The Far Side
Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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Pink flamingo lawn art was a fad around the time that this came out. I think it is simply making fun of that, by contrast.
I think that's sort of part of it, but I think it's at least as much about the people in the houses as the ornaments on the lawns, who I see as likely representations of a Boomer (an actual boomer, not merely "someone older than me") on the right and a gen-x on the left.
So anyhoo, I see this as a bit of a generational commentary, a bit of a commentary on asymetric identity broadcasting, wrapped up in a sort of a visual pun that just feels absurd. That's of course a mountain of speculation, and perhaps a mirror of my own biases as much as a read of Larson's intent... but this stuff would have been floating around in the cultural broth Larson was cooking with, and it a read that's not all that out of character for his style.