Gary Larson’s The Far Side is celebrated for its offbeat humor. However, beneath the laughs lies a streak of surrealism and darkness that feels oddly reminiscent of classic television storytelling. In ...

Already running for a decade, readers of The Far Side had long been exposed to the dark and weird corners of cartoonist Gary Larson's mind. Depicting animals acting as humans, nerds as jocks, aliens ...

One common complaint about science fiction involving aliens, especially a large and diverse cast of different alien races, is that the aliens just aren't alien enough. It seems like every week, the ...

Gary Larson’s iconic comic strip The Far Side regularly featured a wide assortment of surprisingly intelligent animals, including snakes, bears, apes, cats, anteaters, and of course, cows — although ...