On The Far Side

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For 15 years, Gary Larson took millions of readers over to the “Far Side.” Using anamorphic animals, chubby teenagers, universal emotions, a simple drawing style and a really bizarre, morbid sense of humor, The Far Side became one of the most successful - and praised - comic strips of all time.
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@TodayIFoundOut 6 жыл бұрын

Speaking of comic strip creators that very suddenly disappeared from the spot light, What Ever Happened to the Creator of Calvin and Hobbes: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kN19oZyHsrWmnYU.html

@rebeccagibbs4128 6 жыл бұрын

I have a framed copy of his jane goodall tramp comic SIGNED by jane goodall! Dr Goodall told me they have been good friends over the years and even spent time in the wild together! I think that cartoon, plus the one with the poodle being called into the barricaded doggy door were his most controversial over the years. Great video!

@timmmahhhh 6 жыл бұрын

Loved that one too thanks!

@ladbroke8374 6 жыл бұрын

This is the best video series ever.

@davidjackowski4336 6 жыл бұрын

I had a feeling that this was related to you C&H video!

@angelwhispers2060 6 жыл бұрын

Today I Found Out The fact that the writer considers daily desk calendars to be like literally printing money every year. Is exactly the kind of cynical bold-faced "I really give exactly zero s****," I would expect from the writer of Far Side. It's nice to know that there's at least one celebrity who doesn't disappoint ;)

@blowfishes 6 жыл бұрын

I love the backlash one of his comics received when it had a female chimpanzee finding a blond hair on the male and accused him of spending time with "... that Jane Goodall tramp" doing research. Despite the public backlash, Goodall actually loved the cartoon and it was used on a t-shirt for one of the many charities she is associated with.

@scaper8 5 жыл бұрын

Even more than that, Goodall's press people were amongst the people getting angry… until they found out that their boss, i.e. Goodall, loved it.

@travcollier 5 жыл бұрын

I remember that one. The Far Side always seemed to be viewed by (at least most) scientists as coming from "one of us". I'm not sure exactly why or how, but they never felt like someone from the outside poking fun at, much less attacking/vilifying, scientists. We do get an awful lot of that (the incompetent or evil scientist are very common tropes), but I don't know anyone in the sciences who ever felt Larson was doing that for some reason. :)

@BillDusty 5 жыл бұрын

I think their ire was specifically because the female chimp referred to Goodall as "that Jane Goodall tramp." LOL Some people just have no sense of humor. Happy to know Jane does ;-)

@JH-ji6cj 5 жыл бұрын

Good reminder that the times we are living in are the times we lived in...

@demef758 5 жыл бұрын

I was a genuine electrical engineer, and I checked daily to see if Larson had lampooned my profession, and by extension me, in one of his cartoons. I can tell you that ALL of my associates and I were the ones who laughed hardest and loudest. Good lord, if you can't laugh at yourself, then you have a few loose screws in your skull.

@stevedietrich8936 3 жыл бұрын

Impolite as they were, the other bears could never help staring at Larry's enormous deer gut.

@abrahamlincoln9758 2 жыл бұрын

And with a crash, Bessy's barnyard adventure came to an end.

@mjinba07 2 жыл бұрын

Much as I grieved the end of Far Side and do still miss it, I've always admired the decision to end the cartoon rather than have it slide into mediocrity or rehashed themes. Hearing that Larson's decision was at least in part a response to looming burn out is more admirable yet.

@evan1911 2 жыл бұрын

*coughs* "Garfield"

@plawson8577 2 жыл бұрын

@@evan1911 Davis hasn’t draw or Written Garfield since 1999.

@evan1911 2 жыл бұрын

@@plawson8577 maybe not. But the rights had been sold off since then and it's gone on looooong past it's due time

@gnosticelk8193 Жыл бұрын

@@plawson8577 and yet the comic strip continues to this day, the writing being achieved by an online random garfield generator, widely held to be funnier than the strips Davis himself wrote.

@jennyjohn704 Жыл бұрын

@@plawson8577 He does still write them, and still holds 'creative control', it's the drawing that is done by others now.

@StonyRC Жыл бұрын

Like most, I was disappointed when Gary Larson retired BUT the idea that he is living a quiet life, doing things he loves, playing his jazz and avoiding attention makes me very happy.

@thomashverring9484 8 ай бұрын

He posted a website last year or there abouts.

@MasterMalrubius 5 жыл бұрын

"Of course I killed him in cold blood. I"m a reptile."

@DieFlabbergast 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah: crocodile in court. Genius!

@stanislavkostarnov2157 3 жыл бұрын

technically, if the guy killed was in cold blood, it would more likely be a sign he was a reptile...

@tallstevenpaul9738 3 жыл бұрын

I proofread his books at the printing company when they were first published in early 1980’s.... I couldn’t stop laughing, he’s a genius!

@Brett_S_420 3 жыл бұрын

Lucky!

@sprintershepherd4359 2 жыл бұрын

that's a bit like a Far Side joke in itself Far Side proof reader laughs himself to death

@tallstevenpaul9738 2 жыл бұрын

@@sprintershepherd4359 lol that’s a good one!

@NZWarriors1995 2 жыл бұрын

Damn I was hoping proofread was two words :-P .... It does look a little weird though.

@sigep145 2 жыл бұрын

@@NZWarriors1995 Don't feel bad, I imagine it's tough to catch a proofreader making a mistake. At least one who was good at their job.

@00TheRealTC 2 жыл бұрын

One of my favourites is the time the Far Side took us to the Pet Store: among the various animals depicted, Larson drew a piranha merrily hanging out in a fish bowl… and a cat with two prosthetic front legs. 🤣

@andrewmole745 Жыл бұрын

And I couldn’t help chuckling again…

@catharinepizzarello4784 Жыл бұрын

And the sullen expression on the cat’s face 😂

@Nitephall 2 жыл бұрын

What made Larson great was his comics were actually funny, which can't be said of the majority of newspaper comics.

@gnosticelk8193 Жыл бұрын

yeah, comics like Far Side and Cathy are few and far in between

@cyclonesfan9169 Жыл бұрын

The Far Side’s hit to miss ratio was way better than any other comic in history.

