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Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now. The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html And the reversal: https://www.thefa…
If I had to pick a favorite, it'd be all of them. I only wish I had a thagomizer for the routine problems of work and day-to-day living.
Didn't "thagomizer" work its way into paleontologists' slang, since they really didn't have a word for it?
Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now. The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html And the reversal: https://www.thefa…
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I've been reading the entire The Far Side (from the massive two book set) with my 10 y/o daughter. It's interesting to see how apparently the culture of the time of Gary Larson's upbringing imprinted itself on the strips. Reading 10 or so strips at a sitting makes it very apparent (along with making apparent Larson's go-to characters and tropes). My daughter commented on there being few depictions of female scientist…
For a more obvious example, see Dilbert. Leaving aside all the other baggage, with few exceptions, it's really more about 1990s PacBell cubicle life than anything about the current era, certain common stereotypes notwithstanding.
Is there a name for a cartooning style where the creatures seem to always be drawn as wide as possible? I remember a few animators for Sesame Street who did the same thing. It was always striking. Larson seems to also give them tiny heads for maximum ridiculousness. :) It make me think of that Aubrey Beardsley illustration of Ali Baba where he's got the curved lines running off the page suggesting these gi-normous fl…
I have several well-worn Far Side collections, including one with a lovely introduction by Jane Goodall, which has a funny story behind it [1] Linking my favorite below [2] > Donning his new canine decoder, Professor Schwarzman becomes the first human being on Earth to hear what barking dogs are actually saying. [1] http://www.hopkinsandcompany.com/Books/The%20Complete%20Far%... [2] https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FNZar0…
Worth noting is Gary Larson's original response to the WWW was an open letter asking fans not to post his cartoons online. Akin to the Bill Gates letter on copying software, but, perhaps, more understandable. This website is a reversal of that original position. He was thoughtful then, and is thoughtful now. The original letter: https://www.portmann.com/farside/index.html?home.html And the reversal: https://www.thefa…
Is there a name for a cartooning style where the creatures seem to always be drawn as wide as possible? I remember a few animators for Sesame Street who did the same thing. It was always striking. Larson seems to also give them tiny heads for maximum ridiculousness. :) It make me think of that Aubrey Beardsley illustration of Ali Baba where he's got the curved lines running off the page suggesting these gi-normous fl…
