Classic cartoons were a huge influence on Gary Larson's long-running absurdist newspaper strip The Far Side. Here are the ten best references.
Gary Larson’s iconic comic strip, The Far Side, always kept its heart close to the path set by its cartoon forebearers, even if it quite frequently turned around and mocked those that tread the same trail previously. Frequently paying an idiosyncratic kind of half-heartening, half-horrifying homage to classic cartoons from Disney, Warner Bros. and its fellow periodical strips, The Far Side helped keep the medium's legacy in reader's minds.
10 "Aftermath Of A Popeye Brawl" In a classic infusion of realism-induced humor, a witness of a barroom fracas describes what can only be interpreted as a typical scene from the hit cartoon/comic strip Popeye. Often the end result of Popeye’s adventures, the panel portrays in unflinching detail the cost of the sailorman’s untempered rage, as his cowering, terrified victims lay strewn around the establishment in various states of brutalization.
8 "The Fate Of Jiminy Cricket" A wistful, if obviously completely mad, entomologist sings a familiar song to himself, as the body of a “field cricket” closely resembling Disney character Jiminy Cricket, floats submerged in a jar. The “fridge humor” of this particular panel is what holds it together. The scientist is singing a song to himself seemingly to him by his victim.
5 "The Far Side Spy Center" In a brilliant twist of meta-humor, Larson reveals that his cartoon creations actually serve a darker purpose: spying upon their competitors. In the background, a bevy of well-known characters – from rival strips such as Peanuts, Bloom County, Doonesbury and Cathy – appear on television monitors, going about their daily lives, ignorant of their unwitting placement under the watch of the stoic men, women, cows and chickens of The Far Side.
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