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

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Cardenio said:
Taken from Wikipedia's entry on The Far Side:

Honestly I think Gary Lawson foresaw in advance that the freedom of the internet would allow people to alter comics which he clearly abhors since he treasures his work. He pretty much predicted internet meme culture.

Think about Garfield, it was a drab inoffensive comic about a fat smug cat. Some dude on the internet realized that if you take Garfield out of the comics (Garfield Without Garfield) the comic turns into the bizarre nonsense monologues of Jon Arbuckle. Then Fatal Farm decided to lampoon Garfield with their classic "Lasagna Cat" spoofs. Nowadays Garfield is more or less a punching bag for internet humor. For zoomers Garfield is probably more famous for its parodies then its actual comics or cartoons.

I can't get into the head of a 67 year old Baby Boomer. But maybe Larson finally realized that the internet only really beats up on lame ass comics. The Far Side along with Calvin & Hobbes are insanely influential works, I don't think the guys who made Rick & Morty would deny that they were clearly inspired by Larson when they came up with that show's recurring surreal visual gags.

I hope he continues making comics, maybe it'll encourage Bill Watterson to make more stuff, although C&H should stay completed. His guest star comics for "Pearls Before Swine" were great.
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To be fair, Jim Davis freely admits he's only in it for the money and was figuring out ways to license and merchandise Garfield from the beginning. He has also said he gets a kick out of stuff like G-G.
 
Someone in a Tree said:
We’ll know that the sun is about to go supernova when Calvin and Hobbes returns.
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Since I've never actually seen this mentioned anywhere: back when Facebook let anyone buy adspace to promote absolutely anything, me and hundreds of others initially thought so too when this was in the promoted page rotation

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Because CALVIN & HOBBES RETURN! is something that gets an intense goddamn click, you'll miss the fine print indicating you're about to read a Fables ripoff

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The entire thing reminded me of something that you'd find via a rom site banner ad in the ultra-early 2000's, but at least pioneers like Cards-n-Toons had the decency to give you either boomer hoomer OR hot girls

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Also, my interpretation of Cow Tools for the first time as a kid was "monkeys use tools, so it'd be funny if cows did too", and I was pleased to find out that Pre-history of The Far Side vindicated me
 
Watterson will never return. The autism is too strong. The last thig he did was those leather bound volumes to replenish his neetbux
 
mindlessobserver said:
Watterson will never return. The autism is too strong. The last thig he did was those leather bound volumes to replenish his neetbux
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I mean there's nothing wrong with it. He left the comic before it became dull and forumulaic. I can only imagine how much better Peanuts would have been remembered had Charles Schultz bowed out early instead of making years and years of tired comics.

I just would like it if he posted the occassional doodle that he felt was worth sharing. Of course one can argue that he left perfectly as readers to this day want more. It's a tough decision creative types have to follow. Going out in your prime makes people disappointed but so does turning your work into mediocrity.
 
Cardenio said:
I can only imagine how much better Peanuts would have been remembered had Charles Schultz bowed out early instead of making years and years of tired comics.
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ehh, I'm sorta okay with Peanuts going until Sparky bought it
 
Blimp said:
Since I've never actually seen this mentioned anywhere: back when Facebook let anyone buy adspace to promote absolutely anything, me and hundreds of others initially thought so too when this was in the promoted page rotation

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Because CALVIN & HOBBES RETURN! is something that gets an intense goddamn click, you'll miss the fine print indicating you're about to read a Fables ripoff

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The entire thing reminded me of something that you'd find via a rom site banner ad in the ultra-early 2000's, but at least pioneers like Cards-n-Toons had the decency to give you either boomer hoomer OR hot girls

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Also, my interpretation of Cow Tools for the first time as a kid was "monkeys use tools, so it'd be funny if cows did too", and I was pleased to find out that Pre-history of The Far Side vindicated me
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I remember when that faggot did this on facebook. I commented on his ad and said something like "Calvin and Hobbes would never be in your crappy comic" and he deleted my comment. I guess people don't like the truth when you steal someone elses work.
 
XYZpdq said:
ehh, I'm sorta okay with Peanuts going until Sparky bought it
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The last few years were really great. He just started going off on weird tangents and some off the wall humor, like one kid deciding to start writing "Underground Comics" (was that Rerun?).
 
Some good news for 2020. To make this even better would be if Bill Watterson brought back Calvin And Hobbes, but that'll never happen.
 
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