New Far Side cartoons from Gary Larson

[muriel_volestrangler]

He started the website showing some oldies each day a few months ago; now he's given us some genuine new ones. 3 up today - explanation of what's changed for him here: https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff - and the link to the new ones.

[CatLady78]

1. Love Far Side

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[Ferryboat]

2. The world is a better place

With new farside cartoons.

[matt819]

3. He definitely still has it

Not surprising. And glad he's back.

My two favorites:

Nature abhors a vacuum.

What your cat hears: Blah, Blah, Blah, Ginger, Blah, Blah, Blah.

[localroger]

4. Actually, that's what dogs hear

It was a pair of strips. In the dog one the dog hears nothing but its name. In the cat one the cat hears "blah" for its name too.

[Nevilledog]

5. Actually have the dog one on a coffee cup.

[soldierant]

13. Any cat who has ever owned me

would hear "food." I would expect dogs to hear "food" and "walk" at a minimum, besides their names. But og course, of none of those things were involved - yeah.

[roamer65]

6. Probe and release.

[Duppers]

10. That one "killed" me.

https://www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/118/probe-release

[A HERETIC I AM]

7. He is a comic genius.

Two of my all time favorites;

[NNadir]

9. Kliban was more original and more inspired.

I always thought of Larson as a Kliban wannabe.

[soldierant]

14. For me, Kliban pushed originality

all the way to irrelevance. If that makes me lowbrow, so be it.

[NNadir]

19. It makes you lowbrow, I guess, but it's OK. There are a great many places...

...where I am lowbrow myself.

[Captain Stern]

17. I think Kliban was more original also, perhaps more inspired too.

However, I think Larson's stuff is funnier.

[NNadir]

18. Well, it's a matter of taste. I didn't find Larson all that amusing.

That's possibly because he struck me as entirely derivative.

I can't think of a single Far Side that sticks in my memory, whereas many Klibans stick in my mind, notably "Philospher's Looting a Small Town," and "Due to a convergence of forces beyond his comprehension, Salavator Quanucci was squirted out of the universe, like a watermelon seed and never seen again."

This, is, of course, what happened to Kliban himself, and whenever I think what I want on the occassion of my death, I want my sons to say that about me, that I was spit out of the universe like a watermelon seed.

If there was ever a time for "Dirty Fat Person Sits on the President's Face," it would be now.

I miss Kliban more than ever.

I noticed when Kliban was spit out of the universe.

When Bill Watterson stopped sharing his creations, I noticed.

Larson left and I didn't notice.

[JudyM]

21. I love Kliban's work

Wish I could find my favorite Kliban online to post here, always made me laugh: Not being clever, Floyd had trouble with Claire’s harness.

And this was an instant classic:

[NNadir]

22. More than a coincidence?

[JudyM]

23. .

[drmeow]

20. Larson does name Kliban as one of his inspirations nt

[lagomorph777]

11. Yay!

[Trumpocalypse]

12. Norm & Cliff explain The Far Side to Woody

[phylny]

15. Is there a way to subscribe to get a notice when he adds new content?

I looked but didn’t see anything.

[lark]

16. Be still my beating heart! This makes me so happy.

I love Gary Larson and Far Side and so nice to see new comics from him. I like the digital efforts.