Beyond The Far Side [Paperback]

Gary Larson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1983

The Far Side® and the Larson® signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

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About the Author

Gary Larson lives in Oregon with his wife and a Big dog. Although retired from his job as a daily syndicated cartoonist, he is now turning his graphical talent to new forms of technology. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Product Details

• Paperback: 104 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (August 1, 1983)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836211499
• ISBN-13: 978-0836211498
• Product Dimensions: 5.4 x 8.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,359 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #58 in Books > 4-for-3 Books > Entertainment > Humor > General

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Gary Larson lives in Oregon with his wife and a Big dog. Although retired from his job as a daily syndicated cartoonist, he is now turning his graphical talent to new forms of technology.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Unbeyondlivable how funny this is, May 2, 2003

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James N Simpson (Gold Coast, QLD Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Beyond The Far Side (Paperback)

With the classic bear not wanting to be shot pointing at his friend seen through a rifle's telescopic lens cartoon on the front cover you know that you're in for a treat.

Beyond the Far Side contains some of the all time classics such as Superman checking for change in the coin slot of a phone booth while getting changed, "Say what's a mountain goat doing way up here in a cloud bank?" seen through the cockpit window of a plane and the classic smoking dinosaurs picture with the caption "the real reason dinosaurs became extinct."

Once you have one Far Side cartoon you have to own them all. The only way you can do that is to buy every single one of these Far Side books. This isn't a bad one to start off with.

Tip it may be cheaper to buy The Far Side Galleries which are three of these books put together so compare prices.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Up to the standards of all the other far sides., March 17, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Beyond The Far Side (Paperback)

Beyond The Far Side. author; Gary Larson. The Far Side is one of the funniest comics ever, and this collection is up to- if not surpassing- the level of excellence raised by the other Far Side comics. The animation is good, and jokes are twice as good as Clavin and Hobbes, and eight hundred trillion times better than Garfield, Which stopped being funny in the mid-eighties.

7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Humor with a brain, March 18, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Beyond The Far Side (Paperback)

Gary Larson's The Far Side continues to please. These are the jokes great greeting cards are made of. As only the best humorists like Jerry Seinfeld do, Mr. Larson makes the reader smile and laugh the most when making us laugh at ourselves. In his cartoons, the reader will see the idiosyncracies, rigidity, and sarcasm of everyday life. His cartoons are caricatures: hyperbole. So that, in a way similar to Jerry Seinfeld, Larson makes us feel more confident and pleased with the humor of it all because we are not laughing at anyone's expense.