Selections of classicThe Far Sidecomics, updated daily Monday, May 12, 2025 “Dang, if it doesn’t happen every time! … We just sit down to relax and someone’s knockin’ at the door.” That evening, with her blinds pulled, Mary had three helpings of corn, two baked potatoes, extra...
Declan is getting more comfortable with his new identity, too. Until he injures his wing and it makes him very ill. Far more so than he’d imagine. So Callie starts looking for a cure–they’re pointed to fairy healer. So they set off on a short trip to find one. Along the way t...
In his introduction to the final section ofThe Complete Far Side Volume Two, Larson noted "the one thing that haunt[ed]" him in retirement: the idea of unproducedFar Sidecomics. While revisiting his work as the collection was put together,Gary Larson also delved intohis old notebooks, pulli...
Scott McCloud:Making Comics— I just turned in my final assignment in that comics class I’ve been taking, and I figured I may as well finish the course reading. Better late than never. We weren’t obliged to readMaking Comicsin its entirety, but I did because why the hell not. Scott...
All I know was that I started rediscovering the charm of newspaper comic strips, especially classics like Garfield and even The Far Side. Good Ol' Charlie Brown Nana Oyl made the majority of her career appearances in the newspaper comic strips. However, she also had a cameo appearance in one...
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Pauline was given an indirect mention in the Nintendo Comics System story Cloud Burst, where Mario alluded to a past girlfriend who was comparable to Princess Toadstool as well as to some extent Luigi and Bowser. Super Mario-kun Lady in the 2nd volume of Super Mario-kun In the recap cha...
If there are no more hammers to use for free, the player will need 8 Diamonds to use another. The Super Mario Bros. Movie A Hammer used on the world map in Super Mario Bros. 3 briefly appears in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, where it is seen in a lit display box outside of ...
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...
(I managed to slip in issue #10 from that run at the last minute during production of the book, but #14 came out too late.) Perhaps I may write some overarching posts once I get to comics from 2014 and on, but until then, I stand by the book as far as a summary of Cap's ...