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Continue This article is about comics. For other purposes see Far SideWiener Dog Art, one of the many collections of published in the United States, shows the artist stamping paint-covered dachshunds on canvas. Written (s) Gary LarsonWebsite Status/ScheduleActiveLaunch Date December 31, 1979Syndicate (s) (1980-1985)Universal Press Syndicate (1985-1996)Genre (s)Humor satire, black comedy, avant-garde TheNature's The Way The Far Side is a one-nicated comic, created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features, and then by Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979 to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). His surreal humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, incredible events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical misconceptions, impending strange catastrophes, (often twisted) references to proverbs or the search for meaning in life. Larson's frequent use of animals and nature in the comic is popularly explained by his experience in biology. Ultimately, the Far Side was translated by more than 1,900 daily newspapers, translated into 17 languages and collected in calendars, greeting cards and 23 collections, and reruns are still being conducted in many newspapers. After a 25-year hiatus, in July 2020, Larson began drawing new far side bands offered through the comic's official website. Larson was recognized for his work on the band with the National Society of Cartoonists Newspaper Group Award for 1985 and 1988, and with their Ruben Award for 1990 and 1994. The Far Side won the 2020 Webby People's Voice Award for humor in the Web category. The Far Side (1979) the Far Side was created by Gary Larson, a cartoonist from , . Larson loved to paint as a child, but never thought he would become a cartoonist; thus, he never studied art in school outside of compulsory classes. Larson was inspired to draw comics when he was younger from the Alley Oop band, and later drew inspiration from MAD MAGAZINE and don Martin's work. He also loves comics from Gaan Wilson, B. Kliban and George Booth, where humor was derived more from comic composition than dialogue, which Larson considered something almost organic, that takes place between the humor and the art that conveyed it. In 1976, Larson was working as a cashier at a retail music store when he realized how much he hated his job. Two days after this career crisis, Larson sat down at the kitchen table and drew six . The next day, he showed the cartoons to the editor of the local pacific search magazine. The editor was impressed and paid him $90, so Larson quit his job to start cartooning and created Nature's Way, one panel of comics that served as the basis for The Far Side. Larson Nature Nature editor of the weekly newspaper Summer News Review, which began publishing it on a regular basis. Although Larson was initially thrilled to be published, he was paid only US$3 cartoon. Eventually, he stopped and became an investigator for the local humane society. In 1979, a Seattle Times reporter who met Larson during an investigation into pony abuse showed Nature's Way to his editor. It was revived and began appearing in the Saturday edition of the newspaper. Larson was paid $15 for the cartoon. About a year later, Larson took a leave of absence from his humane community job to go to to encourage his girlfriend. In what he called a bold plan to expand this publishing empire, Larson left the portfolio with his work at the san Francisco Chronicle headquarters. A few days later, Larson was informed that editor Stan Arnold wanted to talk to him. Arnold was impressed with his work and noted that if the Chronicle was interested in Larson's work, it could become syndicated. When Larson returned to Seattle, he received a letter informing him that Nature's Way had been cancelled because it had caused too many complaints; he attributes this to the fact that he ran next to a crossword puzzle aimed at children. Larson believes that if it had happened a week earlier, he wouldn't have gone to San Francisco. The next day, Arnold called Larson and told him that a branch of the Chronicle syndicate had decided to syndicate his work. Branch, Chronicle Features, came up with the name The Far Side; Larson joked the Chronicle could call it revenge zucchini people for everything I cared about. Larson's initial contract for The Far Side called for him to have a cast of recurring characters (like had Charlie Brown) because the Chronicle believed that newspaper comics needed familiar characters to be successful. However, Larson disagreed, feeling that it would limit and reduce the band's humor. In the first month of syndication, Larson made about $100. The contract with the Chronicle lasted four years. After its expiration, Universal Press Syndicate was granted syndication rights. The publication (1979-1995) The Far Side debuted in the Chronicle on January 1, 1980, and a few months later Chronicle Features began offering it to other newspapers. Although by 1982 only four newspapers had