@Tigerbrown44 Жыл бұрын

I loved reading the comics page growing up but so much of it is stale and repetitive. They need to bring in new artists and let all that old stuff go.

@brianmacintire3064 Жыл бұрын

@@gnosticelk8193 You really put those two in the same sentence....

@masteriansun Жыл бұрын

Agreed

@19crash78 4 жыл бұрын

I always loved the one where a polar bear is eating an igloo and says "I love these things. Crunchy on the outside, chewey in the middle."

@assassinlexx1993 2 жыл бұрын

That is one of my favorite comics too. My all time favorite is the bear with two human skulls the cubs . Tell us the story again. " Ralph do you think there is a bear in that cave"

@dagwood00049 2 жыл бұрын

I love the one where two bears are looking at some campers in sleeping bags. Hey look, sandwiches!

@joekurtz8303 Жыл бұрын

Similarly, a smiling Gator on a riverbank, pith helmet & glasses floating by, .... No horns, no hooves, no claws, just pink & tasty

@jonhanson6128 Жыл бұрын

I love you sir . Funny how you meet fans and after all these years we can name at lest 20 of our favorites cartoons he wrote

@kepckatherinec805 Жыл бұрын

Gary Larson-my favorite comic artist. I’m grateful for his unique sense of humor and how much joy he brought to so many lives. I had no idea anyone had ever objected to his comics. Must be very miserable people.

@jochenstacker7448 3 жыл бұрын

I love Gary Larson even more knowing that some people are actually upset by his drawings.

@richardarriaga6271 3 жыл бұрын

Everyone from religious conservatives to Carl Segan (for the caveman being stomped by dino bit).

@justinhill2378 3 жыл бұрын

Millennials didn't invent being offended. They just took it to the next level.

@psmirage8584 3 жыл бұрын

Like the religious guy offended by the "Appliance Faith Healers" comic because he believed faith healers were legitimate and Far Side was making fun of them.

@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 жыл бұрын

I love that he based his entire worldview on the sense of humor of himself and six friends.

@pollyparrot8759 3 жыл бұрын

Some people are upset by ANYTHING these days .... which is simply beyond parody.

@SteveDorrans 2 жыл бұрын

"The Arnolds feigned death until the Wagners, sensing awkwardness, were compelled to leave." I laughed until I was nearly sick at that one.

@friendlykiwi384 8 ай бұрын

Yessss!

@frocat5163 2 жыл бұрын

Hitting a dog on the way to a job interview for an animal cruelty inspector position is about the most _Far Side_ real-life scenario I've ever heard. I laughed way too hard at that.

@rebelndirt8830 4 жыл бұрын

I used to bag groceries for Gary Larson when I was a kid. He would come in about once a month and buy everything his family needed. He was one of my favorite customers even before I realized he was THE same Gary Larson from the Far Side. He was funny and just a bit off. He drove an early 80's beige Chevy truck and was just an all around cool guy.

@googiegress7459 3 жыл бұрын

Always good to hear that someone famous was just nice all around.

@kevinfan726 3 жыл бұрын

@Rebel N Trains Was this in Tacoma?

@addiepower 3 жыл бұрын

@Rebel N Trains On the Far Side of Narrows??

@johnbarker4084 3 жыл бұрын

I read in a full volume of The Far Side where he talked about going to the grocery store wearing a Far Side shirt Also I’ve been to Gig Harbor and it is delightful

@impalaSS65 2 жыл бұрын

Glad to hear he had a wide body chevy. Man of taste.

@charlesajones77 6 жыл бұрын

Luposlipaphobia: The fear of being chased around the kitchen table by timber wolves while wearing socks on a freshly waxed floor.

@datapod 6 жыл бұрын

Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

@nate_d376 6 жыл бұрын

Charles, I was wondering if I would see this one in the comments. It's still brought up round the dinner table when I visit my parents for the holidays! My family's favorite.

@micahphilson 6 жыл бұрын

I love how there are actual, stupidly weird medical conditions that only exist because of his comics!

@emmahorn3469 6 жыл бұрын

Charles Jones omgosh!! Hilarious

@terryl7855 6 жыл бұрын

Datapod growing up with animals, that made me laugh then/still does.

@EricaGamet 2 жыл бұрын

As a college freshman in 1986, another girl in my dorm had just gotten her page-a-day Far Side calendar. A bunch of us sat around pulling off each page and reading and describing each page's comic. We tried to stop so she would have a calendar, but it was too hard to stop. There was one that almost killed us and that I and my best friend (who I met that year at college) still laugh about to this day. It was the one with a bunch of lions after a kill... and one says something like, "Remember the time after a kill when you laughed so hard an antler came out your nose?" You'd have thought we were high, stupid, and drunk the way we laughed non-stop with that one. How many other comics have such lasting effect, 35 years later? Larson was a genius.

@johnclark1925 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! 😂

@lisagd22 Жыл бұрын

I still laugh at the cow poetry one. The first part goes something like "The hills call to me with their green grass." But the end of the poem is "Damn the electric fence! Damn the electric fence!" 😂

@MontagZoso 10 ай бұрын

I remember that lion cartoon and it made me laugh so hard (alas, no antler came out of my nose). That was an awesome one! ❤

@SeaBreeze2247 10 ай бұрын

Yes! That’s how clever they were. 😸

@warehousejo007 10 ай бұрын

2923.... 😂😂😂😂👍🏽😅

@BrianSmith-gp9xr Жыл бұрын

The world was a better place when Farside made us chuckle everyday. We were lucky to have had the art and humor of Gary Larson at that time . Brilliant simplicity..

@jerrybobteasdale 4 жыл бұрын

I really like that Thagomizer is now in the lexicon of paleontologists

@FaithFallRepentGraceRepeat 3 жыл бұрын

That was a classy & endearing move.

@ryandowney8743 3 жыл бұрын

#NeverForgetThagSimmons

@keirfarnum6811 3 жыл бұрын

I would think Larson would take that as the highest honor.

@xenxander 3 жыл бұрын

@@keirfarnum6811 he had a parasitic insect named after him, too.

