Throughout the 1980s and '90s, The Far Side provided laughs to a wide audience with its surrealist humor and pointed commentary on human behavior. Creator Gary Larson used a wide array of ...

Surrealism is courage ... life bear witness to the violence and turmoil of the 20th century, and yet carry humor, amazement, modesty, optimism. He told of the French German Dadaist Hans Arp ...

But from Breton to the blues, Surrealism has rarely been a somber business, often centering humor and the free play of desire. Joans’s poetry and collages, too, are often blisteringly funny and ...