I love Gary Larson’s The Far Side comics. I think I have every anthology and have many, unforgettable favourites. Unfortunately, Mr. Lawson doesn’t want his cartoons displayed online so I can’t provide a cartoon here (search for Gary Larson Far Side on Google images and you’ll find lots). His humour is hard to explain. Thinking outside the box, was a phrase probably invented to describe his cartoons of looking at things in a way we never thought of before, from squid playing “tentaclies” under the table at a restaurant, to what a dog really hears when you talk to him, to how we seem to insects, to what that scary thing behind you is. I think his comics sometimes made me cringe as much as they made me laugh, putting people or creatures in the most difficult of circumstances. If you love The Far Side then you can’t get enough of it and some people really love The Far Side, to the point that they would reenact a Far Side cartoon and put the results up on the Flickr Far Side Reenactments group. The rules of the group are clear: no real cartoons since you don’t own the copyright and you must “reenact the cartoons with your own little camera and photoshop fingers”. Like this one I love from The Rocketeer:
Whether you’re a Far Side fan or not, this is worth checking out just to see how creative some people can be.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:16 pm
priceless!