@andrewclarke4902 3 жыл бұрын

@@xenxander according to Wikipedia: The Strigiphilus garylarsoni is a chewing louse[1] of a genus found only on owls.

@raven11356 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite is where bunch of scientist are standing around a crooked rocket and one of them saying "Let's face it guys, we're not exactly rocket scientist"

@juliancrooks3811 2 жыл бұрын

I wonder if Elon has that one?

@206Vin 2 жыл бұрын

Don't be afraid of pluralization

@Jestloo 2 жыл бұрын

As a kid, my dad introduced me to two comic series: “The Far Side” and “Calvin and Hobbes.” I love them both and own compilation books.

@HallowIsSmol 2 жыл бұрын

my dad did that too! it probably shaped my humor lol

@QueenetBowie Жыл бұрын

Same, both had great impacts on my childhood

@penismightier9278 Жыл бұрын

And despite weighing more than my cat, I still treasure both of them.

@chrissmith7669 Жыл бұрын

I had them and all the Bloom County

@jamesftoland Жыл бұрын

Berkeley Breathed sucked a ss

@spaztekwarrior 2 жыл бұрын

‘Simultaneously all three went for the ball, and the coconut-like sound of their heads colliding secretly delighted the bird. ‘ This was the cartoon inside my high-school locker in 1983. :)

@willmorrison1022 5 жыл бұрын

Welcome to Heaven, here is your harp. Welcome to hell, here is your accordion. I LOVE the Far Side.

@richardfowler3254 4 жыл бұрын

I used to play the accordion.... hahaha

@BigHeretic 4 жыл бұрын

"A gentleman is someone who knows how to play the accordion and doesn't"

@ThomasBrimacombe 4 жыл бұрын

I think Al Yankovic might take umbrage to that... but he'd probably still laugh.

@goudagirl6095 4 жыл бұрын

omg, me too! even more than Calvin & Hobbes. Just the ones in this video had me LMAO! **reminds self to get something Far Sidey**

@RavenMacy 4 жыл бұрын

@UCmkugEVBeyjw06FeSl45grA yep me to , after my calendar ran out of date I cut the pictures/comic out and put them on my wall , yes I was THAT KID lol , need more material 😁

@383mazda 5 жыл бұрын

One of my favs: handful of bruised and battered scientists standing around with one holding a boomerang and shouting, "we have got to figure out a means of disposing this hideous contraption"

@dragonson72 4 жыл бұрын

@383mazda, That and the Scientists building a rocket out of a wagon with the caption, Well it's not rocket science

@rgsultracomedy2867 4 жыл бұрын

That's genius

@skiddburns8664 4 жыл бұрын

Love it!

@michaelmartin9022 4 жыл бұрын

I got a birthday card once with a scientist working carefully on a bomb while another stands behind him, paper bag poised. Didn't need a caption!

@davidhonez8859 4 жыл бұрын

LOL I never saw that one

@bigcat618 Жыл бұрын

As a medical malpractice underwriter in the '80s, I loved the one with the patient on the operating table saying to the surgeon, "Leave a sponge in me, I can use the money."😄

@bonetattoo 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from the UK but was visiting family friends in Chicago in 1990 at 17 and the father introduced me to Larson in a bookshop. I literally cried with laughter there and then. Love his work on so many levels. Wish him well.

@ryangossett8211 8 ай бұрын

Did his work ever translate over to the UK?

@benjaminroe311ify 8 ай бұрын

@@ryangossett8211 Of course it did not require translation. They speak English in the UK.

@Foolish188 3 жыл бұрын

He really got Scientists. Back in the day, Science Professor's doors were covered with them.

@kimberlypatton9634 2 жыл бұрын

The whole point being - we MUST be able to laugh at ourselves,it's just a joke! Most of the people who are tightasses and they just HAVE to put up a prudish face and enjoy coaining and being cynical about thing that don't warrant their effort to drag through the mud.Just so they can "appear" indignant " and superior by being a hater.

@TheTeufelhunden68 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a Texan, and I really enjoyed the circle of buzzards around a kill, and one is wearing a western hat saying; "Look fellas, I'm a cowboy. Howdy, howdy, howdy."

@juliadagnall5816 3 жыл бұрын

And the fact that they used that joke in Toy Story

@TorquilBletchleySmythe 3 жыл бұрын

Yes! My all time favourite!

@RideAcrossTheRiver 3 жыл бұрын

I think I actually saw that one in the paper!

@IowaKim 2 жыл бұрын

There should be a dating website that separates out those who like Far Side & those who don't. Would make matchmaking so much simpler.

@irenemax3574 Жыл бұрын

Mention in your profile.

@CL-go2ji 11 ай бұрын

I would subscribe!

@debbylou5729 Ай бұрын

My ex wouldn’t even smile. GOD was practically SHOUTING, ‘HE’S NOT THE ONE!’ I don’t even think he got the cow one

@cynhanrahan4012 2 жыл бұрын

I adore Gary Larson. And I admire him even more for stopping when he felt it was right. Live your own life, Gary. You earned it.

@MrGOTAMA420 4 жыл бұрын

two spiders have streched a web across the bottom of a playground slide,,,the caption reads "If we pull this off we will eat like kings!"

@RedBear535 3 жыл бұрын

My favourite!

@nothingruler14All 3 жыл бұрын

This cartoon was the first one to ever make me laugh out loud. I laughed for hours. It's effing brilliant.

@r0cketplumber 3 жыл бұрын

We had that on the wall at XCOR where we were trying to build a suborbital space plane, and eventually orbital launch systems. Alas, we never did eat like kings- but I did get to fly six times on a rocket plane.

@djfglobal3377 3 жыл бұрын

@@r0cketplumber That is incredible!

@PhilHibbs 3 жыл бұрын

How did anyone ever complain about bad taste? 🤨

@motojauntx 3 жыл бұрын

Chicago burns in the distance. One cow says to another cow, “It seems that agent 6373 has accomplished her mission.”

@juliancrooks3811 2 жыл бұрын

Classic 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@JFDSmit-rm6tw 2 жыл бұрын

Wouldn't that be hitting close to home nowadays...

