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

Of course, this being The Far Side, all the names are also puns on what the devices were used for. While Larson's image of a ...

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 ...

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 ...

E-mail Bonnie. Everyone in the US who read the newspaper funny pages from 1980-1995 will likely remember the witty, single-panel comic The Far Side by Gary Larson. Well, good news. According to ...

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 ...

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 ...

The caption was funny enough, a turn on the ”old dog ... completely transfixed by the dog’s high-wire act. Though ”The Far Side” is known for its broad visual humor, I have always thought ...

leading fans to suspect that the artist may be planning a return to the funny pages — or at least the internet. Without actually saying that The Far Side is coming back, the site teases a “new ...