On Oct. 23, 1989, the week before Halloween, readers opened their newspapers to find a distinctly different sort of Garfield.

Garfield, the lasagna-loving cat from Jim Davis' popular Garfield comic strip, is known for his sarcastic sense of humor. Garfield can often be found playing a trick on his canine counterpart, Odie, ...

Meanwhile, The Far Side was doing jokes about hangings and murder — death was a regular punchline. Along with that, Larson ...