Here’s Larson talking about that:

Transcript:

In my hometown, The Far Side is carried by the Seattle Times, which “crops” the cartoon so that it fits a little better on their comic page.

On the day this cartoon was published, friends started calling me for an explanation as to its meaning. I hadn’t seen the cartoon myself (other than when I had drawn and submitted it weeks before) and the conversations sort of went in circles before I got a few clues that something was amiss

I opened the newspaper to the comic section and discovered that someone, in order to compress the cartoon’s size, had chopped off a rather vital part of the humor.

The newspaper ran a correction the following day but, all in all, it’s sort of nice for a change when no one understands one of my cartoons but it’s not my fault.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

I’ve always been drawn to swamps and wetlands and the things that live there. In those places, I find myself mostly looking downward for frogs, fish, salamanders, or whatever.

I think if I ever lived in feudal times and stormed past a castle gate, I’d have to check out the moat on the way across.

I suppose I like this cartoon not only for the suggestion that the usual crocodiles have been replaced with goldfish, but because that’s me yelling on the bridge.

HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA

Is it broken because it’s trying to load it as an image, or does it not even open as a regular link? NVM, I was able to recreate the brokenness in Thunder as well. If I long press on the link in the post, it sends an invalid request that Wikimedia responds with The requested page title contains invalid characters: "%C3", so it’s barfing on the URL encoding of unicode. Your link also makes Thunder work.

This originally appeared in Nature’s Way, Gary Larson’s earlier cartoon before The Far Side:

I edited it just after posting to add the NSFW flag, but it seems it didn’t federate to feddit.org. I tried toggling it again, hopefully that works.

It’s interesting that they didn’t fix that at some point. They’ve fixed other mistakes, and that doesn’t look intentional.

I don’t think it’s AI, it’s likely just laziness. There have been a few comments in here showing how often the 3 panels were literally copy/pasted in the newer strips.

Seems the 2019 TV series borrowed this bit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B88jtopjtWg

Some background on this comic:

Transcript (First Draft):

You know, we could really use a spatula.

Transcript (Second Draft):

“Man, this is our lucky day, Bob… Smashed bacon + eggs on the road.”

I assume so. An ace lead is pretty good but not the best in most trick taking games, so I can see that as “Teddy bears are nice and let you win”

Hi from Lemmy 👋

There isn’t a good way of knowing the original date, and there aren’t good titles, so they’re posted with the “rerun date”.

Here’s some pics for scale:

I was slightly confused and wondering about beetles the size of a beer bottle, but it seems like not really, the males just like big mates and don’t discriminate much.

Yeah, I don’t see anything beyond “the bears are mugging him instead of eating him”

Yeah, wonder if they’re confusing it with something else. Here’s more info for anyone unaware:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demon_core

The demon core was a sphere of plutonium–gallium alloy that was involved in two fatal radiation accidents when scientists tested it as a fissile core of an early atomic bomb. It was manufactured in 1945 by the Manhattan Project, the U.S. nuclear weapon development effort during World War II.

It’s weird that they made it look like the Demon core, but not behave like it.

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

The Los Angeles Times, which carries The Far Side, has taken umbrage with my cartoon on several occasions. (Apparently, someone there actually reads the comics beforehand.) These three, as I recall, created some conflicts with the “good taste” standards of that paper, and I believe all three were deleted from their comic page back in the early eighties.

The first two I suppose are subjective, although I don’t remember other papers censoring them. Their rejection of the elephant cartoon, however, had me baffled. I’ve always found it appalling that the demand for ivory has caused these magnificent animals to be continuously poached—but the ultimate act of contempt for the rights of wildlife has got to be represented by the elephant’s foot wastebasket. And that’s the point I was striving for in this cartoon—not that I was hoping to make a profound comment of any sort (the cartoon is really pretty inane, I think), but just who wouldn’t be upset to find out something like this had been done to a former part of their anatomy?

Thanks!

Thanks! You’re now admin 🙂

Not much tbh, mostly responding to account applications and reports. There’s probably a few per day combined, max. It’s just good to have redundancy to increase the odds that they can be handled relatively quickly.