The Far Side returns

Always loved his stuff, LOL. Hopefully he doesn't get politically leftist.

As far as newspaper comics go, I think he is the very best. I think his comic is too much about basic human stupidity to be politically slanted.

A big part of me will always love the simple line drawings that were more than just line drawings. (And keeping Rapidographs flowing was an art unto itself.)

Of his first three digitals, IMO the first was overdone, and the second two were just right.

Overdone being a disease caught from CGI, just because you can doesn't mean you should. Less is better. Or in the eternal words of Jack Webb, "Just the facts."

He’s not doing new material

ETA: I should have said new Far Side material

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The ‘New Stuff’ that you’ll see here is the result of my journey into the world of digital art,” Mr. Larson said. “Believe me, this has been a bit of a learning curve for me. I hail from a world of pen and ink, and suddenly I was feeling like I was sitting at the controls of a 747.”

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Says it’s not a “resurrection” of Far Side. I suppose he means he views this as a different set of works

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The Far Side and Calvin & Hobbes are the two best comic strips of all time.

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Bloom County and Calvin & Hobbes are always going to be 1 and 2 for me. Everything else is fighting for 3rd place. Admittedly Bloom County loses a lot of its zing if you did not personally experience the 80s.