Petless Jon Arbuckle Gets Book Deal

What happens when you remove the lasagna-loving, Monday-hating feline from Jim Davis‘s Garfield comic strips? Pet-owning bachelor Jon Arbuckle is revealed to be a depressed, lonely pessimist who racks up an impressive number of mental disorders, at least according to our DSM-IV. Subtracting Garfield, Odie, and friends from the Garfield strips was the idea of Dublin, Ireland-based Dan Walsh, who created the popular Garfield Minus Garfield website, “a journey deep into the mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against loneliness in a quiet American suburb.”