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Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Fans of The Far Side know that the strip was often far more complex than it might seem at first glance – and the surprising backstories of some of his funniest comics make it clear that there is a ton to discover in any given panel. As writer and illustrator Gary Larson once revealed, many Far Side jokes started out as short stories before being turned into cartoons.
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Without supervision, however, things gradually got out of hand. I think it was Randy Boone who suggested inserting the death-ray. It went on from there as we constructed the steel-tooth mandibles and a double-barreled flamethrower. Weeks later, our creation was completed and we activated it for the first time at an assembly in front of the entire student body. Needless to say, when the carnage finally ended, we all received an "F.
In The Prehistory of The Far Side, Gary Larson shared several more short stories that developed into Far Side comics, and their self-adaptive nature is one of the most fascinating things about this insight into the author's creative process.
Of course, I was stunned. This was, after all, an inanimate object. And, truthfully, to this very day, I've never been able to coax the ketchup to say or do anything, and have concluded that the sneeze was my own imagination. Larson's Prose Stories Were Like Sketches Of Future Jokes The Creative Process Behind The Far Side Close A look at some of prose work, and how it inspired later panels, offers a valuable perspective on one of the most unique creative minds of the twentieth-century.
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