Day Four of A Classic Comics Christmas
Dec. 17th, 2010 12:02 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jkcarrierContinuing my countdown of 12 favorite newspaper strips. See other peoples' choices here:
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=350735
Coming in at #9...
The Far Side
by Gary Larson
The ultimate gag-a-day strip...no plots, no recurring characters (unless you count broad archetypes like "cows" and "housewives"). And yet you can spot a Far Side strip at a glance, just from the consistently skewed sense of humor. What I like is that Larson isn't afraid to be subtle, or even obscure. The punchline doesn't always hit you in the face, you sometimes have to look at it and think for a minute before everything falls into place...but the payoff is worth it.
http://forums.comicbookresources.com/showthread.php?t=350735
Coming in at #9...
The Far Side
by Gary Larson
The ultimate gag-a-day strip...no plots, no recurring characters (unless you count broad archetypes like "cows" and "housewives"). And yet you can spot a Far Side strip at a glance, just from the consistently skewed sense of humor. What I like is that Larson isn't afraid to be subtle, or even obscure. The punchline doesn't always hit you in the face, you sometimes have to look at it and think for a minute before everything falls into place...but the payoff is worth it.
