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Wonderful news! Gary Larson has always been my favorite cartoonist. Hilarious visual puns that teeter between dark and light humor so eloquently in a single p

Wonderful news! Gary Larson has always been my favorite cartoonist. Hilarious visual puns that teeter between dark and light humor so eloquently in a single pane. Really looking forward to more, thanks for coming back Gary! (...now I’m off to slip Bill Watterson a tablet and stylus and see if we can get some new C&H :)

magicnubs 6y ago
> (...now I’m off to slip Bill Watterson a tablet and stylus and see if we can get some new C&H :) Now I'm imagining Bill Watterson's take on Cyanide and Happiness
- mercer 6y ago
  How do I delete your comment!
- Shared404 6y ago
  I started making an edit of that, then I died inside and decided not to.
mercer 6y ago
For me Gary Larson is a close second to Watterson. That said, this is probably one of my favorite Far Side comics and there's a ton more that are just as great: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthegoodgreatsby.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fschool-for-gifted-gary-larson-far-side.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... Third in line would be either the Gaston universe (Franquin) or Goscinny's oeuvre (Lucky Luke, Asterix)
- newsbinator 6y ago
  I had a friend in high school who was in love with Far Side comics, although personally I never understood the passion for them. The same sort of joke would be a throwaway or interstitial gag in an animated show like Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, etc. It's a funny quip, play on words, or ironic situation and it earns a smile or an exhale, but it's hard for me to see what makes it so special.
  - mthoms 6y ago
    It probably has to do with the era. With the obvious exception of The Simpsons, this kind of humour was quite rare for its time. With the explosion of the internet (especially memes) and various animated shows it's now pretty ordinary. I'd be surprised if most of the modern famous animators (Trey and Matt, Seth MacFarlane, etc) weren't fans of The Far Side.
  - mercer 6y ago
    That's an interesting observation. I do agree that the shows you mention might have multiple Far Side-level gags in just a single episode. But as the other commenter argues, at the time it stood out. I'm perhaps a bit too young to have experienced The Far Side in its heyday, but I vividly remember the truly awful cartoons I'd read in the various newspapers I'd find in my day to day. Garfield was probably one of the better ones, and IMO Garfield is pretty shit, at least in hindsight. And yet I remember having Garfield collection books.

magicnubs 6y ago

> (...now I’m off to slip Bill Watterson a tablet and stylus and see if we can get some new C&H :) Now I'm imagining Bill Watterson's take on Cyanide and Happiness

mercer 6y ago
How do I delete your comment!
Shared404 6y ago
I started making an edit of that, then I died inside and decided not to.

mercer 6y ago

For me Gary Larson is a close second to Watterson. That said, this is probably one of my favorite Far Side comics and there's a ton more that are just as great: https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fthegoodgreatsby.files.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F05%2Fschool-for-gifted-gary-larson-far-side.jpg&f=1&nofb=1 https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2F... Third in line would be either the Gaston universe (Franquin) or Goscinny's oeuvre (Lucky Luke, Asterix)

newsbinator 6y ago
I had a friend in high school who was in love with Far Side comics, although personally I never understood the passion for them. The same sort of joke would be a throwaway or interstitial gag in an animated show like Family Guy, Bob's Burgers, etc. It's a funny quip, play on words, or ironic situation and it earns a smile or an exhale, but it's hard for me to see what makes it so special.
- mthoms 6y ago
  It probably has to do with the era. With the obvious exception of The Simpsons, this kind of humour was quite rare for its time. With the explosion of the internet (especially memes) and various animated shows it's now pretty ordinary. I'd be surprised if most of the modern famous animators (Trey and Matt, Seth MacFarlane, etc) weren't fans of The Far Side.
- mercer 6y ago
  That's an interesting observation. I do agree that the shows you mention might have multiple Far Side-level gags in just a single episode. But as the other commenter argues, at the time it stood out. I'm perhaps a bit too young to have experienced The Far Side in its heyday, but I vividly remember the truly awful cartoons I'd read in the various newspapers I'd find in my day to day. Garfield was probably one of the better ones, and IMO Garfield is pretty shit, at least in hindsight. And yet I remember having Garfield collection books.