The Far Side characters including a caveman, bear, young boy, scientist, woman, and cow waving at the reader.
Summary The Far Side is best known for eschewing the traditional multi-panel style of newspaper comic strips, in favor of utilizing a single-panel format – though over the course of the cartoon's run in syndication, there were plenty of instances in which Gary Larson deviated from his own general "rule," in order to maximize the potential of a particular joke.
10 Depicting "Ding-Dong-Ditch" In A Single Panel Would Be Difficult First Published: October 24, 1981 Whenever Gary Larson opted to employ a multi-panel layout – in place of his signature single-panel style – it was ultimately a result of the decision to prioritize function over form. In other words, if the joke required action, or if Larson wanted to depict a sequence of moments, rather than just one, it became necessary to have more than one panel.
8 Too Much Absurdity To Contain In A Single Panel First Published: January 13, 1984 "Confusing, obtuse, esoteric, and strange" are just some of the words that have been used to describe The Far Side – by creator Gary Larson himself. Among readers, it is most regularly described as "absurd," and this is perhaps one of the comic's most absurd installments, to the point where Larson needed multiple frames to contain it.
6 Multi-Panel Comics Let Gary Larson Expand On His Unique Perspective First Published: July 23, 1984 This Far Side comic utilizes multiple panels in order to tell a joke that involves movement and perspective, as a stegosaurus starts off in the distance in the first panel, with a tree placed in the foreground, providing a sense of size and spatial coordinates. Over the course of the remaining five images, the dinosaur steadily lumbers closer – until it bonks its head directly into the tree.
This is put to supremely effective use in this particularly bizarre Far Side; the top half of the frame depicts a man in a phone booth, while the bottom half shows who he is calling: his wife, who is putting the receiver to the ear of their pet rhinoceros, pleading with it, "come on, baby...One grunt for Daddy.
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