had this number, by 1983 the number had increased to eighty and by 1985 to two hundred. Larson originally drew six cartoons a week, which had been sent to newspapers a few weeks earlier. By 1987, he was drawing seven cartoons a week. From October 1988 to January 1990. Larson took a break from The Far Side to travel abroad and study jazz guitar with Jim Hall. When he resumed over The Far Side in 1990, he made an agreement in which he would have to draw only five cartoons a week. [7] [7] The final Far Side comic was launched in newspapers on January 1, 1995. Larson wrote a letter to his followers in October 1994 explaining that he was ending the series because of simple fatigue and avoiding The Far Side getting into the Graveyard of Mediocre Cartoons if he continued. Larson also later stated that he wanted to pursue a career as a jazz guitarist. In his 15 years, Larson has produced a total of 4,337 Far Side cartoons. By the time it was completed, the series had been translated into more than 1,900 works and translated into 17 languages. At the end of 2003, Universal briefly re-syndicated The Far Side for three months to promote the release of The Complete Far Side: 1980-1994, and many newspapers are still publishing reprints. Hiatus (1995-2019) Larson expressed disapproval of the distribution of his cartoons on the Internet and asked that fans not; he wrote in an email that his work was too personal and important for him to have others take control of it. For this reason, the online service Universal GoComics does not offer cartoons Far Side. In at least one case, he sent out a termination letter and refrained from commenting on the comic book aggregation site to play The Far Side online. While the official Far Side website existed, it only offered information related to comics and published books, but did not offer any of the bands. In 2003, Gary Larson drew the cover for the November 17 edition of (Cartoon Issue), a prestigious proposal he said he couldn't refuse. Online revival (2019-present) September 13, 2019, the official Far Side website has been updated with a major redesign, teasing that the new online era of The Far Side will be coming. The full site was launched on December 17, 2019. It has a daily dose of several randomly selected Far Side comics, weekly themed collections, and additional materials including art from Larson's sketches. Larson wrote in an open letter announcing to the site that he hopes the official online presence of The Far Side will encourage the sites currently hosting his comics to take them and direct readers to the official site. Larson said that while he doesn't plan to draw regular Far Side comics, he can include new material every once in a while when updating the site. On July 7, 2020, Larson released new Far Side bands on the site for the first time in 25 years. Unlike his previous work with pen and paper, Larson has since moved on to using a graphics tablet for comics. In an accompanying post, Larson explained that he was disappointed that his pens were clogged with none on the rare occasions he had drawn after retirement (primarily for his annual Christmas card), him to try to work on a digital tablet. The new freedom and opportunities offered by the digital environment, the environment soon he found that he was having fun drawing again. Larson has made it clear that he is not resuming the production of the daily cartoon, but is studying, experimenting and trying things out. The far side's design and themes are primarily spoken through a single, vertical, rectangular panel, sometimes divided into small sections of four, six or eight for storytelling purposes. A signature or dialogue usually appears under the panel as a text type, although speech balls are sometimes used for conversations. Some strips, mostly those published on Sundays, are double-sized, 33 painted, and have handwritten signatures. When Larson drew the panels, they were 6×7.5 inches; he penciled until the image approximated his vision, and then he would ink him out. The signature was written in pencil under a caricature. When Universal received the cartoon, it would have signed the regular font and added copyrights and publication dates. The series is characterized by its unconventional, often surreal, style of humor. Kerry Soper, a professor at Brigham Young University, described it as an anomaly among other newspaper cartoons, while ComicsAlliance wrote that it was surreal, casual, and sometimes very dark. Larson was influenced by his family's painful sense of humor. A particular influence was his older brother Dan, who often played him in pranks that took advantage of his fears. He also drew inspiration from his personal experience, Mad, and his favorite children's book, Mr. Bear Squash-You-All-Flat. Larson tried to mock the human condition, often placing animals in human positions. Fear is also repeated in the lane; The Far Side was released at a time when horror comedy was becoming popular. Recurring themes in The Far Side include people stranded on uninhabited islands, aliens, heaven, hell, cave life and