#Gary Larson

[everydaylouie]

More Far Side Blender Recreations

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that what's brilliant about The Far Side is how it can imply an entire narrative with only a single panel. It's sequential art without the sequence. Like this one

There's the obvious implication of what's going to happen in the future (there's going to be a hunt), but it also stretches into the past: what circumstances in the anthropology of this group of cavemen must have happened to establish a tradition of dancing with Woolly Mammoths? Why does it, in spite of it's obvious absurdity, feel kind of right that there should be a dance before the cavemen and the mammoths engage in mortal combat? The reluctant fearful expression on the caveman at the bottom; is this his first hunt? Are those his elders trying to reassure him? Does the one mammoth actually seem to fancy him? What about the one looking fearfully back at his friends? How does he feel that the others aren't there to reassure him? One of the mammoths in the upper right looks just as fearful as the cavemen; why? etc.

And all of this is purely evoked. There's only simple line-drawing and two sentences of text, but you see it and it reminds you of other sorts of narratives you've seen or experienced, and your brain constructs a whole temporal sequence; and any possible answer you could get to above the questions would never be as satisfying as what your brain fills in.

I could write an entire essay about this.

[ultimateinferno]

If you weren't aware, the MTG Circlejerk subreddit has been making fake Far Side Secret Lairs and it's probably one of my favorite things lately.

[ungoliantschilde]

“Trouble Brewing”, by Gary Larson

[bretzkysbs]

[tomoleary]

Gary Larson “Quack? Quack!” The Far Side Daily Comic Strip Original Art dated 10-31-83 (Chronicle Features, 1983) Source

[kurbiismind]

Oh hey, Slime tools.

[mostly-funnytwittertweets]

[ozymandiasfoxmercury]

[a-book-of-creatures]

This particular Far Side comic always cracks me up

[everydaylouie]

Yeah, Sylvia...my set too...and in the middle of "Laverne and Shirley."

[fionastrashheap]

i had a vision

[swampthingy]

[beardedmrbean]

[quite-elementary]

This cartoon on the Shmeb-you-unlocked website made me think that Ford would definitely love Far Side cartoons and would freak out and have a crisis if he didn't understand one so I drew a thingy

Stan would completely understand most of the cartoons but would still let Ford explain them to him so that he'd feel smart again :))

Also the cartoons I refer to are these ones - 'cow tools' is famously hated for having confused a bunch of people including (allegedly) '40 or so professionals with doctorate degrees'.

[weirdlookindog]

The Far Side by Gary Larson