[HN Gopher] New Work by Gary Larson
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New Work by Gary Larson
Author : jkestner
Score : 487 points
Date : 2025-10-17 21:34 UTC (1 days ago)
(HTM) web link (www.thefarside.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.thefarside.com)
| jmclnx wrote:
| Very nice, I have been checking it for a while and this is the
| first new one I have seen in a while.
|
| Nice cartoon for Jane Goodall!
| bhouston wrote:
| FYI, this "New Stuff" is circa 2020:
| https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/arts/far-side-gary-larson...
| JimDabell wrote:
| It might've started then, but the latest entry is a tribute to
| Jane Goodall that was posted three days ago:
|
| https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/363/club-gombe
| chrisweekly wrote:
| This one is my favorite: https://www.thefarside.com/new-
| stuff/387/house-on-hillside
| Physkal wrote:
| Sorry, I don't get it. whats with the terydactl substance
| stickfigure wrote:
| Pretty sure it's bird shit.
| iancmceachern wrote:
| This exact chain of interactions is what I come to HN
| for.
|
| When Meat Loaf died, I commented "His name was Robert
| Paulsen" (you know, because in death membersbof project
| mayhem do have names, his name was Robert Paulsen".
| Someone commented something to the effect of no it
| wasn't, meat loaf wasn't his real name it was Marvin
| Aday, and then someone else commented to their comment
| "It's literally a fucking line from the movie".
|
| I dont know why these layers of weirdness delight me so,
| but they do.
|
| Thanks for the pterodactyl shit commentary folks.
| bitwize wrote:
| Was gonna say, I thought Robert Paulsen was the guy who
| did Yakko's voice?
| bsimpson wrote:
| His name was also Robert Paulsen.
| MrDrMcCoy wrote:
| I posted the same thing on Reddit and got downvoted to
| hell.
| cwillu wrote:
| Reddit is turning more into hn everyday.
| BolexNOLA wrote:
| Better hope it's not the other way around!
| firesteelrain wrote:
| This is sort of the inverse "Don't say HN is becoming
| Reddit"
|
| Reddit has been declining for a long time and even more
| so the way the algorithm works with the Front Page.
| Politics and activism there is super amplified
| bsimpson wrote:
| AskReddit has turned into Progressive Anxiety News, with
| every headline followed by "What do you think?"
| layer8 wrote:
| Lol
| latchkey wrote:
| winged reptile shit
| jcynix wrote:
| Let's call it "early bird" shit ...
| card_zero wrote:
| Well _actually_ pterosaurs were way different from birds,
| and don 't even count as dinosaurs. Though they had a
| downy covering similar to feathers. But they're not bird
| ancestors.
| somat wrote:
| The caption is what really sells it for me. It is the
| classical farside experience.
|
| Looks at comic, (shrugs) it's weird but not funny in any
| way. Reads caption
|
| "Art assignment: Paint a house on a hillside overlooking
| a bay or valley. Stay loose; play with color. Try to
| capture a mood. Think of something to add."
|
| Literal spit take and laugh. Yep he still has the touch.
| jjkaczor wrote:
| Hmmm - my interpretation is that this is an example of a
| "prompt" for a generative AI "artist", and the result was
| something that "craps" over the original intention of the
| "house on a hillside"... (so, a bit of a commentary on
| generative art from someone who was professional
| cartoonist)
| hobs wrote:
| I think you are applying the wrong decade(s) of thought.
| This is a man who had to clean his pen to use it - it is
| very likely he is using artists "prompts" to practice his
| digital art (as he mentions its very new to him), which
| is something that was normal before the current era.
| chrisweekly wrote:
| Yes. The word choice is exquisite; "loose" got me, right
| as I was visually interpreting the scene. Larson is a
| genius.
| iamwil wrote:
| This is my favorite too.
|
| The caption reads like an AI prompt. The last
| instruction, "think of something to add" resulted in the
| AI adding a pterodactyl on the house, dropping bird poop
| on it. Probably not what the prompter meant, but
| technically correct.
| tristramb wrote:
| Same here. My first though was 'This is an AI prompt.'
| hcs wrote:
| For the benefit of me 30 minutes ago baffled by the
| responses to this down thread, this is perhaps a
| r/BirdsArentReal thing? e.g. https://old.reddit.com/r/Bir
| dsArentReal/comments/1n1yr3d/wha...
