The Far Side: Classic or D.. well, no, it's just Classic really

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-far-side-returns-to-a-weird-world

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?

Jazz guitar? Uhh

After he retired, Larson studied guitar with Jim Hall.

Who?

Like Bill Watterson, if Bill Watterson had been an NYT-respected literary author, and had worked & retired decades earlier.

https://youtu.be/ZIq5w-NogWA

xp to calstars

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Thanks

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https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/155/frank-dale

I like the parthenogenesis one

How often does the “new stuff” come out?

What percentage of Far Side cartoons do you think involve death or imminent death? Twenty percent?

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.

Is the joke in the Frank & Dale one just that chicken can't fly, or am I missing some deeper meaning?