medieval dungeons. Animals, especially cows, are also common. Larson focused on topics he considered taboo because he wanted his cartoons to be personal statements. Larson's editors refused to publish strips they found indecent, offensive or difficult to understand. Examples include cowboys roasting horses over fire because they are hungry enough to eat one and the bird eats omelette babies. As a rule, they also avoided publishing cartoons with scatological humor; Larson recalled that for the first few years, the band was not even allowed to draw a stretch. Larson often disagreed with the decisions of his editors and sometimes successfully received rejected caricatures, though he admits that most of their decisions probably saved his career. Larson also says he never tried to intentionally offend readers. While Larson often used the same stereotypical characters, such as with a hive of hair, he intentionally did not name his characters, nor nor they were the same characters from cartoon to cartoon. He didn't want to have a character-based series as the characters were there to help serve the comic's humor. Famous cartoons Main article: Cow Tools Cow Tools - the name of one cartoon Far Side, first published in 1982. It depicts a cow standing at a table with strange objects, with the signature of the cartoon Cow Tools. Although most of the instruments displayed did not have a visible function, one looked like a saw. Cartoon has become one of the most hated cartoons in the series, with Reddit posters calling it a series of notoriously confusing cartoons. Larson was often asked about the meaning of the cartoon in the media, and he received numerous letters, some angry and wondered where the humor was in the comic. Larson told The Far Side that he had so many emails from the band that he had to issue a press release to explain that there was nothing to explain about the Cow Tools comic. 's one the Far Side shows two grooming them. One finds blond human hair on the other hand and asks: Conducting a little more 'research' with this Jane Goodall tramp? Goodall herself was in Africa at the time, and the thought it was in bad taste, and their lawyers drafted a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate in which they described the cartoon as brutal. They were stymied by Goodall herself when she came back and saw the cartoon, as she claimed she found the cartoon amusing, saying: All of this helps put us, the people, in our place and we desperately need to put in our place. Since then all the profits from the sale of shirts depicting this cartoon goes to the Jane Goodall Institute. Goodall wrote the foreword to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the controversy, and the Institute's letter was included next to a caricature of the full Far Side collection. She praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behavior of humans and animals. In 1982, Larson published a comic book in which a prehistoric lecturer calls the previously unnamed tail spikes of stegosaurus a tagomizer. The location of the thorns did not initially have a clear name, but Larson's neologism was gradually accepted by paleontologists, albeit only in a random context. The full far side and backstory of The Far Side include letters from angry readers next to the comics. The letters were written to newspaper publishers and often required The Far Side to be removed. Despite these protests, The Far Side remained popular and continued to work in many newspapers. Larson often laughs at the controversy, as evidenced by the backstory of The Far Side, in which he writes that people complaining tend to misunderstand Collected Editions Home Series Far Bock Gallery Series Anthology Title Date ISBN Title Date ISBN Date DATE ISBN Far Party September 1982 ISBN 0-8362-1200-2 Far Side Gallery November 19 84 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Long Side Backstory: 1 984 ISBN 0- 8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backs1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side : 1984 ISBN 0-8362-2062-5 Backstory of the Far Side: A 1984 ISBN0 Anniversary Exhibition January 1989 ISBN 0-8362-1851-5 Outside of The Long Time August 1983 ISBN 0-0-0-0 8362-1149-9 Far Side Gallery 2 October 1986 ISBN 0-8362-2085-4 Full Far Away: 1980-1994 August 2003 ISBN 0-7407-2113 -5 In Search of the Far Side August 1984 ISBN 0-8362- 2060-9 Far Side Gallery 3 October 1988 ISBN 0-8362-1831-0 Far Bride Saida April 1985 ISBN 0-0-0 8362-2066-8 Far Side Gallery 0-8362-2066-8 Far Side Gallery 8 October 4, 1993 ISBN 0-8362-1724-1 Far Side Valley August 1985 ISBN 0-8362-2067-6 Far Side Gallery 5 September 199 5 ISBN 0-8362-0425-5 It came from long time August 1986 ISBN 0-8362-2073-0 Far Side Dog April 19 87 ISBN 0-8362-2087-0 Far Side Observer October 1987 ISBN 0-8362-2098-6 Night crash-test dummies July 1988 ISBN 0-8362-2049-8 Reserves April 1988 ISBN 0-8362-2049-8 Reserves April 81989 ISBN 0-8362-1842-6 Viennese Dog Art October 1990 ISBN 0-8362-1865-5 Unnatural Elections November 1991 ISBN 0-8362-1881-7 Cows of our planet Nov. 1992 ISBN 