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late 70's and 80's garfield designs were straight kino.
Everything after that became overly cartoonish and less cat-like.
David started giving him that weird long-legged humanlike body in panels like pic related.
Sure, older garfield sometimes walked on two feet or extended his arms but Jim kept his limbs drawn reasonably as his natural cat-limbs and didn't extend them to the point of absurdity, he kept Garfield as a cat even when he was doing things more suited for a human.