Far Side, painter painting a portrait of a woman mixes her up with a fly.
Summary Gary Larson's syndicated newspaper comic The Far Side frequently featured unforgettable comics about flies, and just as often as the insects were depicted in their natural state, they were just as likely to be re-imagined as proxies for human beings. Larson infamously anthropomorphized animals, insects, flowers, and even inanimate objects, with each offering a slightly different – but always characteristically warped – perspective on humanity.
10 For The Far Side's Flies, First Comes Love, Then Comes Marriage, Then... First Published: September 3, 1981 As one of the earliest Far Side panels featuring anthropomorphized flies, this panel helped set the tone for the ways in which Gary Larson would use this recurring strain of his humor. Over the years, they proved effective for lampooning human behavior, by substituting "M usca domestica" – the scientific name for a house fly – for people.
8 Gary Larson Channels Cronenberg In This Fly Cartoon First Published: March 10, 1983 Three years before David Cronenberg's remake of The Fly hit theaters, Gary Larson was keeping the concept of a scientist who transformed into a fly in the zeitgeist, with this riff on the premise from the 1985 B-movie.
At its core, this cartoon offers an example of Gary Larson's ability to take a horrifying, tragic situation, and find the humor in it; often, this came as a result of transposing the action onto nonhuman characters. The fundamental hilarity of this joke's premise, naturally, proceeds from the question of why an insect couple would keep insecticide in their home, and then builds on the absurdity of the homeowner making such an egregious oversight.
Many Far Side cartoons proceeded from the premise of nonhuman characters engaging in human behavior; though the idea of a fly driving an automobile is deliberately ridiculous, Larson's meditation on the differences between how humans and other creatures treat their young is one of The Far Side's most thought-provoking jokes.
3 These Far Side Flies Recognized The Importance Of Cleanliness First Published: June 17, 1987 Most people are familiar with the woe of a clogged shower drain – an experience Gary Larson warps through the lens of The Far Side here by depicting a fly couple in the bathroom, as the husband remarks, "Shoot! Drain's clogged," before ruminating on the situation for a moment and then adding, "Man, I'd hate to think what might be down there.
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