{"id":41687,"date":"2020-07-09T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/?p=2644649"},"modified":"2020-07-09T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T17:45:00","slug":"the-far-side-returns-after-25-years-and-its-all-digital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/09\/the-far-side-returns-after-25-years-and-its-all-digital\/","title":{"rendered":"The Far Side returns after 25 years, and it\u2019s all digital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" style=\"display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;\" link_thumbnail=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" id=\"image1\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/0vwfBQ510eBPZmJtc5z6SqkjSFw=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67032120\/FARSIDE_HERO.0.jpg\" width=\"827\" height=\"551\" data-pre-sourced=\"yes\" data-sourced=\"yes\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/0vwfBQ510eBPZmJtc5z6SqkjSFw=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67032120\/FARSIDE_HERO.0.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/thumbor\/0vwfBQ510eBPZmJtc5z6SqkjSFw=\/0x0:2040x1360\/1310x873\/cdn.vox-cdn.com\/uploads\/chorus_image\/image\/67032120\/FARSIDE_HERO.0.jpg\" \/><\/span><small>Image: Farworks<\/small><\/p>\n<p>Gary Larson just released&nbsp;new comics for&nbsp;<em>The Far Side<\/em>, the first strips since January 1995. While Larson cautions that this is &ldquo;not a resurrection of&nbsp;<em>The Far Side<\/em>daily cartoons,&rdquo; after 25 years of rereading our favorites, we&rsquo;re so excited for new work that we&rsquo;ll take anything he wants to share. Larson started to&nbsp;bring his comics online&nbsp;late last year.<\/p>\n<p>The first of the new comics features bears, aliens, and taxidermy (all staples of&nbsp;<em>The Far Side<\/em>). The style is comfortably familiar, with two large exceptions: instead of watercolor, the new comics are done in digital brushstrokes that make the images feel more volumetric and vibrant than the&nbsp;original full-color cartoons. Also, the penned outlines, which exist in both the watercolor and black-and-white original comics, are almost entirely gone. The end result is images that evoke the feel of the old comics but are somehow a little less&nbsp;<em>cartoony.&nbsp;<\/em>The characters and elements all feel unified in the scene together.<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside><q>&ldquo;I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained.&rdquo;<\/q><\/aside>\n<\/div>\n<p>Both the style changes and the comic&rsquo;s return are due to the fact that Larson is now using a digital tablet. After years of frustration dealing with clogged pens and dried-up markers, Larson decided to give going digital a chance. &ldquo;I was stunned at all the tools the thing offered, all the creative potential it contained. I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved,&rdquo; Larson writes in an opening letter for&nbsp;<em>New Stuff<\/em>, the title for his new works. &ldquo;Perhaps fittingly, the first thing I drew was a caveman.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Larson isn&rsquo;t the first cartoonist to trade in a pen for a stylus. The allure is pretty strong. Using a tablet opens up a wide variety of digital brushes and tools as well as the ability to work in layers for objects and coloring &mdash; options that didn&rsquo;t exist when Larson&rsquo;s series first ran. The range of styluses that exist to mimic pens and screen protectors that make it feel like drawing on paper allow for a smoother transition, too.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the letter, Larson asks readers to remember, &ldquo;I&rsquo;m just exploring, experimenting, and trying stuff.&rdquo; And that is exciting. With a plethora of new tools at his disposal, we&rsquo;re eager to see how they&rsquo;ll be used to revive&nbsp;<em>The Far Side<\/em>, however infrequently Larson gets around to it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tags\">\n<div><strong>See Campaign: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/21317458\/far-side-new-comics-creator-gary-larson-25-years-digital-tablet\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/21317458\/far-side-new-comics-creator-gary-larson-25-years-digital-tablet<\/a><br \/><b>Contact Information:<\/b><br \/>William Joel<\/p>\n<p><b>Tags:<\/b><br \/><a href=\"\"><\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/artificial-intelligence-newswire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Artificial Intelligence Newswire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/news-category\/wire\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Wire<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/global-regions\/united-states\/\" rel=\"category tag\">United States<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/category\/language\/english\/\" rel=\"category tag\">English<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" alt=\"image\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"cwdfimg\" \/><\/div>\n<div>\n<h3>Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>William Joel<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"119\" height=\"40\" src=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/4000-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\">Image: Farworks Gary Larson just released&nbsp;new comics for&nbsp;The Far Side, the first strips since January 1995. While Larson cautions that this is &ldquo;not a resurrection of&nbsp;The Far Sidedaily cartoons,&rdquo; after 25 years of rereading our favorites, we&rsquo;re so excited for new work that we&rsquo;ll take anything he wants to share. Larson started to&nbsp;bring his comics &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/icrowdnewswire.com\/2020\/07\/09\/the-far-side-returns-after-25-years-and-its-all-digital\/\">Continue reading <span>The Far Side returns after 25 years, and it&rsquo;s all digital<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/09\/the-far-side-returns-after-25-years-and-its-all-digital\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,3,22,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-newswire","category-english","category-united-states","category-wire"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Far Side returns after 25 years, and it\u2019s all digital - Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/ipsnews.net\/business\/2020\/07\/09\/the-far-side-returns-after-25-years-and-its-all-digital\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Far Side returns after 25 years, and it\u2019s all digital - Business\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Image: Farworks Gary Larson just released&nbsp;new comics for&nbsp;The Far Side, the first strips since January 1995. 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