a “Far Side” page-a-day calendar and going, “I don’t get it. I don’t get it. I don’t get it. I don’t get it.”) Some readers wrote letters to their local paper expressing horror at the strip’s brutality or obscurity, demanding that it be cancelled. Millions of others were rabid enthusiasts, buying books, calendars, greeting cards.
As the years went on, Larson drew thousands of “Far Side” cartoons. Some are duds. Some are groaners—illustrated puns, along the lines of the new taxidermist cartoon, such as an image of an eel cocktail party, captioned “Social morays.” Meanwhile, the culture flourished and changed, in part encouraged by the landscape that “The Far Side” helped create.
In 1994, in Larson’s farewell letter to newspapers, he cited “simple fatigue” and a desire to avoid easing into the “.” On the comics pages, mediocrity followed in his wake. The funny pages today feel startlingly similar to the ho-hum amusement I knew as a kid, but several strips use Larson-flavored weirdness as a kind of selling point , with tame results. “The Far Side” helped weirdness, once taboo, become a funny-pages genre—and, depressingly, a boring one.
My favorite loved their cards to funny 💗
ya'll trick me into clicking on this almost 3 year old article every dang time! worth it.
3 year old article.
Love the far side.
Love it!!
Less smart than Doonesbury, don’t you think?
Thomas_PE21 Thomas_Account2
Gary Larson should do a cartoon on the word 'débuted'.
AndrewFeinberg Next you're in Minneapolis, head over to Hell's Kitchen and ask to be seated in The Far Side bar. The best tribute anywhere.
asarahlarson Midvale School for the Gifted. Enough said.
asarahlarson
asarahlarson I sometimes think The Far Side kind of spawned a medium like Twitter. Or at least the two are suited together.
asarahlarson Memo to : I don't do paywalls. EVER.
asarahlarson What do they do in this new clown world we live in? Put up pictures of things that used to be considered normal?
asarahlarson Wrong. The smartest and most inventive daily comic of the late 20th centruy was 'Calvin & Hobbs' by light years.
asarahlarson A link to his site would help...
asarahlarson 100%
asarahlarson Arguably?
asarahlarson Omg 2022 and I see the Far Side referenced by The New Yorker. Yesss
asarahlarson Gary Larson ❤
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