Garfield Minus Garfield

Apparently, when you remove Garfield's image and words from his own comics, you are left with a much better, darker comic about Jon Arbuckle that reveals a man losing his grip on sanity. He's manic depressive, somewhat paranoid, and generally slipping into full-on schizophrenia. This leaves the question - was Garfield always an imaginary friend, a la Calvin and Hobbes or Donnie Darko? Click on the title for more.