@poshko41 2 жыл бұрын

I lent a book of Far Side cartoons to my human evolution professor in college. He wrapped his arms around it and gasped in excitement like I’d just handed him over the skull of a newly discovered human ancestor. 😂

@barbaradace7952 2 жыл бұрын

I loved Gary’s story of the callback from the SF Chronicle after he left his portfolio with the cartoon editor: “Is this Gary Larson?” “Yes...” “You’re SICK!!!” “I LOVE it!!!!” “Ah, okay....” ;-)

@fredschwake1048 4 жыл бұрын

I love the one where two deer were talking to each other and one says to the other(who had a target on his side),,,"bummer of a birth mark, Ralph".

@bubbalandbeau9872 3 жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure his name was Hal... not Ralph. My favorite!

@stevedietrich8936 3 жыл бұрын

@@bubbalandbeau9872 Yep. Hal is how I remember it as well.

@kevinfan726 3 жыл бұрын

Hal! I have said this to myself at least once a month since that comic came out. My favorite (I have the mug) is What we say vs what dogs hear.

@interestingiftrue8668 3 жыл бұрын

hal.. and the target is on his chest.. just sayin

@youtubeaccount5153 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry. But they are right. It’s Hal.

@Diachron 5 жыл бұрын

Scientists seated at a table, looking through a one-way mirror to study primates. Eventually one makes a keen discovery: "For crying out loud, gentlemen! That's us! Someone's installed the one-way mirror backwards!"

@marvindebot3264 Жыл бұрын

Gary is up there with XKCD for one-panel genius. The fact the Thagamiser was so named is one of my favourite moments in science.

@Zaluskowsky 8 ай бұрын

Hilarious

@BA-gn3qb 2 жыл бұрын

Bird's eye view: Bird in a tree looking down at people, cats, dogs, and cars - All with a Bullseye on top of them.

@stephenclark5812 4 жыл бұрын

Two polar bears tearing up an igloo---I love these things, crunchy on the outside chewy in the middle.

@gwynyvyr 4 жыл бұрын

My absolute favorite!!! I even had the coffee mug with that cartoon on it. Alas, it got broken many years ago.

@changeintheair9648 4 жыл бұрын

@@gwynyvyr I have an old FS mug that has 3 goldfish standing outside their fish bowl. There is fire burning up their home in the fish bowl. The one fish says to the others, "Well thank God we all made it out in time ...course now we are equally screwed" I just love it. I have all his books, used to buy yearly desk calendars too. I miss Larson.

@RichardAHolt 3 жыл бұрын

"The Far Side", "Calvin & Hobbes" & Monty Python, all major influences in my life. No wonder I laugh at the absurdity of life and see humor in situations others take as serious.

@brettrobinson2901 3 жыл бұрын

Those were your major influences? You are NOW BEING SURROUNDED BY THE FBI!...COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS UP!...AND YOUR FLY DOWN!.....actually...that's optional.😕

@Jamesvandaele 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@bruceanderson7762 3 жыл бұрын

Gotcha!

@arizonasunflowers5226 2 жыл бұрын

How about the "old" MAD magazine?!!? It was also absolutely awesome back in the day! Why don't we have anything like this today? No one has a wicked sense of humor anymore? I loved the one where a rather obese lady is standing with her back to us and is calling out "Fluffy? Fluffy, come to Mama! Where are you, Sweetie?" We see a doggy lodged between her butt cheeks with its eyes & tongue stuck out & appears to be squished on the back of her capris, dead, I believe... That comic KILLED me!!! 😂🤣😅😁😜🤣😅😁 I really liked The Far Side. It was a big part of what made the 1970s so cool!

@literaterose6731 8 ай бұрын

Same!

@elenaderoet4926 3 жыл бұрын

I will never, ever forget the first time I came across a collection of Gary Larson's work. I was in my single digits and was absolutely entranced by them.... granted, some of it went over my head at that age, but that did not diminish my love for his work at all. The same thing can be said for Calvin and Hobbes. Although I must say that I am very glad they didn't have Calvin and Hobbes when I was actually Calvin's age or where I could have accessed the cartoons, because I would have been just like him and done so gleefully. My grandmother passed a few days ago, and she was who introduced me to Gary Larson's work

@philjackson1713 Жыл бұрын

Not many people have caused so much joy and happiness as Gary Larson. Thank you.

@ZlothZloth Жыл бұрын

Joy, happiness, and confusion.

@ryangossett8211 8 ай бұрын

@@ZlothZloth I was about to say Bewilderment!

@ramonvalencia5719 4 жыл бұрын

Hard to pick a favorite, but this one's a contender: A group of cowboys is sitting around a campfire, toasting marshmallows. One cowboy is standing and holding a smoking gun, another cowboy is lying dead on the ground. The standing cowboy says to the group, "You're all witnesses. He laughed when my marshmallow caught fire."

@user-vt7qv8kg4i 3 жыл бұрын

My fave is, the sign in the front yard that says "Beware of Doug" and the boy is peeking out from behind the tree.

@MarkMcLT 2 жыл бұрын

I think my favorite is the airline pilot saying to his co-pilot "Say, what's a mountain goat doing up here in a cloud bank?"

@Matt_Barnes 2 жыл бұрын

Mine will always be the one of a man stepping out of his bed in the morning, looking at a massive sign on his wall that reads "Pants first, THEN your shoes." I've had an 8x11 sign saying the same thing pinned to the inside of my armoire for years! Second favorite is the silhouette of a snake on a cliff in the desert, hissing at the moon like a wolf would howl. Bless this man for the 30 seconds of joy he gave us every day.

@dougmcelroy3780 2 жыл бұрын

Yes, and as someone named Doug myself, I wasn't sure if this was a compliment or an insult.

