{"id":82791,"date":"2023-06-13T02:00:15","date_gmt":"2023-06-13T06:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=82791"},"modified":"2023-06-12T08:44:02","modified_gmt":"2023-06-12T12:44:02","slug":"why-the-far-side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2023\/06\/13\/why-the-far-side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling\/","title":{"rendered":"Why <em>The Far Side<\/em> is a masterclass in storytelling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jQjGW5Mxk58\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Gaze<\/strong><br \/>\nPublished 26 Dec 2019<\/p>\n<p><em>The Far Side<\/em> by Gary Larson is one of the best and most praised cartoons in history. But what makes <em>The Far Side<\/em> so good? What is the legacy of Gary Larson? And most importantly: what can we learn from The Far Side?<\/p>\n<p>0:00 Pixar and Storytelling<br \/>\n1:22 How Gary Larson tells a story<br \/>\n2:42 <em>The Far Side<\/em> facts and figures<br \/>\n3:22 The level of detail in The Far Side<br \/>\n4:04 Telling a story with one image and a punchline<br \/>\n5:09 What is <em>The Far Side<\/em> about?<br \/>\n7:11 Gary Larson and naturalism<br \/>\n7:40 Controversy over <em>The Far Side<\/em><br \/>\n8:10 The legacy of <em>The Far Side<\/em><br \/>\n9:00 Conclusion<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>SOURCES<br \/>\n<em>The Complete Far Side<\/em>, Gary Larson, Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1278p<\/p>\n<p><em>Gary Larson and The Far Side<\/em>, Kerry D. Cooper, University Press of Mississippi<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Pleasures of Stupidity: Gary Larson as Baudelairean Caricaturist&#8221;, David Carrier, <em>Nineteenth-Century French Studies<\/em>, Vol. 27, No. 1\/2 (Fall\u2014Winter 1998-1999), pp. 62-70<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Savage Mind of Gary Larson&#8221;, Lucy Rollin, <em>Studies in Popular Culture<\/em>, Vol. 12, No. 1 (1989), pp. 75-86<\/p>\n<p><em>Toy Story<\/em>, John Lasseter, Pixar Studios, 1995<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Interview of Gary Larson by Lynn Sherr&#8221;, ABC&#8217;s <em>20\/20<\/em>, 8 January 1987<\/p>\n<p><em>The Simpsons<\/em> Season 9 Episode 5 &#8211; &#8220;Treehouse of Horror VIII&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Thagomizer: <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thagomizer\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Thagomizer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>StrigiphilusGarylarsoni<\/em>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbGhPeWdLYWR1cGpIUXprNTR4VmdwbUpFQ3JOZ3xBQ3Jtc0tsOVcyUFM3dk9LdTBoZHZ5dGZmak9sclFuSGJiR0dWZFFwN3RjNGZqdjJMOHliWGRocVJMYm1tVy1OMC1EWS1oOHhVTllKRlFhYWkwdmJLQjFXTFhTcl9vM1JxSW5ZY1JJQjh0NWpzVzktMWRIS2NaSQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FStrigiphilus_garylarsoni&#038;v=jQjGW5Mxk58\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Strigip&#8230;<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Norm &#038; Cliff explain The Far Side to Woody, <em>Cheers<\/em>, S09E04, 1990 <\/p>\n<p>MUSIC<\/p>\n<p>Andra L\u00e5nggatan, p\u00e4r: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbnRaQ1BkaVhiN0M3RHFiVGVLYXl5Uzg1aHQ2Z3xBQ3Jtc0ttSGdwczFmLTZxcFVRUmRuZEdOWlRXQncxUlE3dmlXTEI0OHk4V2o5LUlrb1g2SlJPMmxUb2h0LUFBSXEyRldDYTJXNlhKZUxnci1nSnhqbVhqLTVJUWdDWno2c0pXbm8xVnUtLWNWOENDY3JvOS0zWQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fp-r-hagstr-m%2Fandra-langgatan&#038;v=jQjGW5Mxk58\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/p-r-hagstr-m\/a&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A House of Glass, p\u00e4r: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqbUN6Ri1jT1FGTkRHNXRYTldiUm1TaFFESm5hUXxBQ3Jtc0tuRzZpWFJvZ0JycVptUEZSMmQ2aUIyd1BtR0RRUnVEMzdReDVtWWc5R0VneHZjMHpFcVpUN09JcW12aFFOdjZiWG5ab2Vla3pmUUZGZnh0c1AzSDVYUy10Q1ZfWlFVNU1zTGhxeWdZdFkxVldaRXlaWQ&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fp-r-hagstr-m%2Fa-house-of-glass&#038;v=jQjGW5Mxk58\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/p-r-hagstr-m\/a&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valiant, Luar: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/redirect?event=video_description&#038;redir_token=QUFFLUhqazRIdHItMENCWDBvdG9qcjNkNTRMZGU5d1hoQXxBQ3Jtc0tsMjVLalZPckJjVGMxVjNzNEZfTG1iNXlWc1J6N2hfdS1Ock5ZRktLZmJhUlNjT3dTaGltUjJQWU90aVozQU02ZU9LS2ZydHRucklORG1rbWdrVno4ektRaGVhdDZvbThWbUZKdEpsV3ljOTQyV2ktZw&#038;q=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Fluarbeats%2Fvaliant%3Fin%3Dluarbeats%2Fsets%2Fscorelines&#038;v=jQjGW5Mxk58\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/luarbeats\/vali&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-13-at-08-43-06-Why-The-Far-Side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling-Quotulatiousness.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-13-at-08-43-06-Why-The-Far-Side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-82803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-13-at-08-43-06-Why-The-Far-Side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling-Quotulatiousness-480x270.png 480w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-13-at-08-43-06-Why-The-Far-Side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling-Quotulatiousness-150x84.png 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-13-at-08-43-06-Why-The-Far-Side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling-Quotulatiousness-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-13-at-08-43-06-Why-The-Far-Side-is-a-masterclass-in-storytelling-Quotulatiousness.png 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Gaze Published 26 Dec 2019 The Far Side by Gary Larson is one of the best and most praised cartoons in history. But what makes The Far Side so good? What is the legacy of Gary Larson? And most importantly: what can we learn from The Far Side? 0:00 Pixar and Storytelling 1:22 How [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,57,28,13],"tags":[102,262,463],"class_list":["post-82791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-humour","category-media","category-usa","tag-art","tag-culture","tag-parody"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-lxl","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82791"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82791\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82804,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82791\/revisions\/82804"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}