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Ichabod Crane v. the Headless Horseman in The People’s Court.
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Your honor, that is simply not true! I never insulted his horse! No way!
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“I tell you, a crib is just plain worthless—what we need around here is a good cardboard box.”
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Crucial decisions along life’s highway
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NEVER NEVER LAND / NEVER SAY NEVER LAND / SOMETIMES BUT NOT ALWAYS LAND / SAY IT DON'T SPRAY IT LAND / NEWARK,
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“Hold it right there, Henry! … You ain’t plannin’ on takin’ that wrinkled horse into town, are you?”
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“Well, there goes my appetite.”
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HAPPY VALLEY NUDIST COLONY
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The woods were dark and foreboding, and Alice sensed that sinister eyes were watching her every step. Worst of all, she knew that Nature abhorred a vacuum.
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“Ha! Thak get short straw! ... Thak go see if Zog still live here.”
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Disable user-select: none; (and variants) on body to be able to select text again. I like the idea of a blog post that calls out something annoying and demonstrates the annoyance inline, though
Some background on this comic:
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The most loving, gregarious dogs seem to get down to their basic instincts pretty fast when you reach for their food bowl midmeal. (For a real thrill, try reaching for it in slow motion. Dogs love the sensation that their food is being stalked.)
I started playing with this tendency in dogs, and it just sort of evolved into the grizzly bear cartoon seen at left.
This is an earlier comic of his, 1980 (copyright date on top right) is shortly after The Far Side was started and the art still kind of resembles his earlier strip Nature's Way. Here's another Nature's Way strip to compare:
How are you viewing them? With an app or with a web browser? I haven't changed the way I've been posting them recently. Someone else messaged me recently about an error, but it turned out to be an issue with their client parsing the post wrong.
An early version of this comic:
For accessibility, and to make it easy to find later. The original page has the caption as regular text and I add it to the image, so it's easy to include it
Neat, that page references this comic:
He was featured in the syndicated comic strip The Far Side, which showed him as a clumsy person who spilled things in various stages of his life; as a baby (his cup), teenager (pen ink in his shirt pocket), and ultimately as an adult, driving into a water tower.
An early version of this comic, from Gary Larson's pre-The Far Side strip called Nature's Way:
I think the dog bowl is actually an oilpan, for changing oil. The hose is probably for washing cars getting said oil change.
John Brown was a famous abolitionist. He was executed, and there was a question of what do with with his remains. "John Brown's body" then became kind of a meme and was turned into a song:
As an aside, interesting note in the Wikipedia article about him:
Brown was the leading exponent of violence in the American abolitionist movement, believing it was necessary to end slavery after decades of peaceful efforts had failed.
Some background on this comic:
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Because The Far Side is a vertical, single-panel cartoon, I've rarely had the luxury of being able to draw long things (like whales, snakes, ships, etc.) in an accommodating shape. In general, the perspective has to be from front to rear, as opposed to side to side. (Sunday cartoons, which I started not long ago, and modified dailies are the only exceptions.)
In cartoon strips, you frequently see the latter approach—because the strip lends itself well to horizontal images. In The Far Side, as the examples on this page indicate, ships come at you head on, classrooms are view from either the front of the back, and riding in the car is often seen from the perspective of the backseat looking forward or from the windshield looking inward. I just can't draw a '59 Cadillac in profile.
I'm saying this because I drew The Far Side for years without truly being cognizant of why I approached it this way. I was just trying to figure out ways to cram things into a little rectangle. It was a friend of mine (also a cartoonist) who pointed out that I had inadvertently developed one or two drawing skills in the process.
The limitation of space I fought in the beginning ended up being the best drawing instructor I ever had.
That definitely reads as AI generated. I don't really get the point of making posts like that if you're not even going to write them yourself.