I sure hope that Gary Larson is back - best cartoons ever!
Him and Gahan Wilson.
Have never seen 5 of the first 7 posts removed like that before. And I’ve been here awhile - what’s up with that?
Back in Minneapolis there was a cartoonist by the name of Guidon - he did local cartoons. Similar, goofy style as the Far Side. But VERY local.
Probably from the 70’s?? One panel cartoons.
One was a guy in city hall with a bunch of dairy products tied around his overcoat. “If my street isn’t plowed by midnight tonight - that is the EXACT same time these dairy products will expire!”
Another shows a guy dead in front of his truck with the hood open and a pair of jumper cables at his feet. “I don’t know officer - he just said he couldn’t stand the snow and the cold anymore, and.....”
Another one was an older couple with a bunch of stuff in their front yard. A hip young couple are standing at the curb. The old lady says “Oh, I’m sorry. We aren’t having a yard sale. We’re just tacky.”
My favorite is the older couple sitting on their big heavy metal lawn chairs. The ones that sort of look like an ocean shell on the back, and a sideways “U” shape that forms the legs. Sitting in front of their shack of a cabin at the lake. A big wood electrician’s spool as a picnic table. A big fish (a carp?) on the Weber grill. An old boat and a bunch of other crap strewn across the yard.
“Yep Ethel. It don’t get much better than this!”
One of the best ever, IMO. I have his two volume compilation, and it is brilliant. His cartoons have a way of connecting with the mind of nearly every human (and animal!) but also hilariously missed the connection on some.
My favorite one that I completely did not get for years was “The Holsteins visit the Grand Canyon”. I just could not get it.
It shows the family posing for a picture in front of the Grand Canyon...I just didn’t get it.
When I posted this sentiment online, a Freeper said “You didn’t notice the boy doing the “longhorn” sign over his sister’s head?”
All these years, I had seen the object on top of her head, thought it was a bow, only to realize then that it was her brothers hoof held up behind her head!!!!!!
I will withhold judgement until I see what the new cartoons are. Gary Larson is a firmer Seattleite and a far left loon.
I once emailed Pat Brady of “Rose is Rose” back in 1996. I have a copy of the response printed out and a screen capture, asking if he was going to retire like those other guys (Bloom County “Berke” Breathed) and Gary Larsen of the “Far Side”.
Rose is Rose
http://syndication.andrewsmcmeel.com/comics/strip/roseisrose