From 1980 until 1995, cartoonist Gary Larson wrote and drew The Far Side. It was a single panel comic strip filled with non-sequitur, surreal jokes mostly aimed at adults instead of children, which was unusual for newspaper comics at the time. Also unusual was the fact that, unlike most daily comic strips, The Far Side had no recurring characters. Peanuts has its gang of kids and Garfield has its cast of humans and animals, but every panel of The Far Side introduces new characters and scenarios all aimed at delivering one single joke.