The Far Side skewered a lot of different things and these 10 strips showed how it applied its offbeat humor to a handful of ...

Gary Larson's The Far Side and Laurel and Hardy's comedy share an affinity for ambitious slapstick humor and impossible ...

For 15 years, "The Far Side" added a dash of irreverence to the funny pages. Offbeat, macabre, and sometimes controversial, Gary Larson’s trailblazing cartoon was a gigantic success that ran in ...

It’s updated but still familiar. Still funny too!” Cartoonist Gary Larson, of Seattle, poses beside some of his “The Far Side” work in 1985.AP Indeed, while mirroring the tone of the ...

Then he disappeared almost entirely, like a funny-pages Salinger or Pynchon, busying himself with jazz guitar and presumably enjoying life. Larson didn’t publish another original “Far Side ...

Larson is doing this, too. Comic strips were, back in the day, a funny business, and it’s hard to overstate how wildly popular "The Far Side" and its syndicated-in-newspapers peers were at the ...

Anyone who read the newspaper funny pages from 1980-1995 will likely remember Larson's witty, single-panel Far Side comic. Larson's signature humor depicts the ludicrous sides of humanity ...