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Nah, its just absurd Larson humor.
| hcs wrote:
| Oh I get the Larson humor, I mean Physkal's comment and
| iancollmceachern's implication that a reference was
| missed by stickfigure
| quuxplusone wrote:
| Coincidentally just ran into this anecdote on how Goodall and
| Larson became friends:
| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624718
| BolexNOLA wrote:
| What a nice story. "Nice" really feels like the correct
| word here.
| dotancohen wrote:
| When Gary started using the digital pad for drawing, he
| specifically said that he wouldn't be drawing every day, or
| on any deadline at all. So these comics really are a labour
| of love. They are meant for Gary to experiment, not make
| money.
|
| At least, that's how he presented it himself.
| bbor wrote:
| Wow, thank you for posting (you have to click the green "Enter"
| button, it's not super obvious -- someone needs to have a sit-
| down with Gary about design conventions! It's also completely un-
| bookmark-able, as there's no URL leading to the latest comic
| every day).
|
| This one made me laugh out loud for the first time in a while:
| https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/387/house-on-hillside He's
| still got it!
|
| EDIT: Ahh, it's very, very small. I was excited by the "387" in
| the slug, but that seems to be meaningless (?). There's 8 total
| comics in no clear order, and the caption system is completely
| broken (it says they were all posted this past Wednesday) :(
| jkestner wrote:
| Hey, maybe he'll pick up web UX next.
| hennell wrote:
| I assume his idea was that you have to come through the enter
| page so you read the disclaimer. I don't think he really cares
| about design conventions or making it easy, it's a tiny outlet
| for him rather than a thing built for others
| sphars wrote:
| Been meaning to post this but if you're interested, I set up a
| RSS feed for the daily Far Side comic[0]. It's a simple scraper
| that runs daily on GitHub actions and creates an entry for the
| 2-5 comics and captions of the day. Source code is on GitHub.[1]
|
| I'll have to look into this new section of the website and see
| about adding that to the feed.
|
| [0]: https://sphars.github.io/rss-
| feeds/feeds/the_far_side/feed.x...
|
| [1]: https://github.com/sphars/rss-feeds
| busyant wrote:
| You should try to incorporate Dennis the Menace in your
| retrievals.
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/Harmontown/comments/dsfqh7/the_far_...
| jimniels wrote:
| My first thought on finding this: needs an rss feed! TY
| brookst wrote:
| Wow. Thanks for making me buy a color e-ink display.
| thebruce87m wrote:
| Which one did you buy?
| Vinnl wrote:
| Semi-related: a plug of my project that allows you to set up
| exactly that for any website using CSS selectors. https://feed-
| me-up-scotty.vincenttunru.com/
| sphars wrote:
| This looks great, I'll have to check it out. I remember with
| the Far Side website I had to use Selenium for the browser
| because of some JavaScript on the page vs using something
| like BeautifulSoup. Does yours handle that?
| vikboyechko wrote:
| That's awesome that he a digital tablet enables him to create
| more art. I met a comic book artist recently who was drawing
| nonstop even while signing autographs and talking to fans.
| gyomu wrote:
| People on here love to dump on the iPad for being a
| "consumption device", and to hate on the Apple Pencil by
| misquoting/misunderstanding Steve Jobs[0]...
|
| ...but if you spend any time around artists it's evident that
| the iPad/Pencil/Procreate trio is one of the most significant
| leaps in consumer tech for visual artists of the last decade.
|
| [0] he never said that any and all styluses are bad - he said
| that 1) cell phones that 2) you can only interact with by using
| a stylus (not an uncommon paradigm back in 2007) were bad
| vikboyechko wrote:
| Yep totally, Procreate on an iPad with a paper-like screen
| protector and a Pencil is an amazing creative juicer.
