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‘The Far Side’ Is Back, Sort Of
- neonate 7y agohttp://archive.md/1l8Ww http://archive.md/1l8Ww
- cwkoss 7y agoI hope he makes a twitter account that tweets one comic a day.
- jacquesm 7y agoNever enough :) My favorite: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/75/31/d77531ddeaf83c8375c2f70a972189b3.jpg https://i.pinimg.com/originals/d7/75/31/d77531ddeaf83c8375c2...
- pjmorris 7y agoMy favorite is 'old dog new trick.' I won't post a link myself because I once spent a long email thread with Larson's secretary trying, and failing, to get permission to use the cartoon in a slide deck. He has described that he thinks of the cartoons as his children and that, like children, he wants to know where they are. I respect that, though I wish he felt differently.
- paulddraper 7y agoIf used for educational purposes, it would probably fall under fair use.
- pjmorris 7y agoPerhaps. It's about six years too late for that particular presentation, but there will always be more presentations.
- lilyball 7y agoBeing legally okay isn't the same thing as being right. For a similar reason, Weird Al Yankovic always gets permission before publishing his parodies even though he doesn't have to.
- 27182818284 7y agoFor what it is worth, Yankovick has done the opposite of your comment at least once. Yankovic specifically got legal permission for his song Amish Paradise but not what was arguably "right" meaning permission from the artist Coolio who said no. Yankovic did it anyway. Years later, they are reportedly "cool" now according to Yankovic: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h7afc/i_am_weird_al_yankovic_ask_me_anything/carj75a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/1h7afc/i_am_weird_al_...
- teach 7y agoThat's pretty misrepresentative of the events. Yankovic _thought_ he had gotten permission and when he later found out Coolio hadn't been consulted he was mortified.
- lilyball 7y agoNot only that, but this episode also only serves to prove Yankovic's point, that it's best to get permission even if you don't legally have to.
- 27182818284 7y agoThat's fair. I'll concede on that. You're right.
- 27182818284 7y agoFrom what I've read he knew he had permission from the record label, and knew he didn't have Coolio's blessing. I wasn't there, but it seems unlikely that if he immediately had turned around like "wow I didn't know" the so-called beef wouldn't have lasted years until they made nice. From: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/coolio-did-not-want-weird-al-spoof-gangsta-205954306.html https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bp/coolio-did-not-want-w... >Coolio said when Weird Al initially requested to remake the song, he said, "No," but later realized that, due to the fair use copyright laws, he could not stop the production. >Coolio later reconsidered Weird Al's proposal. "I sat down, and I really thought it out," he told the students at IPR. "I was like, 'Wait a minute.' I was like, 'Coolio, who the f—k do you think you are? He did Michael Jackson. Michael Jackson didn't get mad.'"
- nightfly 7y ago"Kids! Kids! ... The slugs are back!"
- mrandish 7y ago"Cat Fud" ----->
- chiph 7y agoMine is "Midvale School for the Gifted"
- ctack 7y agoOnly every single time I try to push a door I should be pulling open.
- cwp 7y agoHow is this not called "The Far Site"?
- JoblessWonder 7y agoIt is impossible to overstate how much laughter and joy 'The Far Side' brought me growing up. Between 'The Far Side' and 'Calvin and Hobbes' I was set.
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- generalpass 7y agohttps://www.thefarside.com/ https://www.thefarside.com/
- sprice 7y agoA Far Side comic led to the naming of a part of the Stegosaurus' tail. "Now this end is called the thagomizer... after the late Thag Simmons" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
- davidw 7y agoYeah I think that's somehow cooler than the species. There are a lot of obscure species that get named for someone, but being the guy who named something that every kid is familiar with... that's pretty cool! (And I came here to post about that too).
- dmix 7y agoThis one is a goodie https://shoeuntied.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/fs16.jpg https://shoeuntied.files.wordpress.com/2018/05/fs16.jpg
- heavyset_go 7y agoThere is at least one species named as an homage to Gary Larson, too.
- ergothus 7y agoYou know how people always say "back in my day, things were better!" (in between saying "you kids don't know how easy you have it")? For me, while there are plenty of differences between now and when I grew up, and these differences are sometimes good and sometimes bad, there are only two things I've been solid on. The Far Side, and Calvin and Hobbes. The bad part is that we aren't getting more. The good part is that we still have access to them.
- throwawayhhakdl 7y agoGooder news, he said he will on occasion, make some more.
- Elof 7y agoI have all my old copies of The Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes in my library waiting for my daughter. Some of my most fond early memories are of Calvin and Hobbes specifically and it resonates with me in a completely different way now than it did then, obviously. I have to imagine there are other great works being made now that I might be missing out on because of my age? One person that I think fits the bill, but isn't currently making comics is Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half is on the level. Anyone have something new you recommend I check out?
- fredophile 7y agoIt's not new but you could check out Pearls Before Swine. A few of the strips were drawn by Bill Watterson.
- selimthegrim 7y agoI think they swapped for a week and Stephan Pastis drew some Calvin and Hobbes
- fredophile 7y agoThe time I'm thinking of was well after Calvin and Hobbes ended. I'm pretty sure that the two comics have little or no time when they both coexisted.