0-8362-1701-2 Chickens Restless November 1993 ISBN 0-8362-1717-17179 Curse of Madame C November 1994 ISBN 0-8362-1763-2 Last chapter and worse October 1996 ISBN 0-8362-2131-1 There are 23 collected editions of the Far Side that combined have sold more than 45 million copies and brought US$70 million in revenue. The books are published by Andrews McMeel Publishing, a branch of Universal. Andrews McMill acquired the rights to publish the collected editions of the series in 1982, when the first book Far Side was published. It was surprisingly successful, which influenced Larson's decision to sign with Universal after his contract with the Chronicle expired. In January 1985, four Far Side books at the time - The Far Side, The Far Side Gallery, Beyond the Far Side and In Search of the Far Side - were simultaneous bestsellers; Jim Davis' Garfield was the only newspaper comic who had previously accomplished this feat. During his 14-month hiatus, Larson produced The Far Side's Backstory: The 10th Anniversary of the Exhibition, an anthology of the Far Side dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the series. It contains comments on individual bands, emails from angry readers, unpublished cartoons, and some of Larson's personal favorite Far Sides. In 2003, Andrews McMill released 20-pound anthology The Complete Far Side: 1990-1994. The full far side contains every Far Side syndicated cartoon and, when it was originally published, is for sale for Larson spent three years working on it; much of the work went to repaint the characters' eyeballs because he was unhappy with how they looked when translated digitally. It sold 350,000 copies and at the time was the most expensive New York Times bestseller. The new, lighter edition of The Complete Far Side was released in 2014. Goods and other media A large number of Far Side goods were produced, ranging from greeting cards, posters, T-shirts and mugs. Over the years, Larson has produced an annual calendar containing the Far Side cartoon for every day of the year. He stopped making them annually in 2002, but created another edition in 2006; all proceeds from this edition went to Save International. In the years when they were available, the Greeting Cards and Far Side calendars sold 110 million and 45 million copies, respectively. Larson said in 1987 that he was personally confused by how much money he made from Far Side merchandise. A television article: Tales From Afar by Gary Larson in 1994, Larson released an animated special film, Tales From the Far Side, in which his artistic style and gags with stripes. He produced the sequel in 1997. Exhibitions In 1987, a special exhibit of 527 black-and-white panels of the Far Side was shown at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. 127 panels were originals, displayed in a rotunda on boards that held 50 panels each. Later, the exhibition became a mobile exhibition, which was shown in San Francisco, Washington, D.C., Orlando, Chicago, Toronto, New York, Denver and Los Angeles. The California Academy of Sciences had the Far Side Gallery, which featured some of Larson's panels. The exhibition included a giant microscope under which visitors could stand, based on one of Larson's cartoons. Looking through the lens of the target showed a giant flashing eyeball. The building was demolished and replaced, and the exhibit is no longer in the new facility. Legacy As described by Sarah Larson for The New Yorker, the initial launch of The Far Side came at a time when newspaper comics tended to be more substantiated, such as Peanuts, Garfield, For Better or For Worse and Doonesbury, and helped introduce more contemporary and surreal humor into comic pages that affect other bands such as and Bloom County and also brought nerd humor to the forefront, reflected in the series like . See also the comics portal Cartoon portal Comedy portal Strigiphilus garylarsoni Thagomizer Bizarro Rhymes with orange links Larson, Gary (1989). The backstory of the Far Side: Exhibition of the 10th Anniversary. Andrews McMill Publishing. ISBN 978-0-8362-1851-0. The full far side. Andrews McMill Archive from the original on April 30, 2008. Received on September 3, 2008. NCS Awards - Newspaper. Ru Newspaper. En National Society of Cartoonists. Received on September 3, 2008. The 1975 Ruben Prize to the present. National Society of Cartoonists. Received on September 3, 2008. - Castrenakes, Jacob (May 20, 2020). Here are all the winners of the 2020 Webby Awards. Face. Received on May 22, 2020. Larson 1989, page 13. b c d e f g Gustines, George Jean (December 17, 2019). 'Far side' is back. Sort of. Gary Larson will explain. . Received on December 17, 2019. a b c d e f McCarthy, Susan (December 21, 1999). Gary Larson. Beauty. Received on September 15, 2018. Larson 1989, page 25. a b Larson 1989, page 28. a b c d e f Bernstein, Fred (February 4, 1985). Loony 'Toonist Gary Larson takes millions for a daily walk on the far side. People. Received on September 16, 2018. Larson 1989, page 36. McCarthy, Susan (December 21, 1999). Gary Larson. Beauty. Larson 1989, page 37. Larson 1989, 37-38. b c d Larson 1989, page 38. - b c Cartoonist Far Side Gary Larson.. Npr. October 17, 2003. Received on September 15, 2018. a b Morrissey, Jake (October 7, 1996). The far side of retirement. Los Angeles Times. Received on September 15, 2018. Larsion 1989, page 139. sfn error: no goal: CITEREFLarsion1989 (help) b Larson 1989, p. 125. b Solomon, Charles (December 2, 2014). 