| fwipsy wrote:
| What puts it ahead of the Wacom/Surface drawing tablets which
| have been around for much longer? I'm not sure if I'd
| describe it as a leap if it's refining existing products.
| gyomu wrote:
| As always, Apple didn't wholesale invent a product
| category, but they made the first product that synthesized
| all the right tradeoffs in a sufficiently compelling
| package that enabled them to sell tens/hundreds of millions
| of units fairly quickly[0].
|
| - hardware quality wise, already the 1st gen Apple Pencil
| had the specs of the higher end tablets (12-bit pressure
| sensitivity, orientation, azimuth, all in a sleek package)
|
| - you can use your iPad for a bunch of other stuff too, and
| it's super portable - whereas for the high end tethered
| drawing tablets, they're pretty single purpose, and they
| take up a bunch of space on your desk. This all matters to
| broke artists living in dorm rooms/tiny apartments.
|
| - the Procreate team designed a tool that was really
| focused on the digital drawing experience and managed to
| make a high quality, affordable product out of it. The
| standard for digital drawing on those tethered tablets is
| mostly Photoshop, which a) is meant for tons of stuff
| beyond drawing, making it quite complex and b) has 4
| decades of interface cruft piled up at this point.
|
| Honestly yeah, there truly are pre/post iPad+Pencil eras in
| consumer tech for anyone doing work that involves hand
| illustration/sketching.
|
| [0] whereas their competitors struggle to sell low numbers
| of units at terrible margins
| fwipsy wrote:
| I'm not talking about the Cintiq. Around 2015 I was daily
| driving an HP elite book 2760p which couldn covert to a
| tablet and had Wacom EMR tech integrated into the
| display. It worked fine for drawing and I did a lot of
| it. Along with Fujitsu and Lenovo they'd been making them
| since the core 2 duo era at least. When the surface pro
| came out it was building on these, and then the Apple
| pencil competed with the surface pro. These products sold
| then and still sell today. At my current company, the
| default windows laptop is a Thinkpad yoga with a stylus.
| I'll take your word for it when you say that the Apple
| pencil was an improvement and sold better. But Apple
| didn't invent this. There were absolutely successful
| products that came before.
| ndr42 wrote:
| "There were absolutely successful products that came
| before"
|
| I think it's just a question of definition. The Apple
| pencil was introduced in 2016, since then about
| 500.000.000 iPads have been sold. If you compare that
| with the number of Thinkpad yogas or HP elite book 2760ps
| it's possible to come the conclusion that they are
| relatively less successful. But of course they can be
| "absolutely successful" depending on your definition.
| dgently7 wrote:
| Like everything apple it's not that they made something
| wildly new, they just found a way to do something more
| polished than anyone else that then is successful with a
| specific subset of vocal people.
|
| I'm not much of a digital artist and views in this space
| probably vary wildly.. but if I steel man the pro iPad case
| I think it's a few things 1. Screen quality. iPads look
| better than cintiq bc the display in the iPad is actually
| pretty awesome. Like recommended by the color nerds for
| being the best color you can get for the price, 2. Pen
| distance on iPad your pen is closer to the actual pixels.
| The cintiq had more space between the screen and the
| surface, feels like you draw above the page a little. 3.
| Biggest of all is portability. Artists love desks but they
| also love drawing everywhere all the time. iPad is just
| better at this because it's designed as a tablet totally.
| The pre-apple pencil Wacom stuff existed as tablets but
| from what I remember was mostly just windows laptops. So
| software wasn't built for touch and wanted keyboards and
| stuff. Responsive multitouch and the os(and drawing apps)
| built to integrate it tightly is a level of polish Wacom
| couldn't do as just a pen input system. 4. Cost cintiqs
| always cost a ton and a lot of them don't even have the
| computer part, iPads aren't cheap but are way more
| accessible.
