The Far Side has many celebrity fans, but Stephen King's favorite strip shows how its horror-tinged comedy was ahead of its time.
As one of the most popular comic strips ever created, it's no surprise that Gary Larson's The Far Side has celebrity fans, from Robin Williams to horror writer Stephen King. However, in choosing his favorite strip from the series' long history, King presents a perfect example of how The Far Side was ahead of its time in combining humor and horror.
In his foreword to The Far Side Gallery 2, King waxes rhapsodic about The Far Side, claiming that even in an age where newspaper comic strips were at the height of their popularity and quality, Gary Larson was "uniquely unique." King goes on to pick out his favorite of Larson's work, selecting a strip in which one dog shows another small animals it has killed, stuffed and mounted like hunting trophies.
SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT This cartoon alone only made me smile. But the effect of Larson's work, unlike that of many surreal cartoonists , is cumulative. I found myself not looking at these circumstantial jokes as single things, isolated from one another; they seem somehow connected ...
Far Side's Macabre Comedy Was Ahead of Its Time Of course, there's nothing outrageous about Larson's work - though some darker Far Side comics, such as one that sees a group of crocodiles 'bobbing for poodles,' did upset readers at the time - but there is definitely an element of the macabre underlying the series.
While it certainly leans more comedy than horror, fans of The Far Side won't be surprised that a horror master like Stephen King finds so much to love in Gary Larson's quietly morbid comics.
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