#the far side

[porterdavis]

The Far Side

#the far side

[everydaylouie]

the far side (in 3D)

#the far side #blender #3d

[fesenmoon]

no fucking way

#sketches #comics #the far side #crocodiles #my art #i don’t know how to tag this. #also i should probably say. i tried to look into it further and i haven't seen hard hard evidence that they do this on purpose #personifying animals is tempting but ultimately i think it's just hot speculation atm. crocodilians are famously tough to research too #like the advantages may be a coincidence or just pure curiosity/play. which is also really cute...love those guys #sorry for the misinformation! light theory only afaik #comic

[moviesludge]

I came into my room and there was a web directly across the inside of my doorway even though it had only been a couple of hours since I last walked in here. Of course I immediately thought of this old Far Side which is never too far from my mind

#The Far Side #Comics

[quasi-normalcy]

I think that what's brilliant about The Far Side is how it can imply an entire narrative with only a single panel. It's sequential art without the sequence. Like this one

There's the obvious implication of what's going to happen in the future (there's going to be a hunt), but it also stretches into the past: what circumstances in the anthropology of this group of cavemen must have happened to establish a tradition of dancing with Woolly Mammoths? Why does it, in spite of it's obvious absurdity, feel kind of right that there should be a dance before the cavemen and the mammoths engage in mortal combat? The reluctant fearful expression on the caveman at the bottom; is this his first hunt? Are those his elders trying to reassure him? Does the one mammoth actually seem to fancy him? What about the one looking fearfully back at his friends? How does he feel that the others aren't there to reassure him? One of the mammoths in the upper right looks just as fearful as the cavemen; why? etc.

And all of this is purely evoked. There's only simple line-drawing and two sentences of text, but you see it and it reminds you of other sorts of narratives you've seen or experienced, and your brain constructs a whole temporal sequence; and any possible answer you could get to above the questions would never be as satisfying as what your brain fills in.

I could write an entire essay about this.

#the far side #gary larson #art #comics #narrative closure

[card-of-the-day]

Today's Card Is: The Magician

#card of the day #submission #tarot card #the far side #cow tools #november 26 2023

[dirtyriver]

"In hindsight, I might have gone a little dark on that last one."

#Comics #Kerry Callen #Mad #Joker #Harley Quinn #Blondie #Peanuts #Garfield #The Far Side

[ozymandiasfoxmercury]

#196 #r196 #lethal company #the far side #gary larson #cow tools

[alex99a]

The Far Side for Saturday.

They aren't having it any more.

#the far side

[a-book-of-creatures]

This particular Far Side comic always cracks me up

#the far side #gary larson #clowns

[notahorseindisguise]

gary larson this is one BANGER of a comic, thank you.

#creature #creachure #gary larson #the far side #far side #comic #corntent

[porterdavis]

#the far side

[everydaylouie]

Special Agent Gumby falls into the frustrated hands of the enemy.

(another Far Side panel recreation in Blender!)

#blender #3d #the far side #gumby

[chongoblog]

Fun Fact: “Thagomizer” is a term used in the scientific community that originated from this comic in 1982

#just spreading the fun fact in case people didnt know #the far side #love this comic

[t00thpasteface]

patron request

#art #sketch #request #cow tools #the far side #memes #meme redraw #dc #batman #bruce wayne

[quasi-normalcy]

Magnus Archives Fear Entities by Farside Cartoon (Alternate Version)

The Beholding

The Corruption

The Buried

The Dark

The Vast

The Spiral

The Lonely

The Stranger

The Web

The Desolation

The Hunt

The Slaughter

The Flesh

The End

The Extinction

#the far side #the magnus archives #tma #smirke's fourteen #the entities