@demef758 2 жыл бұрын

"That's not funny." - Doug

@WhatfaceRoberts Жыл бұрын

I loved the "Beware of Doug" one, because I have a brother named Doug. Although, you didn't have to beware of him. He's nice.😂😂

@Belleplainer Жыл бұрын

When I was a kid I loved The Far Side. It was the first thing I read when I opened the paper. When I was around 13 years old, our paper stopped carrying it, which ticked me off. About a month later, the paper ran an editorial saying they were bringing it back. They said the reason they dropped it was to save money (this was around the 1988 to 1990 time frame when newspapers first started experiencing sharp declines in their readership), but that they received so many letters from subscribers complaining about it and had people actually cancel their subscriptions because of it, so they were bringing it back. They kept it until Gary Larson's last comic.

@samuraikitty18 2 жыл бұрын

I love The Far Side, and love Larson even more knowing he was born and raised in my area! My mom was also born in Tacoma, WA. Miss his cartoons...favorite: Boy in schoolroom with tiny head raising his hand and saying, "May I be excused? My brain is full...."

@ChrisHibbardCarltonLillyBonny 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite also... especially as I've aged.

@plawson8577 2 жыл бұрын

Tacoma, aka Pierce County, aka South Seattle. I thought Larson was born in Lynwood.

@hyrumhanson3390 5 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite ones was the ark has a dozen holes in the side with the caption of: "the woodpekers have to go!"

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 3 жыл бұрын

I like the one where Noah who is looking rather pissed off. Is standing next to some big cats (lions, leopards etc.) who have just made a kill & says. *"Well so much for the unicorns! From now on all carnivores are restricted to deck C."*

@youtubeaccount5153 2 жыл бұрын

The where a child is in front of a blown up chemistry set. His face obviously in the explosion. “God as kid tries to make a chicken in his room.”

@itwasagoodideaatthetime7980 2 жыл бұрын

@@youtubeaccount5153 How about the God making Earth with 'Earth-quick' & saying as he takes it out of the oven. *"Something tells me this thing is half baked"* 🌎 🤣

@Mega_Mikey 4 жыл бұрын

Anatadaeiphobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

@sprintershepherd4359 2 жыл бұрын

lol doesn't even need a picture cartoon . its fun imagining a cartoon in the Larson style for yourself . go on try it :)

@datasecure5790 2 жыл бұрын

Far side gallery 2. Was the book this was in

@Matelot123 2 жыл бұрын

Luposlipophobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table whilst wearing socks on a newly waxed floor.

@tadcastertory1087 2 жыл бұрын

@@Matelot123 Love that cartoon.

@barbararowley6077 2 жыл бұрын

Most of the scientists I know share Larsen’s sense of humour. Our main tutor in Zoology had his entire door plastered in Far Side panels, and there were quite a few up in the Biochemistry department of my first lab too. Along with my favourite medical Far Side knock off - a penguin couple anxiously visiting Dr Penguin, one of them balancing an egg on their head. “Well, Mrs Penguin”, says Dr Penguin, “these ectopic pregnancies can be tricky”.

@willjerden7024 3 жыл бұрын

Strigiphilus garylarsoni is a species of chewing louse found only on owls. It was named after Gary Larson, creator of the syndicated cartoon The Far Side. In a letter to Larson, Clayton praised the cartoonist for "the enormous contribution that my colleagues and I feel you have made to biology through your cartoons." In his 1989 book The Prehistory of the Far Side, Larson stated, "I considered this an extreme honor. Besides, I knew no one was going to write and ask to name a new species of swan after me. You have to grab these opportunities when they come along."[3] Clayton wrote he honored Larson "in appreciation of the unique light he has shed on the workings of nature."[1] -Wikipedia

@sarahleonard7309 4 жыл бұрын

The reason we scientists like the very Far Side comics that make fun of us is that they're embarrassingly true, and clearly done with love. We just like being included.

@FairbrookWingates 4 жыл бұрын

And Lord knows we've all had days where we feel like were' pushing on a door marked 'pull'.

@siggyretburns7523 3 жыл бұрын

Kind of an ice breaker for the non scientific community getting in the field?

@davidjones3165 3 жыл бұрын

The strips with scientists are some of the funniest

@demef758 3 жыл бұрын

It used to be that we could laugh at others as well as laugh at ourselves. Those days are long gone. To laugh at all is now illegal and will result in jail time.

@steimystein4368 3 жыл бұрын

I Can't think of anyone in any occupation didn't have their favorite Far Side comic taped or pinned on a wall in their office or place of business.

@sagerman6779 4 жыл бұрын

I'll never forget the image of one dog left in the yard as the other pulls away in a car, yelling from the back seat, "ha ha I'm going to get tutored!"

@peggyseabrun4829 4 жыл бұрын

That's the first of his cartoons that comes to mind anytime we discuss the Far Side!

@happycomfort3026 4 жыл бұрын

SagerMan67 😂👍

@scottmcman7659 4 жыл бұрын

I had to think for a second, then I'm LOLing!

@UpRoaryus 4 жыл бұрын

my favorite was always the door to the "School for the Mentally Gifted" where the student is leaning with all his might trying to open the door that says "PULL"

@justvin7214 4 жыл бұрын

The one that I immediately think of is the one where the cows are in the field standing around chatting until one shouts 'A CAR'S COMING!'

@scottturcotte1860 2 жыл бұрын

Both Farside and Calvin and Hobbs were some of my favorites, they always seemed bring out some similar parallel experience you had to your mind, so in essence, you were always laughing both at the comic, and the memory of whatever similar situation that it made you remember, and smile knowing you weren't the only one who witnessed all these laughable absurdities in your life around you... I think this is a sort of testament to any comic genius, when, something is constantly being created that can trigger your own imagination and make you laugh or smile about things on several levels at once...

@rickheuft476 2 жыл бұрын

The Far Side, Calvin and Hobbs also Dilbert. The trilogy of satire.

@carlmarburger7513 2 жыл бұрын

Nailed it!

@slamhart1 3 жыл бұрын

"Raymond's last day as the band's sound technician", as he's turning up the "suck" dial in front of an angry rock crowd

@howieduin915 3 жыл бұрын

I love the cat with 2 artificial paws sitting next to the piranha tank.

@shevetlevi2821 2 жыл бұрын

LMAO. You never see it coming.

@e.jamesshepard7183 2 жыл бұрын

@HowieDoin That is my absolute favorite far side. Probably because of my hatred for cats.

