Gary Larson begins publishing The Far Side again - 2020 deserves this.

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Oscar Wildean said:
To make this even better would be if Bill Watterson brought back Calvin And Hobbes, but that'll never happen.
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Even if Watterson refound his inspiration (and overcame being an agoraphobic Luddite), I'm not sure C&H would even work today. Calvin's childhood already seemed slightly antiquated to me at the time, and by now it's probably got as much to do with being a kid today as "Beetle Bailey" does with being in the Army.
I mean, who sits down with a stack of printed encyclopedias to scribble out their homework in pencil anymore? Takes a Radio Flyer wagon out into the woods and doesn't come back till sundown? Calvin's beloved Saturday morning of cartoons doesn't exist anymore, and his comic books are an old-man thing now.
And a lot of material would be off-limits today - the kids are much meaner to each other than you could probably get away with today, and Calvin's more violent fantasy scenarios probably wouldn't fly. Some of them even got Watterson in hot water at the time - I think the "airstrike on his school" fantasy was one of them.
 
L50LasPak said:
As much as I agree with your post, I single this part out because I have a simple question: Can you blame him?
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These days, you can't help feeling him a little, but he was already a Luddite in the golden age of information technology, pre-internet. I'll never see eye-to-eye with someone who worked from 1985-1995 and concluded nothing of value was invented in that time.
 
Kosher Dill said:
These days, you can't help feeling him a little, but he was already a Luddite in the golden age of information technology, pre-internet. I'll never see eye-to-eye with someone who worked from 1985-1995 and concluded nothing of value was invented in that time.
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Some days I wonder if people like that were right to be honest.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Even if Watterson refound his inspiration (and overcame being an agoraphobic Luddite), I'm not sure C&H would even work today. Calvin's childhood already seemed slightly antiquated to me at the time, and by now it's probably got as much to do with being a kid today as "Beetle Bailey" does with being in the Army.
I mean, who sits down with a stack of printed encyclopedias to scribble out their homework in pencil anymore? Takes a Radio Flyer wagon out into the woods and doesn't come back till sundown? Calvin's beloved Saturday morning of cartoons doesn't exist anymore, and his comic books are an old-man thing now.
And a lot of material would be off-limits today - the kids are much meaner to each other than you could probably get away with today, and Calvin's more violent fantasy scenarios probably wouldn't fly. Some of them even got Watterson in hot water at the time - I think the "airstrike on his school" fantasy was one of them.
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That's kind of sad, how Calvin And Hobbes doesn't work in society anymore. It had so many great messages for children. I know what you mean though. Some of the Calvin and Susie ones would offend some people.
 
Arm Pit Cream said:
Here's some of his new stuff, I miss the old art style but it's not a huge downgrade when what mattered was the jokes
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He's mentioned on the site he's been practicing digital art, and it shows he's still a bit of an amateur with it (the alligator Christmas looks a bit weird compared to the "Taxidermist!" picture, so he's slowly but surely getting the hang of it), but it's endearing as hell. You can teach an old dog new tricks.

reptile baht spaniard rid said:
Help me with the Noah one. It looks like the punchline is missing.
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I think it's about poop, but I dunno. Now are these aardvarks or kiwis?
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Why is a meteorite from Luna dark blue/aqua anyway?
 

I wonder how many people watched this interview of him, dating back to 1987.

A lot really has changed since then.
 
Kari Kamiya said:
He's mentioned on the site he's been practicing digital art, and it shows he's still a bit of an amateur with it (the alligator Christmas looks a bit weird compared to the "Taxidermist!" picture, so he's slowly but surely getting the hang of it), but it's endearing as hell. You can teach an old dog new tricks.


I think it's about poop, but I dunno. Now are these aardvarks or kiwis?
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I think the digital is clear - look at the “bad photoshop” below your kiwis.
 
Kosher Dill said:
Calvin's childhood already seemed slightly antiquated to me at the time, and by now it's probably got as much to do with being a kid today as "Beetle Bailey" does with being in the Army.
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And that sucks. Instead of being free to go off and play on their own and experience nature and the real world, little kids of Clown World are cooped up at home because it's "safe and secure", they wear "face masks" to school because of the coof, and they "experience" the world through tiny plastic screens.
 
Gary Larson's DMCA attorney (((Kyle Kremers))) via Andrews McMeel Universal has requested that all comic images posted to this thread be deleted.

I'm locking the thread for discussion because the overwhelming positivity for this person and his art is obviously misplaced.
 
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