Coming back?
https://www.cnet.com/news/the-far-side-could-be-back-from-extinction-and-the-timings-so-right/?fbclid=IwAR3a2iM0kNelQzkAizdSwDsDQP3WwpeYlU-0x2rnMYvUQUiAuc31vwGJKe4#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0i
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 04:12 (four years ago) link
timings so right fbclid=IwAR3a2iM0kNelQzkAizdSwDsDQP3WwpeYlU-0x2rnMYvUQUiAuc31vwGJKe4#ftag=COS-05-10aaa0i
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 05:12 (four years ago) link
yes!
thefarside.com
was going to say nickn, from my recent reading of these threads, when you link from facebook you should delete the part of the link starting with the question mark before you post it. It doesn't change the link itself, but according to sic it eliminates a tag that is sent to advertisers and other third parties
― Dan S, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 05:26 (four years ago) link
like this? https://www.cnet.com/news/the-far-side-could-be-back-from-extinction-and-the-timings-so-right/
― nickn, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 06:38 (four years ago) link
👍as far as I know
― Dan S, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 06:46 (four years ago) link
yes! it's cool and easy to do, and is better for the site you're linking to, & for ILX (though that ship may have long been holed), and means that Facebook are not parasitically stealing money and credit
― now let's play big lunch take little lunch (sic), Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:29 (four years ago) link
If you search for 'fbclid' on the addons (firefox) or extensions (chrome) sites, you'll find simple addons that automatically remove parameters like 'fbclid', 'gclid', 'utm_source=' etc
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 17 September 2019 08:39 (four years ago) link
He's back
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:27 (three years ago) link
Larson coming back after 25 years with such a groan-worthy gag does my heart good.
― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:44 (three years ago) link
The alien one is the best
― Duane Barry, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 21:53 (three years ago) link
seeing those made me happy for a minute, which is good enough for me
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:06 (three years ago) link
Yes!
― calstars, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:23 (three years ago) link
Bears Eating Cub Scouts is kinda perfect
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:40 (three years ago) link
Am I missing the joke there or is it just like a descriptive painting title?
― jmm, Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:42 (three years ago) link
imo, it's the best kind of inscrutable Far Side silliness where a dumb idea is fully executed and well rendered; of course they eat them at a picnic table and pour honey on their completely clothed, bespectacled chubby bodies.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 22:45 (three years ago) link
Yeah that one really hits the zone
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 7 July 2020 23:55 (three years ago) link
These are good, but I can only truly appreciate them if I also have my Letterman Top 10 List books sitting next to them on the bookshelf.
― Tōne Locatelli Romano (PBKR), Wednesday, 8 July 2020 12:21 (three years ago) link
For me, it'll always be about how Larson nails certain expressions - the bug-eyed stuffed moose and raccoon, the prone boy scout - and also the reserve: like, he could have drawn the bears with the tongues out doing "look at this tasty sandwich" expressions, but instead, it's their lack of joy and intense concentration that makes the cartoon funny (and creepy)
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
And this blank stare speaks only of a half-bored interest in food.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 9 July 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
Actually, I can see a lot of overlap between the Larson and Herzog view of nature, and Larson is really at his best when he's capturing that sort of mundane, blank-stared cruelty of life.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Thursday, 9 July 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-far-side-returns-to-a-weird-world
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:12 (three years ago) link
Its creator, Gary Larson (no relation!), retired in 1995, after having been syndicated in more than nineteen hundred newspapers and selling more than forty million books. Then he disappeared almost entirely, like a funny-pages Salinger or Pynchon, busying himself with jazz guitar and presumably enjoying life.
Or, I dunno, maybe like a certain noted contemporary who just about the same thing at the same time?
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:20 (three years ago) link
Jazz guitar? Uhh
― calstars, Saturday, 25 July 2020 19:23 (three years ago) link
After he retired, Larson studied guitar with Jim Hall.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:03 (three years ago) link
Who?
― calstars, Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:06 (three years ago) link
Like Bill Watterson, if Bill Watterson had been an NYT-respected literary author, and had worked & retired decades earlier.
― Steppin' RZA (sic), Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
https://youtu.be/ZIq5w-NogWAxp to calstars
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
HumbledThanks
― calstars, Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:53 (three years ago) link
🔥🔥🔥
https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/155/frank-dale
― lukas, Friday, 30 April 2021 00:25 (three years ago) link
I like the parthenogenesis one
How often does the “new stuff” come out?
― calstars, Friday, 30 April 2021 01:07 (three years ago) link
What percentage of Far Side cartoons do you think involve death or imminent death? Twenty percent?
― Hideous Lump, Friday, 30 April 2021 04:46 (three years ago) link
Are some of these remakes of classic strips? The one of the bears in the cave telling ghost stories looks awfully familiar. Maybe just a common Larson trope though.
Love Frank & Dale.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Monday, 3 May 2021 14:35 (three years ago) link
Is the joke in the Frank & Dale one just that chicken can't fly, or am I missing some deeper meaning?
― Tuomas, Tuesday, 4 May 2021 07:17 (three years ago) link