@partygrove5321 2 жыл бұрын

They were peg legs, lol

@howieduin915 2 жыл бұрын

@@e.jamesshepard7183 I like the cartoon cuz that's just the way my sense of humor runs. I sorta like cats. Their f...you attitude amuses me, more than aggravates me. I also like the bears that refer to the 2 hunters in their sleeping bags as sandwiches.

@BingQilin 2 жыл бұрын

Mine is the couple in the car watching a family cross the street and the lady going, "Look, Roger! Nerds with some little nerdlings!"

@DawnDavidson 2 жыл бұрын

I adore The Far Side. I once accompanied my boyfriend to a an office party. They held the party in the halls of the SF Academy of Sciences. We had the run of most of the exhibits that night. I spent most of my time in the exhibit of original Far Side cartoons, including the infamous “Why the dinosaurs really went extinct.” Best. Party. Ever.

@ninjaswordtothehead 2 жыл бұрын

The "School for the Gifted" has been on my corkboard at work for years. Never fails to make me laugh.

@Ivy94F 2 жыл бұрын

I have that one on a Tshirt. Lol!

@HemlockRidge 4 жыл бұрын

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression

@Masked_SVincent 3 жыл бұрын

Same

@frogpalpeeper4249 3 жыл бұрын

My favorite was "Edgar finds his purpose".

@greatraven1 3 жыл бұрын

Cowboys by the campfire. The cowboy with the coffee pot offers: “Latte, Jed?”

@ChipmunkRapidsMadMan1869 3 жыл бұрын

Be happy... bread and deep fry that SOG

@obviousalias132 3 жыл бұрын

A colleague just drew that chicken (with no caption, just the window and chicken) on a whiteboard at work and I immediately recognized it.

@jimtownsend7899 4 жыл бұрын

"Say, what's a mountain goat doing up here in a cloud bank?"

@darksidemachining 4 жыл бұрын

As a pilot, that one especially cracked me up.

@elizzievb 3 жыл бұрын

Had never seen that one and I seriously laughed out loud. Priceless.

@bardmadsen6956 3 жыл бұрын

It is really strange that people were offended by cartoons, probably religious reasons. That one from the airline cockpit was humorous to me even though back in the 70's I pushed the plane out of the hangar and fueled it up at 3:00 am for a friend whom hours later flew right into a mountain.

@medexamtoolsdotcom 3 жыл бұрын

That particular strip was the 9/11 of farside cartoons.

@JTCT371 Жыл бұрын

Im so glad I bought nearly every Far Side collection book back in the 80s...This was the greatest comic of all time.

@lisawall3386 2 жыл бұрын

This episode had me smiling the minute I saw the title. Smiled all the way through. I love this man's sense of humor. Always have. It's good to know he's doing well and enjoying life. Thanks for the laughs, Gary! Carry on.......💌

@erikbrantly4015 4 жыл бұрын

"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear." Giant monster eye filling it.

@a_diamond 3 жыл бұрын

@ndowroccus4168 3 жыл бұрын

One of the top ten

@MikefromQueens 3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@leert2698 3 жыл бұрын

We still bring that one up along with with the Texas buzzards. Haha

@patrick.garriga2549 3 жыл бұрын

My fav!!!

@clbcl5 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite was bears sitting in a cave with ducks up their nose. Caption, Their environment destroyed, Bears have resorted to snorting quack.

@BoojumFed 6 жыл бұрын

Wolves, but yeah ;^)

@jamesanthony8438 5 жыл бұрын

I liked the one with the one bear holding two skulls with baseball caps on it's paws like hand puppets entertaining the smaller bears and the larger bear says something like, "Okay, one more time. Gee Billy, do you think there are any bears in this cave? I don't know, let's go look!"

@perplacymp 5 жыл бұрын

Joe, you stay with the honey! Maybe that bear is injured and maybe it ain't.

@rexstetson1717 5 жыл бұрын

James Anthony - that one is absolutely brilliant. Let’s go look. Aaaahhh haa ha ha ha!!!

@johnsmith-xh6je 5 жыл бұрын

two guys dying from thirst crawl to reach the top of a desert sand dune only so see a camel crawling toward them, caption: this doesn't look good !

@Perktube1 2 жыл бұрын

My other favorite is a split panel one about the scientist who invented a translator helmet to understand dogs. The left side shows a bunch of dogs going "Bark, bark, bark, " and the right side shows all the dogs going "Hey, hey, hey… " Hilarious.

@okd521 2 жыл бұрын

I was thinking of that one too it'always sticks in my head when I hear dogs barking

@GREENPUKE99 Жыл бұрын

Another of my favorites. My favorite The Far Side was two aliens standing next to a flying saucer with a clear bubble canopy. One has his hands cupped around his eyes, pearing through the bubble. The other is looking off to a distant hill with a large crowd of people cresting in and saying "Well, here they come. You locked the keys inside, you do the talking."

@diamondmemer9754 5 ай бұрын

That joke is painfully unfunny

@MarcPipistrello 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite comic of all time. I want a herd of "Far Side Cow" cut-outs in my yard standing on their hind legs smoking cigs and drinking coffee with one yelling "CAR!"

@sharongeorge5449 3 жыл бұрын

I want that too, but with martinis.

@patrickhorvath2684 3 жыл бұрын

Better one like that is ; The Real reason dinosaurs went extinct...

@timgiraud7591 3 жыл бұрын

A friend left that comic on my drafting table... Clearly he was attempting to save my job 😏

@ccarter1378 2 жыл бұрын

that was my favorite one! only I think it should have been beer, instead of coffee. 😆

@ronfullerton3162 2 жыл бұрын

Being an old farm boy, I always thought that one to be a classic. As to other animals both domestic and wild around the farm, the dairy cows just seemed to be more laid back and having it together. I could just see them having a look out to warn them to act as expected when a human approached.

@captainskippy6622 4 жыл бұрын

My favorite cartoon strip ever! As a retired police officer my favorite was the investigator looking over a crime scene postulating curiosity killed the cat.

