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After many years of marital bliss, tension enters the Kent household.
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DAILY PLANET / Stupid
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After many years of marital bliss, tension enters the Kent household.
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DAILY PLANET / Stupid
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This artist refuses to draw human characters as anything other than fat and ugly.
New here?
No, but this is probably the most egregious example of my critique.
This is pretty middle-of-the-road for Larson’s style, just how he draws people. But read enough of these and you’ll find examples of ugly people as morally flawed (or vice versa), and the way he deals with “nerds” was a product of its time that has to seem pretty retrograde to younger people nowadays.
It doesn’t ruin The Far Side for me, but stands out in a “you wouldn’t do that now” kind of way.
Boomerisms. Fitting, given that Gary Larson is literally a boomer. Though, seeing a character drawn so off-model is going to irk me regardless of the artist’s prestige.
His first name is Gary, can you imagine?
Especially the women.