|
| Maybe Wacom has caught up with newer offerings? it's been a
| while since I looked at their stuff. There are also totally
| reasons why you'd wanna go that route for some digital pen
| stuff (eg high end digital sculpture or texture painting
| type stuff that really needs the power and integration you
| can get from a desktop and desktop os)
| fouc wrote:
| It's crazy how much of a stranglehold the Procreate app seems
| to have in the iPad world for drawing.
| somat wrote:
| It is interesting to note the changes in style from his newspaper
| comic. I assume it is the result of drawing for yourself and
| being able to take the time to draw it how you want rather than a
| 7 comic a week deadline syndicated strip.
| bombcar wrote:
| I think he's also directly implementing color, if you see color
| "original Far Side" it was added post-hock usually (though
| maybe some color Sunday strips exist colored by Larson).
| normie3000 wrote:
| It might be explained by the long explanation on the linked
| page - these new cartoons are drawn on computer with a graphics
| tablet, whereas the old ones were pen and ink.
| mcv wrote:
| There are multiple reasons for a different style, but U think
| a big one is that a syndicated cartoon is expected to have a
| recognisable style. We recognise many cartoonists by their
| unique style, despite many of them being far more versatile
| artists than that.
| akoboldfrying wrote:
| No one is able to capture stupidity on a person's (or cow's, or
| chicken's) face quite like Gary Larson.
| Waterluvian wrote:
| I think it's about time for me to confess: I _really don't get_
| Gary Larson cartoons. I understand what each is about, but my
| amusement level doesn't correlate with their popularity.
|
| It's a slightly odd, somewhat lonely feeling to see something so
| universally beloved and popular and feel nothing.
| dfedbeef wrote:
| I don't think they are universally beloved or popular if that
| makes you any feel better.
| dfedbeef wrote:
| They're popular in the way that the Dinosaurs show on ABC was
| popular.
| mk_stjames wrote:
| 'Dinosaurs' was a masterpiece and I won't hear otherwise.
|
| The series finale is one of the greatest T.V. finales of
| all time.
| fknorangesite wrote:
| No, the Far Side was popular the way The Simpsons was
| popular.
|
| I think you're dramatically underestimating how big it was
| during its run.
| mk_stjames wrote:
| What, not a fan of 'Cow tools'? [0]
|
| [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_tools
| WalterBright wrote:
| I didn't get that one, either.
| sitharus wrote:
| Nobody did
| eszed wrote:
| I was maybe 8, and I thought it was hilarious. <shrug>
| busyant wrote:
| I'm curious if you understand this joke
| (https://i.imgur.com/II5W6Pl.png).
|
| I think it's similar to the Cow Tools panel.
|
| Specifically, the Far Side panel plays on the idea of the
| fact that cows would have a cow-centric view of the world
| and would likely develop tools that were alien to us. The
| other part of the 'joke' is that cows don't build tools
| (afaik). edit: I think the "3rd" part of the joke is that
| the tools look like shit, which is what you'd expect from
| even the most talented cows.
|
| The humor of the space alien joke is similar in that it's
| pointing out the difficulty that everyone has in
| understanding how others (other people, other species,
| etc.) view and describe the world.
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| > I'm curious if you understand this joke
| (https://i.imgur.com/II5W6Pl.png).
|
| I don't, because I'm from the UK...
| busyant wrote:
| > I don't, because I'm from the UK...
|
| excellent meta-joke.
| Nition wrote:
| In a way Cow Tools was too simple rather than too hard, so
| people thought there must be more to it.
|
| I don't think the joke itself is a bad idea. I remember The
| Simpsons doing the room full of monkeys on typewriters where
| one comes up with "it was the best of times, it was the
| blurst of times" which in a way is a similar joke, right?
| i.e. Not a good result, but funny because it's still much
| more than you'd ever expect in reality.
