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Craig Markley
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I was just thinking of bicycles and their invention. Before I could get any further into that subject, this thought came up: "When did the first dog decide to chase a bicycle wheel?" The next thought was, "Are other animals affected by things such as this?"
Gary Larson could bring this idea to life. I miss the Far Side.
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John Mietus
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I'd prefer to see Charles Addams, Gahan Wilson, B. Kliban or S. Gross do it,
seeing as how Larson basically ripped them all off.
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John Byrne
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Whenever Larson's name comes up, I also feel
compelled to point people toward Kliban, who was
so clearly Larson's chief inspiration, and about a
thousand times stranger!
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Roger A Ott II
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Still doesn't diminish the fact that Far Side desk calendars always get a chuckle out of me.
I, too, miss the Far Side. Never heard of any of those other guys.
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Craig Markley
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Kliban is great. Unfortunately, I think he's more known for his cat pictures than anything else.
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Stan Lomisceau
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i dont know about the far side so much.
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Andrew Hess
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I'm right in the middle of the first volume of the ultimate Far Side
collection. It was so fun reading those daily.
JMietus - I don't think Larson so much ripped off those wonderful artists
sited, but tapped in to the same mental place. "Inspired by," as JB sez,
would be closer.
And I think the fact that he wasn't quite as bizarre as those others made
him palatable to the general American public.
Tho, in this Ultimate collection they print a number of letters from
readers who are quite disgusted with Larson. "How can someone think
putting animals in impending peril is so funny?" and the like.
And when was the last time that a comic strip made people write in to the
paper's editors to get them to pull comics because they couldn't
understand them?
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Gerry Turnbull
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one of my favourites
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Brian Hunt
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Kliban had one strange since of humor.
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Kevin Hagerman
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Cow Tools would be an awesome name for a band.
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John Byrne
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One of my favorite Kliban cartoons features a group of almost recognizable costumed heroes and heroines (super and otherwise), sitting around an apartment watching TV and playing cards and otherwise looking bored, as a Zorro-like character at center stage suddenly says "I know! Let's strike terror into the hearts of evildoers!"Another featured a decidedly butch looking Wonder Woman-like figure flying away from a burning building with a negligee clad young woman in her arms. The not-exactly-WW is saying "Rescued? What makes you think you're being rescued?"
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John Mietus
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Roger A Ott II wrote:
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You've heard of Charles Addams, Roger. The Addams Family? And I
guarantee you that you've seen Gahan Wilson's stuff, even if you don't
know the name -- he's done cartoons for Playboy, National Lampoon, the
New Yorker... all the magazines that pay big money for single panel full
page color cartoons.
Andrew, I just got so frustrated by people heaping all this praise on
Larson when he was so obviously (to me) leaching from the vein of those
cartoonists I mentioned without giving them a lick of credit and with
scarcely the artistic skill of even Kliban. Call me a snob, but aside from a
few Far Side panels, I pretty much don't care for the guy.
My favorite (and utterly apocryphal) story about Charles Addams was the
old chestnut that his editor always knew when to have the psychiatrists
come and take him away because he would turn in the same cartoon -- a
man looking through the window of a maternity ward, with the nurse
holding up a baby, and the caption reading "No need to wrap it, I'll eat it
here." Never happened, no such cartoon exists by Addams, nor was he (to
my knowledge) ever hospitalized for mental illness -- but the story is
great.
Oh, and JB? My favorite Kliban is "Aardvark, percolator, five cent cigar,
rhinestones, soup bones, midgets in a jar." That and "By the time I had
gotten home, Grandmother had eaten most of the porcupines."
"Ted, a handsome person, had little trouble with the pencils."
Edited by John Mietus on 27 November 2006 at 5:09pm
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