The Far Side Gallery [Paperback]

Gary Larson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 1984

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

Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; Original edition (October 1, 1984)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0836220625
• ISBN-13: 978-0836220629
• Product Dimensions: 10.9 x 8.5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #30 in Books > Comics & Graphic Novels > Comic Strips

More 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Original 1984 Gallery of Masterpieces Will Never Go Out of Fashion, December 18, 2006

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

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.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My First Far Side Collection, March 4, 2006

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S. Mann (Carlisle, PA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Far Side Gallery (Paperback)

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.

17 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It is a great calendar if you did not buy 2000, October 22, 2000

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Stephanie DeCou (Boynton Beach, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Far Side Gallery Off-The-Wall Calendar with Other (Calendar)

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.