Looks like the nays have it and I’ll keep posting the comics with the caption in the image, as before. I’ve added a number to the title for making it easy to differentiate between each strip (which will aid in scripting the posting).
What do people think of that? If that’s also too much I can go back to just the date for the title.
Trying out a new posting style today, with the caption as the post title instead of in the screenshot. Let me know what you think!
Yeah, the joke is that the bugs are having a very human-like reaction to the idea of bugs crawling all over.
Yeah, it was about mid 80’s that he reached the style you generally think of as The Far Side. 1980 was still pretty close stylistically to Nature’s Way, his previous strip that mutated into The Far Side. Here’s another one of those strips that’s similar to this one:
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Whenever and wherever my family gets together for a big dinner, my mother (whose name is Doris) feels compelled to pull out her camera and take the quintessential shot of the Larsons about to bolt down their meal.
Since wolves are such social animals, it was an easy jump in my mind to go from a wolf-kill to a Larson meal.
Anyone know if there’s an easy place to find all of the new comics? That cub scout one isn’t available on the site anymore. Kind of weird that they’re trying to close off access to them.
Yeah, they’re definitely still the standard. They’re not really replaced by comments, comments are more for explaining why bits of code are the way they are. Docstrings are kind of like comments for functions/classes/etc that Python knows how to handle specially. The interpreter will parse the docstrings and make help text out of them available to the help builtin function
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The cartoon potential on the subject of spitting cobras is enormous. People have asked me if I ever worry about running out of ideas for cartoons, but I think the array of nature’s creatures that sting, bite, spit, stab, suck, gore, or stomp is just about endless. I never worry.
dip is a mild insult meaning “a foolish person”. It’s a play on the term Big Dipper, aka the Ursa Major constellation. Larson drew what he thought represented a foolish person as the constellation.
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What kind of sordid, bizarre past a scientist and some duck could possibly have is for anyone to surmise, but I enjoyed the drama in suggesting that, once again, their lives have become entangled and a new chapter is about to be written. Personally, I enjoy cartoons of this type because they lack the obvious “cymbal crash” at the end of the punch line. The idea evolved as shown.
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THE EXHIBIT
I drew a cartoon quite a few years ago entitled, “The Real Reason Dinosaurs Became Extinct.” The drawing involved a small clique of dinosaurs hanging out together and smoking cigarettes.
That cartoon stayed in my sketchbook for almost a year until, pressed for ideas one week, I dug it out and submitted it for publication. And, lo and behold, it became one of the most popular cartoons I’ve ever drawn. Obviously, if I’d had any idea of its potential impact, I never would have sat on it for as long as I did.
The following and final section of this book, however, does not include the cartoon just described—nor any cartoon from The Far Side based simply on its known popularity, which would turn this into a sort of “Hit Parade” of weird humor.
Simply put, the following cartoons are among my own personal favorites. They’re the ones that I feel best reflect something about my own attitude toward history, music, literature, art, religion, and science. (Yeah, sure they do.) I’ve rarely laughed out loud at the things I’ve drawn (I’m a little too close to the “joke” to ever be surprised), but these are the cartoons that at least made me smile inwardly. (I might mention that some favorites are in the main body of the book and are not repeated here.)
A final note: I contemplated making this last section a collection of what I consider the lousiest cartoons I’ve ever drawn, but space was limited.
Thanks, I appreciate hearing it!