Visit the official online home of The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson for your daily dose of Gary’s classic cartoons.
additionalFar Sidecartoons Larson created after his retirement: 13 that appeared in the lastFar Sidebook,Last Chapter and Worse, and six cartoons that periodically ran as a special feature in theNew York TimesScience Times section asThe Far Side of Science. Creator Gary Larson offers a rare ...
Reflecting on his career several years into retirement, Gary Larson admitted that he fleetingly felt haunted by the Far Side comics he never drew.
the popularity of cartoons like Gary Larson'sFar Side,Jim Davis'Garfield,Charles Schulz'Peanuts, and more in the 1980s and '90s led to a commodification boom, as their memorable imagery was adapted for a variety of licensed products. Different creators responded to this opportunity differently; ...
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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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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