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Simpsons joke has a reference. It's not a Simpsons
| original.
|
| It is the infinite monkey theorem from the late 19th and
| early 20th century.
| oneeyedpigeon wrote:
| That's the context of the joke, but it's not the source
| of the humour.
| hamburglar wrote:
| The joke was a _reference_ to that pop culture idea which
| pointed out that if the infinite monkeys thing is real,
| there should also necessarily be products that are very
| close to great works but not quite right.
| The_President wrote:
| Or Rattlesnake Training?
|
| https://www.pinterest.com/pin/460000549435346228/
| voidfunc wrote:
| I get them sometimes but I feel like its like a lot of stuff,
| were hostage to the meta and everyone seems to "get" the meta
| so you have to go along with it or you're an outsider.
|
| Yay humans.
| bongodongobob wrote:
| I think about it as pushing the boundaries of the minimum
| amount of funny to be a joke. It's not anti humor, it's not
| absurdism, it's not ironic. It's trying to approach the
| absolute least amount of whatever a joke is. Some kind of
| minimum joke Komolgorov complexity.
| Ylpertnodi wrote:
| Some people just get the 'cartoon repair man' joke, others
| don't either.
| aorloff wrote:
| Often if you don't get it, its because you didn't get it.
|
| There is a famous one of 2 explorers in the jungle and the man
| is saying "Holy moly Loretta, not only is it still there, but
| look what it did to the end of my stick !"
|
| So not really funny unless you can recall (or imagine) a moment
| when you had a bug on you and you ask someone to brush it off
| and you have that minute of like, did you get it or is it still
| there ? If that has actually happened to you, its a hilarious
| cartoon.
| cwillu wrote:
| And sometimes not getting it is the joke, for which I need
| only mention "Cow Tools"
| firesteelrain wrote:
| Cow Tools was supposed to be "got" but it went over most
| people's heads. Gary admitted this
| PlunderBunny wrote:
| I think that all humor belongs more or less to a particular
| time (a decade if you will). Garfield for example is very much
| a product of the 1980s. When humour is viewed outside of its
| time, it's different. Did you read FarSide in the 1990s, or
| come to it later?
| chrisweekly wrote:
| IMHO Garfield is to comics / humor what Monopoly is to games
| / fun.
| rkomorn wrote:
| You or one of your siblings flipped the Garfield comics
| over after your father bled you dry with his savvy real
| estate plays?
| vunderba wrote:
| I don't think I've ever laughed at loud at something from Far
| Side, rather I've always thought of his comics as "smirk-
| worthy".
|
| School for the Gifted
|
| https://imgur.com/a/6wERHNk
|
| Dog Translator
|
| https://imgur.com/a/UwDJxXm
| larrry wrote:
| Have you ever laughed out loud at a cartoon? I don't think I
| have, and I would say I enjoy cartoons quite a bit. A grin is
| about the best reaction I can give to one myself
| technothrasher wrote:
| I'm not sure I've ever laughed out loud at a cartoon, but
| as a kid, the compilation books of Charles Addams cartoons
| used to fill me with so much warm pleasure I would read
| them over and over, and his cartoons still just plain make
| me happy to this day. I can clearly see that Larson does
| that same thing for many people.
| larrry wrote:
| I too am a Charles Addams fan! The best ink painter in
| cartoons (IMO), and definitely plenty of grin worthy
| gags.
|
| Peter Arno is also another good ink painting cartoonist,
| although his subject matter has generally aged much more
| poorly...
| baobun wrote:
| But what if there is no Garfield?
|
| https://garfieldminusgarfield.net
|
| https://garfieldminusgarfield.net/tagged/garfield%20minus%2
| 0...
| aidenn0 wrote:
| Those are painful for me rather than funny. Kind of like
| _The Office_.
| dhosek wrote:
| Yes. Calvin and Hobbes.
| philsnow wrote:
| Recently doing a re-read with my eight year olds and
| still laughing, though at a different layer of
| meaning/funny than when I was eight.
| IndySun wrote:
| Have you ever read Viz?
|
| Specifically on the London underground (or your local
| public transport) during morning rush hour, with a
| hangover. It's hard not to laugh out loud.
