http://www.garfield.com/comics/vault.html?yr=1989&addr=891023

Apparently, there's much more to Garfield than pasta and sleeping. Read that strip through.

Also, if you don't remember Lyman because you didn't have the pleasure of having a huge Garfield library as a kid, be glad. I recently discovered the official reason for his sudden dissapearance (he was a main character and Odie's owner) is that he died on a peace corps mission, which is arguably worse than Jim Davis' comments to the effect of "Don't look in John's basement."

Related note:

This is pretty funny. It seems kinda dumb at first, but try to get through three pages without laughing.

http://garfieldminusgarfield.net/page/128