An early version of this comic:
Transcript:
Garfield: This is the life… I ain't never getting out of bed again
Garfield: I'm hungry
Trivia:
Recycled for the July 17th, 1978 strip in the syndicated version:
Confused about what this strip is? See the first post here
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I will not act primitive in class. I will not act primitive in class. I will not act primitive in class. I will not act primi
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Date rejection lines
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BAD / Oh, I’m sorry, Bob, but I have to wash my hair tonight. / WORSE / Oh, I’m sorry, Ted, but tonight I have to write to my favorite detergent company and tell them how much I like their product.
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I am six and what is this
Author comment:
There are new Extra Ordinary Christmas cards in the store! I know it’s still ages until Christmas but postage gets hectic in November so you should order yours soon. Go on.
Transcript:
Jon: You look guilty about something, Garfield. Did you eat my pie?
Garfield: Your pepper steak.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/nuke
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Discovering this etymology wasn't just mind-blowing, it was a nucular bomb of revelation.
Bonus panel
http://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sheep-2
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I believe we've been breeding each other for aww, but so far it hasn't been very successful.
Bonus panel
Transcript:
Patty chases Charlie Brown down the lane by the gate, as he rides his tricycle. She calls, "Hey, Charlie Brown!"
She catches up to him and says,"Will you let me ride your tricycle?" He replies,"Well, I don't know...."
She grabs the handles, swings her hand, and exclaims,"Let me ride it, or I'll swat your head off!"
He watches her ride off into the distance. He asks, "Who can resist the plea of a woman?"
Original comic:
Great for kids or when you're drunk:
For accessibility, and to make it easy to find later. The original page has the caption as regular text and I add it to the image, so it's easy to include it
Neat, that page references this comic:
He was featured in the syndicated comic strip The Far Side, which showed him as a clumsy person who spilled things in various stages of his life; as a baby (his cup), teenager (pen ink in his shirt pocket), and ultimately as an adult, driving into a water tower.
For better or worse, PBF tends towards subtle humor that makes you look back and forth at the panels a few times
This is one of the weirder ones, since it was the holidays at the time:
Epilogue:
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The err herr herrr baton is passed
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Self Pity Date
An early version of this comic, from Gary Larson's pre-The Far Side strip called Nature's Way:
John Brown was a famous abolitionist. He was executed, and there was a question of what do with with his remains. "John Brown's body" then became kind of a meme and was turned into a song:
As an aside, interesting note in the Wikipedia article about him:
Brown was the leading exponent of violence in the American abolitionist movement, believing it was necessary to end slavery after decades of peaceful efforts had failed.
Some background on this comic:
Transcript:
Because The Far Side is a vertical, single-panel cartoon, I've rarely had the luxury of being able to draw long things (like whales, snakes, ships, etc.) in an accommodating shape. In general, the perspective has to be from front to rear, as opposed to side to side. (Sunday cartoons, which I started not long ago, and modified dailies are the only exceptions.)
In cartoon strips, you frequently see the latter approach—because the strip lends itself well to horizontal images. In The Far Side, as the examples on this page indicate, ships come at you head on, classrooms are view from either the front of the back, and riding in the car is often seen from the perspective of the backseat looking forward or from the windshield looking inward. I just can't draw a '59 Cadillac in profile.
I'm saying this because I drew The Far Side for years without truly being cognizant of why I approached it this way. I was just trying to figure out ways to cram things into a little rectangle. It was a friend of mine (also a cartoonist) who pointed out that I had inadvertently developed one or two drawing skills in the process.
The limitation of space I fought in the beginning ended up being the best drawing instructor I ever had.
How are you viewing them? With an app or with a web browser? I haven't changed the way I've been posting them recently. Someone else messaged me recently about an error, but it turned out to be an issue with their client parsing the post wrong.