The Far Side’s 1994 TV Adaptation Proves A Movie Needs To Happen

Although Gary Larsons The Far Side ended almost 30 years ago, the comic strips forgotten TV special proves that a movie adaptation could still work. Gary Larsons The Far Side ran from 1979 to 1995. The offbeat one-panel comic was one of the most influential and divisive newspaper comics in the mediums history thanks to its uniquely dark sense of humor and its lack of recurring characters. A surreal strip, The Far Side

often focused on aliens, talking animals, monsters, murder, and all manner of macabre, morbid subjects. Despite this, it was a genuinely hilarious and beloved strip.