- ggm 7y agoRotring pens were the best. I used a mechanical drawing 0.2 for a while as an every-day. At high school the 'devo' hat end-clip hid my tiny stash..
- sp332 7y agoI'm not sure if this is the "open letter" referred to, but it's what Larson sent to at least a couple of people with cease & desist orders. https://www.comicmix.com/2008/03/07/gary-larson-and-our-far-side-cease-and-desist/ https://www.comicmix.com/2008/03/07/gary-larson-and-our-far-...
- madrox 7y agoWhen my dad passed away, I inherited all his old The Far Side books. Seeing this article made me pull them out, and they've aged surprisingly well. That said, comics have changed a lot since those books were published, and part of me wonders if The Far Side would've succeeded today. Considering most active internet-dwellers these days have no memory of The Far Side, I guess we'll find out.
- aaron695 7y agohttps://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a-letter-from-gary-larson https://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a-letter-from-gary-larso... Good to see he still doesn't get it. The Far Side really is about nostalgia now so I kinda like that too. Very interested to see if he will adapt to the new evolved playing field of humour or will stick with nostalgia. Both have value. From the letter it seems like the later.
- eindiran 7y agoWhy was this link changed? Most of the time that the moderators switch in a link, they are functionally the same, but this is an interview rather than a direct link to the content of the email that was sent out, hosted on the site discussed in the email. Also, the New York Times is paywalled, which is fine by HN policy, but its one thing when the only source of a particular article is paywalled. Its another thing to change the link to the paywalled version... For reference, this used to point to: https://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a-letter-from-gary-larson https://www.thefarside.com/about/48/a-letter-from-gary-larso... It currently points to: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/arts/far-side-gary-larson.html https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/17/arts/far-side-gary-larson... EDIT: Looking through what happened, I think the two were merged together as a dupe, but the interview was chosen over the letter itself.
- noneeeed 7y agoAlso the official site appears to be struggling with all the interest, so perhaps the mods decided to go with the working NYT.
- Agathos 7y agoGot to tip your cap to him for selecting "Cow Tools" for the first day's front page.
- emmelaich 7y agoI love Larsen. Similar but darker and weirder was https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Kliban https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B._Kliban Nice essay - http://www.thepaincomics.com/Kliban.pdf http://www.thepaincomics.com/Kliban.pdf Just as funny to me. Do a web search for Kliban without "cat" for a taste.
- ElCapitanMarkla 7y agoSome of these are right up my alley. This one is a favourite so far https://i.imgur.com/xTrQtPo.png https://i.imgur.com/xTrQtPo.png
- jdofaz 7y agoanyone find a rss/atom feed on thefarside.com?
- dgenzale 7y agoOK, for even more awesome, check out the site's console output when you try to right click an image (better with fixed-width of course): . . ,:'` `':, ":._.-""-._.:" === __ === .| |. :` | | `: :` | | xx: : ` : o o : xxxx: .` '----' `xxxx`. : ` `` `: : ` :' ': `: : ` :x. `: `: .` .xxx`. `. : : xxx: : .` .xxx` `. `. : : ` : : : : : : : : : : : : .xxx: : vv .xxxxxxxvv : .xxxxxxxxx: o\-`o`: .xxxxxxxxx:` ` xxxxxxxxxx`
- Vogtinator 7y agoMainly to prevent opening the context menu - probably to make copying images harder...
- generalpass 7y ago> Mainly to prevent opening the context menu - probably to make copying images harder... I feel like Gary Larson is still new to the Internet. I mean, the prevalence of Twitter screenshots alone should demonstrate the futility of such efforts. Though it may be that he just doesn't want to tell with supporting the image link traffic. However, given that uMatrix reports blocking >5K, my suspicion is that he or whoever he has doing his site may not be all that clever. (I haven't any plans to dig into why uMatrix is reporting so much.)
- huebomont 7y agoThe idea that Gary Larson made any decision about context menus or tracking on this site is hilarious. He was definitely not involved in that way.
- dgenzale 7y agoOf course, it's just genius that they would go to this level of detail for something almost nobody will ever see.
- acqq 7y ago> I’ll forever be grateful to fans, who in those early days often rescued “The Far Side” from cancellation I'd like to read more about the "controversies" and the complaints against his cartoons then. It's probably instructive to see how easy people can be offended and an author becoming a target of forces that he couldn't perceive.
- zmix 7y agoMy all time favorite: "How nature says: 'Do not touch!'" Though, there are so many favorites, it's difficult not to come up with a long list.
- ncmncm 7y agoI remember the first one I ever saw. It was a bunch of porcupines standing around looking at a mattress with a porcupine lying on it. I didn't see another for months. I am embarrassed at how long it took me to get it, but it stuck with me until I did. I haven't seen it in any of the books. The article should have mentioned the Thagomizer ("after the late Thag Simmons"). Hmm, another obscure mattress reference I never noticed before this moment, 35 years later...
- anjel 7y agoSpamelopes