Jon Arbuckle

Jonathan Q. "Jon" Arbuckle is a fictional 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.

Played by

• Thom Huge (1980-2001; The Fantastic Funnies, Garfield and friends)
• Sandy Kenyon (1982; Here comes Garfield)
• Jon Barnard (2004; Garfield the video game)
• Breckin Meyer (live action/CGI 2004-06)
• Wally Wingert (2007-Present)
• Nicholas Hoult (2024; The Garfield Movie)

Other media

• Jon's first animated appearance was in the 1980 CBS special, The Fantastic Funnies, when he was voiced by Thom Huge. Jon was voiced by Sandy Kenyon in the first animated television special (Here Comes Garfield), before Huge returned to the character in all later specials and in Garfield and Friends. Breckin Meyer portrayed Jon in the live-action/animated films Garfield: The Movie and Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties,. In Garfield Gets Real, Garfield's Fun Fest and Garfield's Pet Force, he was voiced by Wally Wingert. Wally also provides Jon's voice for The Garfield Show. Nicholas Hoult voiced Jon in The Garfield Movie.

  

• Similarly, Garfield Minus Garfield removes all the other characters completely and simply features Jon talking to himself. Fans connected with Jon's "loneliness and desperation" and found his "crazy antics" humorous; Jim Davis himself called Dan Walsh's (the author of Garfield Minus Garfield) strips an "inspired thing to do" and said that "some of the strips work better than the originals".

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