The Complete Far Side

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The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson

June 18, 2020 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

There’s so much wonderful humor and insightfulness and pop culture awareness in these cartoons, and looking back through them, I really just how much The Far Side is one of my humor and culture touchstones. There were plenty of brand new cartoons here that I either never read before or am reading for the first time in 30 years. But then there will a whole section where I recall in detail not only reading before but the contexts in which I read these as a […]

Over the edge for yonks (in the best possible way)

The Complete Far Side by Gary Larson

August 23, 2019 by Wanderlustful Leave a Comment

I’m about to date myself with some very specific references: when I was a kid, my parents clipped their favourite Far Side cartoons out of the Sunday newspaper and scotch-taped them to the wall next to the rotary phone. Because my Dad is a farmer of mostly cattle, he shared Gary Larson’s love of all things bovine, so there was no shortage of Far Sides to ponder while tethered to the phone line. I recently happened on the complete three volume Far Side set in […]

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