I discovered that there’s a comic strip called Jon that was the precursor to Garfield, and thought it would be interesting to post. A lot of these correspond directly to later Garfield comics. This one is almost exactly the same as the first official Garfield strip:
Here’s some background on these strips:
Saw a reference to Odie originally being called Spot and read about there being a prequel comic to Garfield, which I thought was pretty interesting