Visit the official online home of The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson for your daily dose of Gary’s classic cartoons.
Reflecting on his career several years into retirement, Gary Larson admitted that he fleetingly felt haunted by the Far Side comics he never drew.
BOB EDWARDS
Has an Owl Louse named after him: Strigiphilus garylarsoni. One of his most famous "Far Side" comics portrayed a video store in Hell that only stocked copies ofIshtar (1987). Larson later admitted he had not actually seen the film when he drew the comic, and later caught it on an ...
Someone's been reading my diary!" --Gary Larson, from the preface toThe Complete Far Side Revered by its fans as the funniest, most original, most "What the ... ?"-inspiring cartoon ever,The Far Sidedebuted in January 1980 and enjoyed an illustrious 14 years on the world's comics pag...
Larson was sick of the pressure of drawing on a deadline and so he walked away from his wildly popular strip and never looked back. Then, this week, for the first time in 25 years, he’s unveiled new cartoons. They’re notThe Far Side— but they are unmistakably the product of the...
Thoughconsumers missed out onFar Sidedolls, thanks to Larson's creative integrity, his original comics – and the multitude of merch that has been produced as a result – remain enduringly popular. This is seemingly despite Gary Larson's refusal to commodify his work to the extent that he ...
Larson was sick of the pressure of drawing on a deadline and so he walked away from his wildly popular strip and never looked back. Then, this week, for the first time in 25 years, he’s unveiled new cartoons. They’re notThe Far Side— but they are unmistakably the product of the...
Gary Larson's Far Side\ Nonsense? Nonsensel·JOHN C. PAOLILLOAbstractThe Far Side cartoons ofGary Larson have been claimed t o exemplify thenonsense (NON) humor type of the 3WD humor taxonomy (Köhler andRuch 1994), where NON is characterized äs having a structure in whichthere is no ...
Apart from the occasional gag involving famous anthropologists, Gary Larson’s The Far Side wasn’t exactly known for being the edgiest daily newspaper comic. But that doesn’t mean that Larson didn’t face content restrictions during the early days of the strip, one of which was pretty laugh...