@markchip1 10 ай бұрын

The FAR Side is simply THE BEST cartoon ever drawn by man!!! Utter brilliance!!!

@okd521 2 жыл бұрын

You can often tell a person's level of intelligence by their ability to see humor in things. I'm not surprised many people were offended by his work, there's a lot of stupid people out there.

@valevisa8429 Жыл бұрын

You know who got offended by his cartoons ? The moral less evangelicals who later choose Trump as president.

@sheerluckholmes5468 Жыл бұрын

All them stupid people should be made to wear a sign.

@bradwilliams1691 Жыл бұрын

In this day and age they are called "Lefties" or "Leftists" & they are offended by absolutely everything despite understanding it or not.

@Rhaspun Жыл бұрын

The people who were offended by his cartoons were taking his cartoons too seriously. Larson was poking fun at anyone.

@j.rebekah8605 Жыл бұрын

@@valevisa8429ongratulations on making everything about Trump. Shows what a progressive brilliant thinker you are. I would vote for Trump again, and Larson is the best cartoonist. Ruminate on that (imagine cow standing up, chewing cud, with your clothes on).

@michaelb1478 4 жыл бұрын

Loved the Far Side. One of my favorites was the two pilots flying in a cloud bank and one asking the second how that mountain goat got into the clouds.

@AngryHybridApe 4 жыл бұрын

I never seen that one. Thats great.

@GlennWH26 5 жыл бұрын

"Remember me, Mr. Simmons? Kenya, 1954. When you shoot an elephant, Mr. Simmons, make sure to finish the job."

@blueshattrick 4 жыл бұрын

Without ever seeing that comic, I can still picture it perfectly... probably the best compliment I could pay Gary :D

@jimwilloughby 4 жыл бұрын

@@blueshattrick I had the same reaction.

@MrUndersolo 4 жыл бұрын

That was one of my favourites!

@stephenlitten1789 4 жыл бұрын

@@MrUndersolo Hell of a birthmark, Hal

@scottiver 4 жыл бұрын

@@stephenlitten1789 I believe it was "bummer of a birthmark Hal" : )

@BruceMusto 2 жыл бұрын

I find it hilarious that Seattle thought his cartoon was weird and offensive.

@EricaGamet 2 жыл бұрын

As a Seattleite, I was quite confused, as well.

@lsimpson8307 2 жыл бұрын

I was about to say the same thing. Seattle is another planet.

@danialcourtney5969 2 жыл бұрын

After a shocking number of people failed at pumping their own gas, i can see Seattle being mad at Far Side

@ErikPortland Жыл бұрын

The Seattle Times was (still is) the more conservative paper vs the Seattle Post-Intelligencer then. The Times covered more of the region, but I think in the city, people preferred the P-I. I subscribed to the P-I in the late '90s.

@ErikPortland Жыл бұрын

Seattle has a more prudish past than San Francisco. Remember, this was the late 70s too. Boeing town and before Microsoft.

@jasoneverett Жыл бұрын

'The Far Side' and 'Calvin and Hobbes' are the only comics that regularly made me literally laugh out loud.

@Ravenforce3 3 жыл бұрын

"May I be excused? My brain is full."

@ChrisHibbardCarltonLillyBonny 2 жыл бұрын

My personal favorite.

@SupermarketSweep777 4 жыл бұрын

Two fishermen watching a line of mushroom clouds rising over the hills. "I'LL tell what this means Norm. No size restrictions and SCREW the limit!"

@azelkhntr4992 3 жыл бұрын

I've got that coffee cup in my camping trailer! A prized possession it is.

@randellgribben9772 3 жыл бұрын

just sent this to north american fly fishing board( the cartoon )

@celestepalm6949 3 жыл бұрын

@Bruce Portela Wow, that one really was some dark humor!

@vinceedwards3978 2 жыл бұрын

That was a great one!!!

@pbandj37 2 жыл бұрын

My kinda weird, kinda just like me uncle got me that shirt with that cartoon on it for Christmas 1996. I finally threw it out not too long ago. I wore that thing to its proverbial death.

@marksellers4875 Жыл бұрын

"God makes snakes" is a personal favorite of mine. I HOWLED when I found out they actually named the tail of a stegasaurus from The Far Side! Life imitating art... Pure genius that NEVER gets old

@jonathanmcvay5779 2 жыл бұрын

I miss his cartoons so much. I have very occasionally found one that I’ve not seen. It is like striking gold. Come back Mr. Larson!!

@richardshermanjr1899 3 жыл бұрын

I'm a carpenter. In my shop I hung the far side cartoon where in an art gallery people are looking at a famous painting and a woman says "My son made the frame." I like it because people always talk about paintings but never about the frame somebody made.

@villedocvalle 2 жыл бұрын

I do, as a picture framer myself.

@richardshermanjr1899 2 жыл бұрын

@@villedocvalle Thanks for replying. I do woodworking as a hobby in my shop and I've made a lot of picture frames and other things in there.

@picklerix6162 2 жыл бұрын

The funny thing is that some people buy old paintings because they like the frame which is often worth more than the painting itself.

@andylane3739 2 жыл бұрын

The right frame makes a print or painting POP

@seanfaherty 2 жыл бұрын

When I give away a painting I always tell people the frame is worth more than the painting ( I make the frames too so it ain't worth much )

@caryd67 3 жыл бұрын

“I will now test these gentle giants’ sense of humour with this simple hand buzzer.”

@jmanj3917 2 жыл бұрын

"Thagomizer" Lmao Classic How many takes to say those lines with a straight face?

@brydeelz6599 2 жыл бұрын

I'm sure he isn't perusing youtube comments (should anyone hoping to maintain mental wellbeing?), but if he is, I gotta thank this Gary Larson guy. His comics really influenced me a great deal as a kid; not only did they make me goofy as all hell, but they were surprisingly educational in a sense. A lot of things in life and various sciences I encountered, only to say "Oh yeah, like in the Far Side!". Without the Far Side and Calvin and Hobbes, I'd be a lot less knowledgeable about the world around me, and not twisted enough to laugh at it.

