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Gary Larson's 10 Best The Far Side Comics, Ranked
(www.polygon.com)
My pick for #1
Cow tools or bust.
School for the gifted is missing as well!
It would be #1 on a list of his most confusing comics, for sure.
What's confusing about cows not being good at making tools? 🤷♂️
I was suprised the thagomizer comic wasn't included. Simply due to the legacy it created by becoming the real name now used to describe the spike tail on dinosaurs - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thagomizer
It was acknowledged but rejected:
It's tempting to associate greatness with the comic strips that made the biggest impact, like the Stegosaurus strip that resulted in a new name for a dinosaur bone, but Larson’s work never set out to end up in science books.
Thanks, I missed that section!
I just barely skimmed it in a rush to get to the list myself, just remembered something something Stegosaurus.
Cat fud
There was one that was never sent to papers, but made it to the books--Jesus making a cup of coffee one morning saying, "I feel like I've been dead for three days."
My favorite is “It was late and I was tired”
- Midvale school for the gifted.
- First pants, THEN your shoes.
- Blah, blah, Ginger, Ginger, Ginger.
- Boneless chicken ranch.
- +1 on "Blah, blah, Ginger"
- Bummer of a birthmark, Hal
But my all-time favorite
I still use the phase "My brain is full" when I am over stimulated.
Bummer of a birthmark Hal
My favorite was Drive George Drive! This ones got a coat hanger!
Pull.
I'm missing antidaephobia
this post was submitted on 11 Sep 2026
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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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