Just like Calvin and Hobbes it was funny when I was a little kid because of the drawings and what I thought the jokes were, and they're even funnier now that I actually get the jokes (well.... as much as you can get some of his bizarre humour)
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Any Gary Larson/ The far side fans?
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true. 1995 was a sad year. (though Outland was already a down-step from Bloom County)
edit: and finally, after The Complete Far Side, and The Complete Calvin and Hobbes, The Bloom County Library is apparently in production, to finalize the ultimate comics collection.
agreed.
i think he may have been inspired by, but has not stolen from kilban, who imho sucks.
just as berke breathed was clearly inspired by "doonesbury" creator, gary trudeau...Genius
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I love Gary Larson - some favourites include Cow Poetry, The Real Reason Dinosaurs Died Out, and the two gentlemen out fishing in a boat and observing the mushroom clouds when nuclear devices had been detonated and remarking "Tell you what this means Hal, no quotas and screw the size limit." Terrific, witty, original and inventive stuff. I had his calendars and some of his books and loved his Christmas cards.
Cheers and good luck
Cheers and good luck
Lol this reminds me of the guy I was debating against in the forum earlier that thought he was so superior to everyone.
The Far Side is the best
I miss the Far Side so much. Thanks for the suggesting of Kliban, too. Some of his stuff looks pretty funny, as well.
Some of my favorites:
Birds of prey know they're cool
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
I8NY
Adios Amoeba
...And about a thousand others!!!
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Some of my favorites:
Birds of prey know they're cool
Objects in mirror are closer than they appear
I8NY
Adios Amoeba
...And about a thousand others!!!
Note- It seems like dead thread resurrection day 'round here
My favorite one was a cat looking out a window to the street where two delivery trucks had a colision, one truck was full of "small flightless birds" and the other was full of rodents as I recall. The fat lady looking for the dog she sat on is a classic too.
That's because of there's nothing new that's any good, what with WWDC a few days away...
Note- It seems like dead thread resurrection day 'round here
That's because of there's nothing new that's any good, what with WWDC a few days away...
I will agree that Larson probably took some of his drawing style and situational humor from Kliban, especially since many of their characters are so similar. However, I just did a run through of 50 of Kliban's cartoons and not a single one could hold a candle to Larson's. In fact... Kliban wasn't funny.
My favorite far side comic:
"Darrell suspected someone had once again slipped him a trick spoon with the concave side reversed."
Agreed. Only Gary Larson could come up with "Cow Tools."
My personal favorite: "Anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you."
What makes it great is the guy's expression -- that without turning around, he knows the duck is in the building across the street, watching him through the window.
Agreed. Only Gary Larson could come up with "Cow Tools."
My personal favorite: "Anatidaephobia: the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you."
What makes it great is the guy's expression -- that without turning around, he knows the duck is in the building across the street, watching him through the window.
LOL! That's Hitchcock!! Two geniuses for the price of one!
I fricken love the far side!!! That and Calvin and Hobbes were two of the best newspaper comics ever made IMO. My personal favorites are these:
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The Far Side is hilarious. I loved catching them in the paper or findings someone with the desk calendar. You couldn't help but look ahead as opposed to waiting for each day to go by.
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fricken love the far side!!! That and Calvin and Hobbes were two of the best newspaper comics ever made IMO. My personal favorites are these:
My other fave. Again, the dog's minimalist expression is priceless.
Plus, the double whammy of a) the dog can't spell "food" and b) the cat followed the signs anyway!
I always used to go straight to the cartoon humour section in search of Gary Larson cards when buying for friends' birthdays. Unfortunately though they're now very hard to get hold of as apparently, whilst selling steadily amongst his fans, they aren't that profitable to stock - their cerebral nature being lost on many people who are just looking for a gag about farting or going bald.
He was an inspiration to myself and a friend who, disillusioned by the amount of generic, dumbed-down dross that confronts us whenever we shop for cards, decided to produce our own range.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Grinbin-cards/142967646562?ref=mf
www.grinbin.com (coming soon with a link to some of our cards stocked by Moonpig)
We have, since, discovered the same problem companies only want to stock our most obvious ideas and generally wont touch anything remotely unconventional.
Still, we recently got signed by Moonpig (an online card provider) and are in talks with other publishers about getting our own range.
Pretty much everyone I know has at one time or another complained about the sorry state of humorous cards our cards are an attempt to provide an alternative to the quagmire of soulless guff that currently clogs up the shelves of greetings card stores all over the country
He was an inspiration to myself and a friend who, disillusioned by the amount of generic, dumbed-down dross that confronts us whenever we shop for cards, decided to produce our own range.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/pages/Grinbin-cards/142967646562?ref=mf
www.grinbin.com (coming soon with a link to some of our cards stocked by Moonpig)
We have, since, discovered the same problem companies only want to stock our most obvious ideas and generally wont touch anything remotely unconventional.
Still, we recently got signed by Moonpig (an online card provider) and are in talks with other publishers about getting our own range.
Pretty much everyone I know has at one time or another complained about the sorry state of humorous cards our cards are an attempt to provide an alternative to the quagmire of soulless guff that currently clogs up the shelves of greetings card stores all over the country
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- I love The Far Side.
- Qoxiivi, Grinbin is really great.
- I have started a comic-strip, http://the-colour-of-the-sun.blogspot.com , which is quite inspired by The Far Side but not too, too similar.
- I love The Far Side.
- Qoxiivi, Grinbin is really great.
- I have started a comic-strip, http://the-colour-of-the-sun.blogspot.com , which is quite inspired by The Far Side but not too, too similar.
I've never seen that one. . . I love Farside but I have to say I don't get that comic. . . whats the big grey thing? At first I was thinking glacier, but that doesn't make much sense. . .
I've never seen that one. . . I love Farside but I have to say I don't get that comic. . . whats the big grey thing? At first I was thinking glacier, but that doesn't make much sense. . .
It's a joke on the phrase: "If you can't bring Muhammad to the mountain, bring the mountain to Muhammad."
I've never seen that one. . . I love Farside but I have to say I don't get that comic. . . whats the big grey thing? At first I was thinking glacier, but that doesn't make much sense. . .
It's a mountain.
Oops...someone beat me to it.