Cows aren’t particularly poignant

My colleague Tom Bowers read my previous post about Calvin and Hobbes and said he knew of a comic strip that might rival what Bill Watterson put on the page.

His nominee: The Far Side .

My immediate reaction: no way.

I love The Far Side. Gary Larson ’s strip was funny and twisted and edgy in all the good ways. But Calvin and Hobbes was all those things and poignant besides.

Larson was many things, but poignant was seldom – if ever – one of them.

Below: Gary Larson’s comic strip The Far Side ranks, in one critic’s opinion, second only to Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes.

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