The Far Side is an American single-panel comic created by Gary Larson, syndicated from 1980 to 1995, known for surreal, absurdist humor that frequently features anthropomorphized animals, scientists and everyday domestic scenes pushed into bizarre or darkly comic territory. Unlike the continuous-narrative format of most newspaper strips, each Far Side panel presented a self-contained, often deliberately strange scenario with a short caption rather than dialogue-driven plotting. The Far Side is widely regarded as one of the most popular and stylistically influential syndicated comics of its era, and reprint collections and calendars of the strip have continued to sell long after its original run ended.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.Gary Larson biography page, meta summary
Gary Larson is an American cartoonist best known for his single-panel comic series The Far Side, which is renowned for its scientific content and bizarre humour. Larson produced The Far Side for 15 years, from January 1980 until January 1995.
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The Far Side is an American single-panel comic created by Gary Larson, syndicated from 1980 to 1995, known for surreal, absurdist humor that frequently features anthropomorphized animals, scientists and everyday domestic scenes pushed into bizarre or darkly comic territory.
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The Far Side is a single-paneled comic strip created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from January 1, 1980 through January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist).
Created By: Gary Larson, Article lead sentence
The Far Side is a single-paneled comic strip created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from January 1, 1980 through January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist).
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