|
| https://viz.co.uk/about-viz/
| vunderba wrote:
| Never heard of it until now. Is it sort of a British
| equivalent to America's "MAD" magazine?
|
| Still worth reading if you're a scruffy yank?
| IndySun wrote:
| MAD is wacky. This is more England and it's casual gutter
| talk. All cultures have their own. Do you enjoy any
| British hum(o)ur?
|
| VIZ is crass, puerile in the extreme, casually (insert
| your red line here)-ist on many levels, and often
| repetitive. It uses common slang words, so somewhat
| culturally revealing. It's 'wrong' on many levels but
| done with style, albeit sometimes a repugnant style - So
| you inwardly 'gasp' in revulsion but outwardly stifle a
| giggle.
|
| The fake small ads are often very very funny.
|
| Lastly, like so many gags that use the 'shock' effect,
| the humour doesn't last forever; take a look at an early
| one on Archive...
| vunderba wrote:
| That's totally fair. I had to dig a bit - but I'm pretty
| sure I may have audibly chuckled when I came across these
| in the wild.
|
| https://imgur.com/a/UiCVymg
| Waterluvian wrote:
| A "101.5 The Hammer" of Moths absolutely kills me.
| fknorangesite wrote:
| > Have you ever laughed out loud at a cartoon?
|
| I laughed out loud multiple times clicking on links in this
| very thread, reading comics I've read dozens (and dozens)
| of times before.
| somat wrote:
| It is probably down to whether you find humor in absurdity as
| the far side leans rather hard into this.
|
| The humor "is" very weird, the normal flow is a strange image
| that is not funny and a simple caption that is also not funny.
| but coupled together there is something funny about the absurd
| connection that is made. sort of like a caption meme with
| better drawing. And honestly I think there are a lot of them
| that we just don't "get", too strange for comprehension, and we
| find this funny as well.
| baobun wrote:
| I can imagine Farside might be hard to "get" for someone
| meeting it in 2025 - absurdity to the extreme is everywhere
| now. You can think of it as Skibidi Toilet for a slower, more
| innocent time.
| ghtbircshotbe wrote:
| A lot of his comics aren't great, having to create 7 per week,
| a fact he referenced in his comics themselves. But just the way
| he represented people - pudgy, cat's eye glasses, doing some
| esoteric thing like collecting butterflies or building a robot
| in the basement, is amusing to me.
| linsomniac wrote:
| >time for me to confess
|
| Don't feel that way. I can totally understand why some people
| wouldn't "get" (or I'd put it "appreciate") The Far Side. It's
| a very particular kind of humor, and it's fine that it's "not
| everyone's cup of tea". I, for example, absolutely loathe
| poetry. It's like the cilantro of literature of me, and I don't
| have the gene that makes it not taste like soap. ... Who
| cares!?!
|
| I have this "joke" that I dearly love, that I've never met
| anyone who gets it. It is a bad joke, largely because nobody
| gets it. It doesn't imply something in me or something lacking
| in ... everyone else. Humor is just what you find in it. It is:
| "Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but it
| seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me..."
| rkomorn wrote:
| > "Well, I defended my thesis in comparative literature, but
| it seems like he's got a pretty healthy pulse to me..."
|
| Definitely sounds like the kind of joke I'd like if I
| understood it.
| omegaham wrote:
| A more obvious setup to the joke is
|
| "Is there a doctor on this plane???"
|
| "Well yes, but I defended my thesis in comparative
| literature..."
| rkomorn wrote:
| Ugh. Of course. That makes a lot of sense.
|
| Didn't come anywhere close to getting it on my own
| though!
| linsomniac wrote:
| Right, but what makes it work for me is that you have to
| bring the setup to the table. I think The Far Side is
| similar in a lot of its humor.
| wussboy wrote:
| I'm totally stealing that. Fantastic.
|
| And, if you want and if the Fates allow, you may have my
| favourite, completely unappreciated joke:
|
| "A time traveller!" [wait a few seconds] "Knock knock."
