Broadly speaking, there are two ways that aFar Sidecomic can be gauged as “successful.”

In the background, meanwhile, another “art piece” prattles on about the Vice President.

“Hey, what are you lookin' at?

far side skeletal ghosts

You want trouble buddy, you found it!”

Far Side, surprised man (right, foreground) and samurai dog about to ambush mailman (background, left)

Far Side wide-eyed man (foreground, color) with scientists observing a melted colleague (background, b/w)

Gary Larson (foreground, b/w) with a Far Side comic in the background featuring a green monster in a purple room.

Far Side, October 9, 1987, bananas in trench coats preparing to rob a bank

Far Side, June 1, 1988, a woman camafloges herself to survive a monster attack

Far Side, August 5, 1988, a ‘poultrygeist’ sends a farmer’s chickens flying

Far Side, December 12, 1990, depicting dangers ‘baby toys to avoid at Christmas’

Far Side, August 22, 1991, mafiosos out ‘boid watching’

Far Side, September 16, 1991, depicting ‘the art of conversation’

The Far Side Complete Collection Book Set

Far Side, November 29, 1991, depicting ‘Giorgio Armani’ at home as a slob

Far Side, February 8, 1993, depicting a disembodied ‘face in the crowd’

Far Side, May 26, 1993, cows taste one of their own kind

Far Side, July 29, 1994, a German man out fishing on a lake is threatened by a message in the clouds

The Far Side Comic Poster

Comics

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