The Norm (comic strip)

[6] Norm is a graphic designer who is "twenty-something" and single, taking a casual approach to life.

Boy Norm particularly loves video games and lives on a diet of breakfast cereal.

She is a highly successful businesswoman; whose over-focused driven tendencies counterpoint Norm's relaxed attitude.

[11] In an extended story arc, Ford becomes engaged to his girlfriend Jan, and then while in the process of making their wedding plans they abruptly decide to move to another state.

Jan: Ford's girlfriend (later wife) is a therapist who does not like Norm, but is good friends with Reine.

Though Ford is fully committed to their relationship, he resorts to creative ways to evade her so he can hang out with Norm; such as offering to help with their wedding plans, which invariably gets him thrown out of the house.

Mom and Dad: Norm's parents, who are usually depicted as voices out of the cartoon frame.

In some strips they are drawn as childish stick-figure sketches, reflecting the fact that Norm still sees them through a child's eyes.

Norm likes to take Chuck for walks in the park as (according to his theory) it is a good way to meet single women.

He is constantly borrowing things from Norm (usually without asking) and often appears in his yard in his bathrobe.

The XGF's: The Ex-Girlfriends, a collective term for all the women who Norm has dated in the past and broken up with.

[15] They include Marta, Greta, Rita (the "Über-ex-GF") and also Maria Elena who Norm never dated but was once interested in.

Reine was also technically a member long before she and Norm began dating, since he had thought about it but never asked her since he did not want to lose her as a friend.