@joshuacalkins 4 жыл бұрын

A kid in band class holding only one cymbal, repeating to himself “I won’t screw up, I won’t screw up, I won’t screw up.” Caption: Ernie screws up.

@danieldaniels7571 4 жыл бұрын

I think you mean cymbal

@florencepierce1864 3 жыл бұрын

Damn you, awto-kurrect, Damm. Ewe!

@jchinckley 3 жыл бұрын

@@danieldaniels7571 perhaps... but "symbol", particularly if Larson had drawn an uncommon one, would have been hilarious.

@danieldaniels7571 3 жыл бұрын

@@jchinckley ♾

@thesterndragoon9159 3 жыл бұрын

A scientist carefully hammering something into a side panel of a warhead-tipped missile he's assembling and a guy right behind him about to pop a bag filled with air with his hand.

@sprintershepherd4359 2 жыл бұрын

lol

@benbaker6221 2 жыл бұрын

My favourite one

@greglapointe1311 2 жыл бұрын

That was one of my favorites!

@zakbzak7 2 жыл бұрын

I probably rolled on the floor for an hour when I got a card with that image for my 12th birthday. It still cracks me up.

@G8GTJav 2 жыл бұрын

That was a classic.

@tangojuli209 Жыл бұрын

The power of gary larsons work is evident in how fast my tears of grief dried and a smile emerged while listening to this short bio.

@jamestyler3698 2 жыл бұрын

I always love the one where it is three guys who have clearly been lost in the desert for a while and they are lined up at a drinking fountain in the sand and the front guys is saying,” now hold your horses guys I’m sure it will get cold any moment now” hahahahahahahaha!!

@katiekane5247 6 жыл бұрын

My all time favorite is still referenced by my family. Dog shows up at a door for a date & says " Ginger, you look lovely & what ever you rolled in sure does stink".

@901EE 5 жыл бұрын

It was a great pleasure to have Gary Larson in a class I taught at Washington State University. He drew comics on the test papers before he turned them in! Great fun!

@ccarta192 2 жыл бұрын

My favorite: the CLOWN shopping for a gun with the caption reading "laugh at me will they. "

@dhh488 2 жыл бұрын

The Far Side and Bloom County were great comics.

@waynes866 4 жыл бұрын

I loved The Far Side. I recall a coworker (whose name was Doug) proudly displaying the single frame comic "Beware of Doug".

@josephburton2248 5 жыл бұрын

My favorite was 2 sabertooth tigers munching in a tree and one looks at the other and says " I have heard them scream alot of things but yabba dabba doo was a new one "

@Keopp69 Жыл бұрын

High school 1985 sociology class teacher always put up the latest comic on the bulletin board. It was the best part of my day.

@27Metaldragon 2 жыл бұрын

There's a nice little epilogue to Gary Larson's story. A few years back he bought a tablet. He had been drawing Christmas cards for decades for friends and family and it was the most Far Side ever lived on. He's quoted as saying he absolutely dreaded the work. So he bought a tablet to try and help himself out. It was so much less of a "pain in the ass" that it almost instantly rekindled his love of drawing because it took all the tedium out of the process and just let him work. So he has since falled back in love with art where as by the end of Far Side's run I doubt you could have paid him enough to keep going.

@condorboss3339 6 жыл бұрын

My favorite Far Side cartoon was the one where a guy is driving down the highway. In his mirror, all you can see is a huge eyeball. On the bottom of the mirror are the words "Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear."

@TheGuardDuck 6 жыл бұрын

Now the question is, did Jurassic Park rip that off?

@surfeit5910 5 жыл бұрын

Or the human-sized bee sitting in the back seat and the woman talking herself into acting natural and ignoring it :D

@scottmantooth8785 5 жыл бұрын

and you know very well that precise concept was years ahead of it being used in Jurassic Park

@JH-ji6cj 5 жыл бұрын

Love how all these descriptions are all I need to go straight back to the drawings!

@maryjennings4913 4 жыл бұрын

I liked the one where a guy was washing his car, and there was a bird above him on an electrical line, saying "You're mine, all mine!"

@RexAlfieLee 2 жыл бұрын

I loved The Farside. It was & probably still its the best of that kind of cartoon ever. Garfield was the runner-up then Footrot Flats. The memory of Farside's image of a bull blowing up a rubber sexdoll cow & another bull leaning in the doorway saying, "She's looking a real beaut Merv" is just too funny.

@KateCarew 2 жыл бұрын

The Far Side is a huge part of who I am. I was both in ‘78 and never missed a square. I was obsessed with his work amen it led me to so many library trips and learning experiences.

@DrGH201 4 жыл бұрын

Calvin and Hobbes made me smile but The Far Side made me laugh hysterically.

@Rainy1dae 4 жыл бұрын

Both make me laugh outloud.

@judyl.761 3 жыл бұрын

Same. No comic has made me laugh out loud hard except The Far Side.

@joshuacalkins 3 жыл бұрын

They do have similarities, like being clever, artistic and thought provoking. I studied philosophy where the C&H author did. He named his tiger Hobbes, and I named my cat.

@DrGH201 3 жыл бұрын

@@joshuacalkins Kenyon College, yes? I had all of his books in a box somewhere. When my son was about 11, he found them. He loved them, read them over and over, and has all of those books to this day. He’s in college now and still talks about them from time to time. Watterson’s work transcends time and generations.

@joshuacalkins 3 жыл бұрын

@@DrGH201 That’s the place! I often recall the book my brother gave me, decades ago, “There’s treasure Everywhere!” It was C&H’s delighted reaction to the various debris they had found with a metal detector. As usual, Watterson’s thoughtful insight is funny and uplifting. Cool story about your son.

@noahdoss1967 3 жыл бұрын

One of my favourites of his since I was very young was “Inconvenience Stores.” Just a single shelf about 30 feet up.

@jamesrobiscoe1174 2 жыл бұрын

I love it. His scope was wide.

@deemoe7301 Жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@emitindustries8304 Жыл бұрын

All that talent, and a jazz musician. Figures. One of my favorites is the single cell critter dressed as a cowboy holding a lariat, saying: "Well, it's adios, ameobas!"