20 years later, the Far Side is still far away, and the new collection is easier!. SCPR. Received on September 16, 2018. Karen Schmidt (October 4, 1994). The cartoonist quit to paint the Far Side. Hartford Courant. Received on July 26, 2020. b Cook, Rebecca (November 30, 2003). Gary Larson returns to the far side. Lawrence Journal-World. Received on September 16, 2018. a b c d e f Collins, Joseph (August 20, 2016). Gary Larson is a compassionate cartoonist. Endless fire. Received on September 21, 2018. Larson, Gary. Gary Larson Cartoon of the Week. portmann.com. received on September 19, 2018. Joseph Hughes (April 23, 2013). The new app makes Calvin and Hobbs, Peanuts, and more classic bands available for free. Comics Alliance. Received on September 21, 2018. b Gustines, George Jean (September 16, 2019). The far side teases his return. The New York Times. Received on December 17, 2019. The cover of The New Yorker on November 17, 2003. A New Yorker. November 17, 2003. Received on July 26, 2020. Chef, Rebecca (November 30, 2003). Gary Larson returns to the far side. The Associated Press. Received on July 26, 2020 - through The Lawrence Journal-World. Burton, Bonnie (September 16, 2019). The far side can come back from extinction, and time is so right. Cnet. Received on September 21, 2019. Sailor, Craig (December 18, 2019). Gary Larson went from Tacoma to the Far Side. Now he's back, but in a new format. News Tribune. Received on December 18, 2019. Joel, William (July 8, 2020). The far side is back after 25 years Digital. Face. Received on July 8, 2020. Larson, Gary. New work by Gary Larson. The far side. Received on July 7, 2020. Larson 1989, page 146. Larson 1989, page 239. Mann, court (September 20, 2018). Far Side was a strange comic. This BSU professor helped us translate it. Deseret News. Received on September 21, 2018. a b Sims, Chris (August 14, 2015). Strange comics and no less strange legacy of the Far Side and Gary Larson. ComicsAlliance. Received on September 21, 2018. a b c d e Weise, Elizabeth (November 22, 2006). Larson turns to the wild side. USA today. Received on September 21, 2018. Magician (November 12, 2007). 50 reasons to sign up for mental_floss (#45, Gary Larson). Mental floss. Larson 1989, 43-97. a b c d e f Sherr, Linda; Larson, Gary (January 8, 1987). Interview with Gary Larson on 20/20 (Interview). American Broadcaster. Noel Carroll (spring 1999). Horror and humor. In the journal aesthetics and artistic criticism: aesthetics and popular culture. 57 (2): 145. Larson 1989, page 172- 183. Staley, Willie (July 15, 2012). Lady Mondegrin and the miracle of the unheard song Of Songs. The New York Times. Received on December 17, 2019. B Larson, Gary. The backstory of the Far Side: an exhibition dedicated to the 10th anniversary. Kansas City, MO: Andrew and McNeil, 1989. ISBN 0-8362-1851-5. Chris Sims (August 14, 2015). The strange legacy of Gary Larson's Long Side. ComicsAlliance. Received on August 20, 2016. a b Larson, Sarah (July 25, 2020). The far side returns to a strange world. A New Yorker. Received on July 26, 2020. Larson, Gary. Gallery Far Side 5. Kansas City, MO: Andrew and McNeil, 1995. (ISBN 0-8362-0425-5). Chris Sims (August 14, 2015). Strange comics and no less strange legacy of the Far Side and Gary Larson. Comics Alliance. Received on December 17, 2019. Black, Riley (March 30, 2011). Watch out for this Tagominuser!. Smithsonian.com. received on May 28, 2019. Stegosaurus is changing. Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, Department of Paleobiology. Archive from the original on December 14, 2004. Received on March 3, 2007. Larson, Gary. The backstory of the Far Side and Larson 1989. Joel Stein (September 29, 2003). life beyond the far side. It's time. Received on September 21, 2018. Angie, Natalie (April 28, 1998). FAN SCIENCE: Gary Larson; A biology lover returns to his easel. The New York Times. Received on September 21, 2018. David O'Reilly (April 16, 1987). The far side of the Smithsonian through the lens of Gary Larson, the world's naturally Wacky Place, so the Temple of Natural History is a suitable place to show his cartoons. Customer. Received on March 12, 2014. California Academy of Sciences - Academy of Tours - Natural History Museum. California Academy of Sciences. Archive from the original on October 2, 2013. March 12, 2014. Gary Larson's external links to The Far Side official website are sourced from far side comics. far side comics best. far side comic school for the gifted. far side comics cows. far side comic push pull door. far side comics dogs. far side comic mosquito. far side comic my brain is full

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