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Far Side Gallery 2001 Calendar

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Larson's original gallery has so many classic Far Side cartoons that you can not justify not owning this sensational collection of his work. Larson may well have retired a while ago but the power of these works of brilliance to make the reader laugh will never fade. There have been many who have copied Larson's style but I have never come across anyone else who has even come close to achieving the quality of The Far Side.

Buy The Far Side Gallery along with its sequels, the original smaller books that make up these galleries are also great buys, along with the calendars and other merchandise. Larson's 2007 calendar gives all the proceeds to wildlife conservation (which obviously inspired a lot of his work) so get that too. You can never own enough of The Far Side.

In this volume (originally released in 1984) of the Gallery collections you will find such classic Far Sides as on Noah's Ark "Well that's it for the unicorns, from now on all the carnivores are confined to C Deck", the father being held up by his shirt collar by an invisible man with his son saying "BigBob is tired of you saying he doesn' exist, the smashed bottle falling from the clouds with humans running away with the word Uh-Oh! from the sky. The bears riding in the circus car saying "Looks Like a trap I said, nonsense no one would set a trap way out here in the woods you said...." The crocodiles on the river bank saying "That was incredible, no fur, claws, horns, antlers or nothing, just soft and pink" and of course the classic picture of dinosaurs smoking with the caption beneath "The Real Reason Dinosaurs Became Extinct" are just a small sample of the classic laughs within this sensational masterpiece.

Some of my earliest memories are filled with reading The Far Side on my father's lap after the evening meal. Whenever I asked my parents for a one of the standard collections, they told me to wait, one day they would all be in one book. Then, for Christmas one year, I got this book.

What can I say, but thank you Mom and Dad and thank you Mr. Larson! The Far Side was, and still is, funny, original, and timeless. This collection gives you some of the best of the original strips and lends itself well to watching the progression of humor up and through until the end.

I love the Far Side calendars. However, there are duplications of cartoons in the 2001 Off the Wall Calendar that were printed in the 2000 Off the Wall Calendar.

If you do not mind repeated cartoons, it is a good calendar.

I just bought the calender a few days ago and I couldn't wait till next year. This 2001 calender has some of the funnest Far Side cartoons every created. And best of all it has color cartoons for Monday, so it really helps get Mondays started. So if you haven't ordered it yet, order it today!

This book is a hilarious collection of every Far Side cartoon that appeared in the earliest days of the strip. The human is weird, but very intelligent, and is of the kind that either you love it or you hate it. Instead of buying the smaller Far Side books buy the Far Side Gallery instead, you'll get more Far Side for less money. If you already love the Far Side you need this book.

If you like Gary Larson but don't know which book to buy, this is the one. It is hilarious, has cow stuff. I asure you you'll laugh your brains out. Well, at least it happened to me

Terrific collection of those inexplicably clever, geeky, and very much offbeat creations of Gary Larson's. Many of the cartoons from The Far Side Gallery are instantly recognizable classics to a legion of fans. This is probably the best one of the collections.

"Why not write a cartoon book that doesn't bother with a main character and where each joke is totally different from the next?!" That must have been similar to what Gary asked himself when starting to write his hilarious comic books. Every joke is truly different from the next one! And every joke is refreshingly original! Each joke comes from a thoughtful, clever and of course playful mind.

Not only being Gary Larson's first gallary book of the Far Side series but, a classic. Holding in it some of the most memorable and most enjoyable comic panels. A must have for anyone who collects Far Side books or anything relating with Far Side. A great book even if it is your first Gary Larson book to be interested in, a must have! The First Far Side Gallery, will always hold a special place on my book shelf. Be sure to check out his other books as well! Also if you want a laugh 365 days a year check out Gary Larson's "Off the Wall Desk Calender". its great, give you something to laugh at every day!

The Far Side Gallery is the first collection of Gary Larson's crazy comic strips featuring hordes of talking anthropomorphised fauna and fowl of all shapes and sizes.

These are generally very amusing, and generally very witty, and you are bound to get some fridge or door material out of one of these.