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Pastimes : Gary Larson's The Far Side

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To: richardred who wrote (53)	8/22/2004 4:33:23 PM
From: ManyMoose	Read Replies (2) of 80

I typed the following in from one of the letters reproduced in Larson's Complete Works: Comics Editor Minneapolis Tribune I am quite liberal when it comes to various types of comics and even go so far as to enjoy the cartoons and jokes in magazines like Playboy and High Society. But I must strongly protest the cartoon, The Far Side, by Gary Larson... Larson has some kind of sickness in that he has to portray animals in some kind of suffering situation. I think we have enough people in the world who inflict pain on helpless animals and we don't have to encourage this craziness on the comic pages. I am able to accept comics that deal with people-to-people violence simply because people have some control over how they may or may not feel toward each other. I cannot stomach the violence of people against animals who have no way of knowing when danger is imminent.... and so on and so forth. This guy is totally clueless. He can't see the obvious point of Larson's humor, which illuminates the absurdity of human behavior and slams home that "What you can do to others, others can do to you." Like the three-legged cat and the piranha fishbowl.

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