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Summary Gary Larson's The Far Side famously loves animals - in fact, the strip was originally going to be titled Nature's Way - with a focus on everything from house pets to its recurring giant squid. While Larson definitely favors dogs, The Far Side has many great cat comics, with feline protagonists hunting down small creatures and putting humans in their place.
14 "Randy's Goin' Down!" Far Side's Classic Surrealism Gets a Feline Twist The Far Side often drops animals into a human-like world, and here Larson imagines a cat 'catching' mice by buying them from a gumball machine. One of the hallmarks of The Far Side is treating life as cheap - not necessarily in a ghoulish way, but more in the sense of adopting a scientific perspective.
The different ways this strip has been colored shows how Larson's comics can shift meaning when they move out of his original black and white. Above, one version of the comic uses minimal coloring, while another adds more cloud and shadow. While more detailed, the latter changes the joke, as now the chicks are hidden in shadow, rather than being on full display as the first thing the reader will definitely see.
10 "I Know Nothing" Far Side Goes Full Looney Tunes This is one of the rare Far Side comics that would actually be stronger without its text, as a pet owner comes home to a scene that tells a very clear story. The panel lays out Gary Larson's ability to tell a short story with a single image, and the reader is just as aware as the pet owner who's responsible for the destroyed bird cage and missing canary.
7 "Is He Friendly?" Larson Creates the Best Form of the Joke by Prioritizing Inference Larson loves the gag of someone blithely underestimating a clearly dangerous animal, especially if someone else in the scene has visible injuries that should make them think twice. In this case, the joke is made all the stronger because the cat is so small and calm, allowing the reader to at least dip into the speaking character's perspective, assuming the pet is harmless.
5 Bob's Assorted Rodents Far Side Goes Looney Tunes Again with a Subtly Surreal Gag In another comic for cat owners, Larson depicts a kitty that desperately wants to get outside after witnessing an accident it could only have imagined in its wildest dreams. It would have been easy for Larson to make this gag fit more neatly into the real world , but instead he thinks up the two most specific, surreally perfect-for-the-situation businesses possible to drive this cat to distraction.
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