I sometimes wonder what Larson's childhood was like.
this post was submitted on 27 Oct 2023
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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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Maurice Sendak, author of Where the Wild Things Are wrote about childhood, saying:
People say "Oh Mr Sendak! I wish I were in touch with my childhood self, like you" as if it were all quaint and succulent, like Peter Pan. Childhood is cannibals and psychopaths vomiting in your mouth.
I don't really know if it has much to do with Gary Larson's childhood, but I just love finding an opportunity to bring up that quote.
That is an excellent quote! Thank you for sharing.
Just a guess: Dark.
The Far Side, by Junji Ito
I have a 4 year old who we struggle to get in bed at night. And he sleeps on the 2nd floor. It's just too perfect.
Well I guess this is one way to ensure childhood trauma and create the next great Gary Larson.
My parents used to threaten me with being sold to the gypsies. I had no idea what they were, but I was moderately afraid of them. One night they broke out Coconut Face, and he chased me up the stairs. I still have sleep issues.
Coconut Face was a face carved into a coconut husk. My father got it when he was in the navy. It used to scare the shit out of us. One of my cousins still talks about it the better part of 40 years later, and he was never deliberately scared with it.
I used to have weird dreams about the gypsies too. The details are tough to conjur at the moment.
Just FYI that's considered a slur nowadays