History Trivia / TheFarSide

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** FalloutShelterFail
** FeatherFingers
** IAteWhat

* BigNameFan:
** Jane Goodall was a longtime reader of the strip, and she in particular enjoyed one fairly controversial comic that poked fun at her.
** Different ''Far Side'' compilation books featured intros from Creator/RobinWilliams, Creator/StephenKing, and Creator/SteveMartin.

* BigNameFan: Jane Goodall was a longtime reader of the strip, and she in particular enjoyed one fairly controversial comic that poked fun at her.

** Larson has always been adamant about keeping any of his work from appearing online, saying he feels like they're his kids and he doesn't like the thought of them staying out late in a strange place.

** [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first. One particular case that he offers up involved a penguin among his hundreds of identical brethren singing "I Gotta Be Me," that the syndicate inkers decided to color yellow, which still worked as a minor heartwarmer (i.e. "He's singing because he's ''unique!''"), but also utterly ruined Larson's joke (i.e. "He's singing because he's ''not'' unique.").

** The ''Tales from the Far Side'' DVD is perpetually sold out on Larson's web site and is unavailable elsewhere for sale. Your best hope to see the specials is to get lucky on a video-hosting site before they're yanked on copyright grounds.

** Arguably a [[Administrivia/TropesAreTools positive example]]. Part of his commemorative book, "The Prehistory of the Far Side", consists of him saying how grateful he is that his editors kept him in line and prevented certain risky cartoons from making it to the newspapers. He even credits one case of this as saving his career.

* WriteWhatYouKnow: Averted, according to ''A Prehistory of The Far Side'' the only cartoon that comes from personal experience is the one where a guy knocks himself unconscious by installing an extending bar in his doorway and doing a pull-up.

** Arguably a [[TropesAreNotBad positive example]]. Part of his commemorative book, "The Prehistory of the Far Side", consists of him saying how grateful he is that his editors kept him in line and prevented certain risky cartoons from making it to the newspapers. He even credits one case of this as saving his career.

** [[TropesAreNotGood However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first. One particular case that he offers up involved a penguin among his hundreds of identical brethren singing "I Gotta Be Me," that the syndicate inkers decided to color yellow, which still worked as a minor heartwarmer (i.e. "He's singing because he's ''unique!''"), but also utterly ruined Larson's joke (i.e. "He's singing because he's ''not'' unique.").

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The ''Tales from the Far Side'' DVD is perpetually sold out on Larson's web site and is unavailable elsewhere for sale. Your best hope to see the specials is to get lucky on a video-hosting site before they're yanked on copyright grounds.

* HeAlsoDid: Larson drew the cover art for a jazz album called ''[[https://www.joesalbums.com/images/product/ellis-mitchell-doggin-around-record-lp.jpeg Doggin' Around]]''.

** [[TropesAreNotGood However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first. One particular case that he offers up involved a penguin among his hundreds of identical brethren singing "I Gotta Be Me," that the syndicate inkers decided to color yellow, which still worked as a minor heartwarmer (i.e. "He's singing because he's ''unique!''"), but also utterly ruined Larson's joke (i.e. "He's singing because he's ''not''.").

** [[TropesAreNotGood However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first. One particular case that he offers up involved a penguin among his hundreds of identical brethren singing "I Gotta Be Me," that the syndicate inkers decided to color yellow, which still worked as a minor heartwarmer, but also utterly ruined Larson's joke.

** Different ''Far Side'' compilation books featured intros from Creator/RobinWilliams and Creator/SteveMartin.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The ''Tales from the Far Side'' DVD is perpetually sold out on Larson's web site and is unavailable elsewhere for sale. Your best hope to see the specials is to get lucky on a video-hosting site before they get yanked on copyright grounds.

** [[TropesAreNotGood However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first. One in particular case involved a penguin among his hundreds of identical brethren singing "I Gotta Be Me," that the syndicate inkers decided to color yellow, which still worked as a minor heartwarmer, but also utterly ruined Larson's joke.

** [[TropesAreNotGood However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first. One in particular case involved a penguin among his hundreds of identical brethren singing "I Gotte Be Me," that the syndicate inkers decided to color yellow, which utterly ruined Larson's joke.

** [[TropesAreNotGood However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first.

* KeepCirculatingTheTapes: The ''Tales from the Far Side'' DVD is perpetually sold out on Larson's web site and is unavailable elsewhere for sale. Your only hope is get lucky on a video-sharing site before it gets pulled on copyright grounds.

** [[TropesAreNotGood However]], in the same book, he expresses his displeasure whenever strips were altered without telling him first.