Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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Caption:
“Mr. Cummings? This is Frank Dunham in Production. … We’ve got some problems, Mr. Cummings. Machine No. 5 has jammed, several of the larger spools have gone off track, the generator’s blown, and, well, everything seems to be you-know-what.”
Alt text:
CUMMINGS HAYWIRE & SUPPLIES / LOAD AND UNLOAD
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When this strip originally ran a number of papers cropped the top of the cartoon rendering it somewhat incomprehensible. Of course that wasn't unusual for The Far Side...
Here's Larson talking about that:
Transcript:
In my hometown, The Far Side is carried by the Seattle Times, which "crops" the cartoon so that it fits a little better on their comic page.
On the day this cartoon was published, friends started calling me for an explanation as to its meaning. I hadn't seen the cartoon myself (other than when I had drawn and submitted it weeks before) and the conversations sort of went in circles before I got a few clues that something was amiss
I opened the newspaper to the comic section and discovered that someone, in order to compress the cartoon's size, had chopped off a rather vital part of the humor.
The newspaper ran a correction the following day but, all in all, it's sort of nice for a change when no one understands one of my cartoons but it's not my fault.