The Complete Far Side

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While I consumed it in a way far faster than nature and Gary Larson intended, The Complete Far Side - Book One was an amusing read. Bring on the next four year chunk! Four out of five cows. Music has also been an important part of Larson’s life. He started playing the guitar at an early age, moved to the banjo for a few years, and then ultimately returned to the guitar. Since retiring from daily newspaper syndication, Larson has focused his creative efforts on the guitar and his passion for jazz.

While its single panel format and light-hearted depiction of awkward social situations and shared pain bore some resemblance to earlier comics like Ziggy and Larson’s own Nature’s Way, The Far Side was an anthropomorphic animal all its own, and dominated the public’s consciousness for the decade and a half that it was being produced. Creator Gary Larson offers a rare glimpse into the mind of The Far Side®in quirky and thoughtful introductions to each of the 14 chapters. Complaint letters, fan letters, and queries from puzzled readers appear alongside some of the more provocative or elusive panels. Actor, author,and comedian Steve Martin offers his pithy thoughts in a foreword, and Garyurn:lcp:completefarside0001lars:epub:f3048e85-6ee7-4ff3-8b68-cc645fe33e25 Foldoutcount 0 Grant_report Arcadia #4117 Identifier completefarside0001lars Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t25b98636 Invoice 1853 Isbn 0740721135

I had this on my wishlist forever, waiting for it to fall into my cheapness zone. Fortunately, my wife bought it for me sometime after the collapse of society. It may have been an effort to stave off cabin fever for another week or two or perhaps a Father's Day gift. But these are minor quibbles. If you're at all a fan of "The Far Side", and have the money and the room, you'll want these books. They're great for endless hours of entertainment. Its unpretentious, surrealistic humor had broad appeal and could be enjoyed on multiple levels. At times, it was silly and sweet and designed simply to spread smiles. The Complete Far Side - Book Three collects the Far Side strips from July 1988 to the end in December 1994.

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A few examples of his comic panels would be self-explanatory, as in the old adage that a picture paints a thousand words, but the artist has kindly requested that his art should not be made freely available on the interwebs. Actually, this makes my task easier, because I would find it impossible to narrow down my favorites to the limited space granted by Goodreads.

In addition, Larson used his talking nature and human/animal relationship reversals to highlight those little moments in life that everyone could relate to... I can’t tell you how many hours I spent replenishing my stores of good will perusing Larson’s work. So, after re-visiting his singular work in this massive, uber collection of his complete catalog, I thought I would share the love and try to bring a few moments of bright into your Sunday (and whatever additional days I eventually float this review). The humor skews a little darker than the first volume so it was right up my alley. The angry letters to Far Side printed in this collection show that a lot of people didn't have much of a sense of humor even in the pre-Internet days. I don't really know what else to say. It's a collection of funny newspaper strips.During its 14-year run, The Far Side was syndicated internationally to over 1,900 daily newspapers. It spawned 22 books and has been translated into a total of 17 different languages. Interesting note: the two-volume microprint dictionary comes in its own display case, complete with magnifying glass, and turns out to be EXACTLY the same height and depth as "The Complete Far Side". So they look really nice together. And I still had to figure out where to put them. They won't fit on any of my bookshelves. They're much too big for the coffee table. Under my bed? The monsters would eat them, and the crunching would keep me awake. Finally I hit upon the ideal solution: I slung them onto my dresser, between my "Compact Oxford Dictionary" and the filing cabinet. During its 14-year run, The Far Side ® was syndicated internationally to over 1,900 daily newspapers. It spawned 23 books and has been translated into 17 different languages.

Larson’s genius knew no sacred cows, and he probed and needled at just about everything. Whether providing insight into the meaning of life, by depicting God as an over adventuress chef... and when it burst on the scene like a talking, cow-shaped comet in 1980, the strip was like nothing the newspaper funnies had ever seen. Gary Larson was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. His parents were Vern, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. He attended Curtis High School before attending Washington State University and graduated in 1972 with a degree in communications. In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an archaeologist. Anyway, The Far Side is one of those legendary comic strips. I was a little young for the humor during its initial run so I had an ambition to reread it. I'm sure Gary Larson never intended for anyone to read four and a half years of his strip in less than 24 hours but this was a great read.Lccn 2003045301 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.11 Ocr_module_version 0.0.14 Old_pallet IA18243 Openlibrary_edition And sometimes, he was just a lunatic jokester casting a bizarre-filtered folk wisdom or pop philosophy in a comedic, fell good light...