Throw away your calendars: The Far Side is finally coming to the internet
“So it’s like this but with a funny caption below the black-and-white cows?” Photo: Maeers/Fox Photos
Nearly 25 years after bringing his iconic The Far Side strip to an end, Gary Larson seems to have come around on this whole “internet” thing. The cartoonist has previously pushed back against any digital reproductions of his work—presumably because he was single-handedly keeping the calendar industry alive and the big, hardcover Far Side collections have become family heirlooms passed down from generation to generation—but now the official Far Side website has been updated with what appears to be new art and a message about a “new online era of The Far Side” coming soon. (Also, it’s the internet, so Far Side cartoons have been everywhere forever, but Larson presumably wasn’t happy about it.)