The Far Side Gallery
by Gary Larson
The Far Side Gallery (1), The Far Side (Collections and Selections — 1-3)
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A collection of "Far Side" cartoons featuring a variety of animals and people.Tags
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bluepiano Baxter has more in common with Edward Gorey, but his single-panel collections aren't terribly distant from Gary Larsen's.
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As always a fantastic selection of Far Side. Far Side, Calvin and Hobbes, Peanuts, Fox Trot, and Pearls Before Swine, are the top notch comics, and no matter my age, have always made me laugh. Shame how newspaper comics are a dying breed and that my daughter's generation and their children won't really get to appreciate it.
The Far Side is either a strip you get or one you don't. Suffice it to say that I love Gary Larson's odd way of viewing the world, and while a small number of strips don't land for me, the overwhelming majority do.
Impromptu decision to showcase Far Side comics to R & W, so borrowed three collections from my local: this, Gallery 2, and Chickens Are Restless. Naturally there were many, many panels I took pains to point out; and of course others I remembered but didn't find in any of these. Didn't win any converts but thoroughly enjoyed the attempt.
Oh, books of my past.
I've had [b:The Far Side Gallery|77281|The Far Side Gallery|Gary Larson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347379733s/77281.jpg|105673] books for as long as I can remember. I grew up reading these comics and giggling to myself. Every time I come back to them I understand some of the more 'adult' and scientific jokes and puns and the comics only get more enjoyable. This collection of five books is fantastic, and brings together all (?) or at least a significant amount of [a:Gary Larson|19928|Gary Larson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1213672623p2/19928.jpg]'s work.
I've had [b:The Far Side Gallery|77281|The Far Side Gallery|Gary Larson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1347379733s/77281.jpg|105673] books for as long as I can remember. I grew up reading these comics and giggling to myself. Every time I come back to them I understand some of the more 'adult' and scientific jokes and puns and the comics only get more enjoyable. This collection of five books is fantastic, and brings together all (?) or at least a significant amount of [a:Gary Larson|19928|Gary Larson|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1213672623p2/19928.jpg]'s work.
A collection of Far Side comics from 1980-1984.
5/4 (One of my favorites).
Some of them are dumb jokes, some of them are just weird pictures. (I like dumb jokes and weird pictures.) And some of them are hilarious.
5/4 (One of my favorites).
Some of them are dumb jokes, some of them are just weird pictures. (I like dumb jokes and weird pictures.) And some of them are hilarious.
As always, Gary Larson delivers. The Far Side Gallery is funny, provocative, and insightful, like all of Larson's books. Unfortunately, as with most comics strips, it's either all or nothing, love it or hate it. If you like Larson, then you are guaranteed to love this book. If you don't care for Larson...why are you here?
This is a definite classic. My father had this when I was a kid and I read it several times through my childhood, it's a pretty great collection of comic strips.
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Gary Larson was born on August 14, 1950 in Tacoma, Washington. Larson is the genius behind The Far Side, the popular cartoon panel that has been named the Best Syndicated Panel in both 1985 and 1987 and was awarded the Max & Moritz Prize for Best International Comic StripPanel by the International Comic Salon. He is has also received the Reuben show more Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonist Society in both 1991 and 1994. Larson has published 20 other Far Side books as well as There's a Hair in My Dirt: A Worm's Story, a non-Far Side related story. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title
- The Far Side Gallery
- Original publication date
- 1984
- People/Characters
- Three Blind Mice; The Ugly Duckling; Dorothy Gale; Scarecrow [Oz]; Tin Woodman; Santa Claus (show all 43); Gill-man; Tarzan; Smokey Bear; Humpty Dumpty; Abraham Lincoln; Three Little Pigs; Noah; Quasimodo; Frankenstein's Monster; Victor Frankenstein; Bride of Frankenstein; Superman; Dracula; Death; Big Bad Wolf; Old Woman Who Lived in a Shoe; Mr. Potato Head; Mrs. Potato Head; Rapunzel; Robin Hood; Meriwether Lewis; William Clark; Moby Dick; Captain Ahab; Lois Lane; Dorian Gray; Marion Crane; Igor; Buffalo Bill Cody; Satan; Grizzly Adams; Captain Hook; Confucius; Nanook; Saint George; Peter Pan; Pied Piper of Hamelin
- Dedication
- For my parents
- First words
- This is my brother's fault. (Introduction)
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)"Okay Billy... tide's coming in now... dig me out, Billy... Billy, I don't want to get angry."
- Original language
- English
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- Graphic Novels & Comics
- DDC/MDS
- 741.5973 — Arts & recreation Drawing & decorative arts Drawing and drawings Comic books, graphic novels, fotonovelas, cartoons, caricatures, comic strips History, geographic treatment, biography North American United States (General)
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- NC1429 .L32 .A4 — Fine Arts Drawing. Design. Illustration Drawing. Design. Illustration Pictorial humor, caricature, etc.
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