The Far Side

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All views expressed here are her own. Chinese Academy of Sciences. Subscribe to our weekly newsletter. Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, often twisted references to proverbs , or the search for meaning in life. Larson's frequent use of animals and nature in the comic is popularly attributed to his background in biology. Reruns are still printed in many newspapers.

The Far Side was ultimately carried by more than 1, daily newspapers, translated into 17 languages, and collected into calendars, greeting cards, and 23 compilation books. Larson was recognized for his work on the strip with the National Cartoonist Society Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award for and , [2] and with their Reuben Award for and The series was preceded by a similar panel called Nature's Way , also by Larson. Larson decided that he could increase his income from cartooning by selling his Nature's Way strip to another newspaper.

While on vacation in San Francisco , he pitched his work to the San Francisco Chronicle and, to his surprise, the Chronicle bought the strip and promoted it for syndication , renaming it The Far Side. One of The Far Side cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp? Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5 , detailing her version of the controversy, and the Institute's letter was included next to the cartoon in the complete Far Side collection.

The letters were written to newspaper publishers and often demanded the removal of The Far Side. Despite these protests, The Far Side remained popular and continued to run in many newspapers. Larson himself often laughs at the controversies as evidenced in The Prehistory of The Far Side , in which he writes that the people complaining have usually misunderstood the cartoon. In , Gary Larson drew a cover for the November 17 edition of The New Yorker magazine [10] the Cartoon Issue , a prestigious offer he said he could not refuse. Most The Far Side cartoons are a single rectangular panel, occasionally split into small sections of four, six, or eight for the purposes of a storyline.

A caption or dialogue usually appears under the panel as typed text, although word-balloons are sometimes used for conversations. Sunday comics were double-sized, done in watercolor or colored pencils, with captions handwritten in Larson's own hand. Most of Larson's comics relied on some combination of a visual and verbal gag, rather than just one or the other. Some recurring themes in the comic include people being stranded on desert islands, aliens , heaven, hell, and the life of cavepeople.

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Many cartoons focused on animals, especially cows, bears, dogs, flies, and ducks. Notably, virtually all characters portrayed in the comic were overweight or obese, and usually wearing glasses. In addition, unless needed for a facial or comic expression, eyes are almost never drawn and characters usually show only a brow ridge.

The cartoons were first collected in small books see list below , and some were then republished in larger best-of collections such as The Far Side Galleries. The five The Far Side Gallery books are the most popular, each of them collecting together the best cartoons from three smaller books, along with a humorous foreword by celebrity fans, including Stephen Jay Gould , Stephen King , Robin Williams , and Jane Goodall. In , The Prehistory of The Far Side was published to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the strip.

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In this book, Gary Larson discussed the development of The Far Side , and the public's reaction to it, and presented a selection of his personal favorites from the cartoon's history as well as previously unpublished sketches and strips rejected by his editor. In , The Complete Far Side was released, containing nearly every The Far Side comic ever published except for a few cartoons written for Christmas cards.

The collection is also missing parody art pieces from Wiener Dog Art , some material from The Prehistory of The Far Side , and a panel run for a caption writing contest in the Telegram-Tribune newspaper. The set was released in two volumes — and — with a foreword by Steve Martin and an introduction by Larson's longtime editor, Jake Morrisey. The first-edition hardcover boxed set weighs