| Waterluvian wrote:
| My favourite own joke is when I'm sitting on a beach towel or
| grass or whatnot and I want to get up, I'll say,
|
| "I can't stand sitting, so I need a hand standing."
|
| Nobody ever finds that amusing but it kills me every time.
| linsomniac wrote:
| One of those situations where I say: "I'm hilarious... to
| myself."
| tim333 wrote:
| I guess as he puts it here
|
| >like the proverbial tiger and its stripes, I'm pretty much
| stuck with my sense of humor. Aren't we all?
| dfxm12 wrote:
| Life is less lonely when you focus more on social groups you do
| have something in common with than trying to latch onto
| everything that's popular.
|
| That said, you might not be as alone as you think. The far side
| has been the butt of many bits:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjfkynJ4hbI
| mech4bg wrote:
| Neither did Homer if it makes you feel better.
|
| https://youtu.be/LjfkynJ4hbI?si=rMrpX7VChQMX23_I
|
| (Obviously not the only one if not getting Far Side comics made
| the Simpsons!)
| WalterBright wrote:
| If you like Gary Larson, check out Gahan Wilson, who has a very
| similar sense of humor.
|
| https://www.kensandersbooks.com/pages/books/59859/gahan-wils...
| aaronrobinson wrote:
| The one with the pilots announcing turbulence ahead...
| Mistletoe wrote:
| This was such a better experience on mobile. I had first tried on
| my MacBook and it was inscrutable.
| BAPHOMETA88F wrote:
| I had a client once in the 90's when Olive Garden was the first
| wave of consumer Italian spots to serve specials.
|
| After we ordered our entrees the waiter left one of those
| coloring labyrinths. Well, I couldn't tell at the start of the
| sketch that it resembled a mandala.
|
| As a comic book artist, his studies in a parapsychology were in
| the practice of comic strips.
|
| Gary's work reminds me of that afternoon.
| thom wrote:
| The Far Side is like the Simpsons for me, many of the jokes have
| passed into everyday expressions. If I or my wife are on the loo
| when the other comes in, we'll always quote one of my favourites:
|
| https://static0.srcdn.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2023/...
| ck45 wrote:
| I've never seen it that way, but I think you are absolutely
| right. My favorite always has been
| https://www.reddit.com/r/TheFarSide/comments/179ikr2/its_a_f...
| GaryBluto wrote:
| We frequently say "Midvale School for the Gifted" whenever any
| of us try to push a pull door.
| myself248 wrote:
| Trouble Brewing...
| russfink wrote:
| Realizing the lions' taste for red meat, the Spamalopes
| remained calm, but wary.
| JimDabell wrote:
| > many of the jokes have passed into everyday expressions.
|
| Not to mention palaeontology!
|
| https://unapologeticnerd.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/thag...
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
| tonyarkles wrote:
| We've definitely had to get tutoring for a few dogs :D
| sph wrote:
| I should really start to read the Far Side comic... I've heard
| about it for the first time, along with Heathcliff and Pants, on
| the latest Solar Sands video _" The Surreal Worlds of Single
| Panel Comics"_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4npsyTE-m_k
| mikkupikku wrote:
| These are great, he's still "got it".
| giardini wrote:
| This is great!
|
| Periodically, I'll go through one of Larson's cartoon books,
| laughing all the way. It's like housecleaning for my brain -
| afterwards everything is spic-and-span and in it's proper place.
|
| The first Gary Larson cartoon I ever saw was "Freeze...OK
| now...who's the brains in this outfit?". When I saw it I had to
| see more:
|
| https://i.pinimg.com/736x/c4/c4/75/c4c475c0a2fdc310a34c20722...
| gcanyon wrote:
| You might appreciate this The Way of the Gun quote:
|
| Joe Sarno: So, you the brains of this outfit, or is he?
| Longbaugh: Tell ya the truth, I don't think this is a brains
| kind of operation.
| RyanOD wrote:
| Fantastic! I check this periodically, hoping for anything new
| from Mr. Larson.
|
| Love that he took the time to honor Ms. Goodall one more time.
| What a class act.
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