Gary Larson Cartoons

mr_edge_to_you · 19-12-2019 9:41pm

This is my favourite

strandroad · 19-12-2019 9:41pm

Zaph wrote: »

It took me a long time to figure that one out and that's because I originally thought it was a dinosaur.

Porklife · 19-12-2019 11:24pm

WrenBoy wrote: »

Its kind of like what would these people know about the blues ? Blues is all about hardship and how tough you have it. Its like sweet little female creche teachers belting out gangsters paradise or something.
Never sounds funny when its explained, sorry :pac::pac:

Perfect explanation:)

Dr Strange · 19-12-2019 11:26pm

Raconteuse wrote: »

Fave is probably the monster under the bed terrified in case there is a child on top of the bed.

Or the invention of the monster snorkel which lets you breathe safely under the duvet without exposing any part of yourself.

Ipso · 19-12-2019 11:31pm

Nodster · 19-12-2019 11:35pm

Loved the one of the two apes dancing in the middle of the jungle, one says to the other "Oh I thought you asked if I'd like a mango"

Raconteuse · 19-12-2019 11:54pm

Another one I love is: the author of Moby Dick struggling in candlelight to write the opening of his mastepiece, and surrounded with all these balled up pieces of paper saying "Call me Larry", "Call me Mike", "Call me Warren" etc.

Sadb · 20-12-2019 12:33am

I love Gary Larson. I have all the books upstairs, I must dig them out.
Two of my fave

JupiterKid · 20-12-2019 2:01am

Wow! I had an inkling a thread on the hilarious cartoons of Gary Larson would be popular on AH, but not to this extent!

I’m going to have to just up my game on devising an even more popular thread for the new decade....:pac:

bodhrandude · 20-12-2019 2:13am

Zaph · 20-12-2019 2:14am

JupiterKid wrote: »

Wow! I had an inkling a thread on the hilarious cartoons of Gary Larson would be popular on AH, but not to this extent!

I’m going to have to just up my game on devising an even more popular thread for the new decade....:pac:

In 2021? :pac:

Philipx · 20-12-2019 8:52am

mfceiling · 20-12-2019 3:27pm

Apologies...I thought it was a deer pointing. It's a bear!!

odyssey06 · 20-12-2019 3:34pm

I miss my Farside fix, I used to get the day-by-day desk calendars but think I saw all the cartoons twice.

Switched to The New Yorker, occasional cartoons have a Farside vibe e.g.

Sleepy · 20-12-2019 3:48pm

Why'd he quit doing them?

loyatemu · 20-12-2019 4:15pm

Sleepy wrote: »

Why'd he quit doing them?

the pressure of coming up with something new every single day was too much and he was afraid the quality was dropping.

razorblunt · 20-12-2019 5:19pm

jimgoose wrote: »

Oh yeah, Larson is magic, one of the greatest ever. These days I also like Stephan Pastis' "Pearls Before Swine" and Nathan Pyle's "Strange Planet".

You say you like Larson.

But yet.

Del.Monte · 20-12-2019 7:55pm

I acquired a taste for Gary Larson from my ex.wife and still have loads of books, calendars etc. that I never get tired of. I always find something new in them. Here's a couple from the 2005 calendar. Great thread!!

bodhrandude · 21-12-2019 1:33am

murpho999 · 21-12-2019 2:06am

Love his stuff and have plenty of his books and they stil make me laugh.

Here's a couple I like.

boombang · 21-12-2019 11:49am

This one was new to me.

BOSTIK · 23-12-2019 11:08am

This is one of my favourites

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r3nu4l · 23-12-2019 11:33am

I always loved his stuff. Have so many of his books, my favorite being the pre-history of the far side where he talks about failed concepts, unpublished cartoons and controversies as well as scientific errors he made in some cartoons (e.g. play bears and penguins together in the same panel).

Patser · 23-12-2019 11:45am

My favourite

andekwarhola · 23-12-2019 1:08pm

There was one that always made me laugh: like a sex phone line for dogs and it was a cat giving a graphic description along the lines of being stuck with a broken leg in broad daylight and nowhere to run.

There is such a brilliantly surreal innocence to a lot of the gags.