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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Gary Larson's The Far Side is so surreal that it's often hard to imagine where the creator could have found his inspiration. Often, the answer is Larson's love of nature or random pop culture moments that he plays out to the point of absurdity. However in the case of one Far Side comic, the answer is that Larson was apparently struck by the desire to make fun of his longtime editor.
Related The Far Side's First 10 Comics Are Still Hilarious Today The Far Side's first ever comics introduce some of Gary Larson's most enduring themes, including strips which are just as funny over 40 years later. Larson knocking himself unconscious while exercising, being terrorized by his brother, and being attacked by his pet snake all inspired Far Side comics.
In the same collection, Larson reveals that he once had a Burmese python which attempted to eat him. Larson bought the snake as a pet when it was small, and didn't register that it had grown to 15 feet long. Larson notes that one day his pet "attempted to do me in" and he was forced to rehome it. It's therefore no surprise that a similar snake appears throughout The Far Side, consuming everything from ducks and babies to the Seven Dwarves and even Jim Davis' Garfield.
Similarly, horror author Stephen King was parodied in one Far Side comic as a macabre child deriving pleasure from his disturbing ant farm, but still saw fit to provide the foreword for The Far Side Gallery 2, where he waxed lyrical about Larson's talent, claiming, "he does what artists and humorists are supposed to do: he sees what I could see if I could have his eyes.
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