Poor Garfield. In his heyday, he was amongst the most beloved characters on the funny pages, his plush likenesses fastened to car windows and his sarcastic barbs adorning office walls around the globe ...

Before Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub, and, yes, Keyboard Cat, there was Garfield. Since first imagining how popular a cynical, sardonic, and pizza-loving feline character might be with comic strip audiences in ...