters appear as well. Garfield is also shown to manipulate people to get whatever he wants.

Common themes in the strip include Garfield's laziness, obsessive eating, love of coffee and lasagna, disdain of Mondays, and diets. Though its setting is rarely mentioned in print, Garfield takes place in Jim Davis's hometown of Muncie, Indiana, according to the television special Happy Birthday, Garfield. As of 2013, it was syndicated in roughly 2,580 newspapers and journals and held the Guinness World Record for being the world's most widely syndicated comic strip. Originally published locally as Jon in 1976, then in nationwide syndication from 1978 as Garfield, it chronicles the life of the title character Garfield the cat, his human owner Jon Arbuckle, and Odie the dog. Garfield is an American comic strip created by Jim Davis. Jon (1976–1977) and Garfield (1977–1978), locally published strips in the Pendleton Times-Post Random House (under Ballantine Books), occasionally Andrews McMeel Publishing Universal Press Syndicate/ Universal Uclick/ Andrews McMeel Syndication (1994–present)

Clockwise from bottom left: Nermal, Odie, Arlene, and Pooky

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