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The Curse of Madame "C"
is another fun collection of Gary Larson's The Far Side comic strips.
The first fifteen pages of the book are printed in color on glossy
pages. Eleven of the fifteen pages tell a story about how Gary Larson,
as a young man just out of college, spent some time hiking across
Europe. During his trek, he stumbles across strange people and soon
meets a gypsy woman driving her own wagon. She takes him into his wagon
and reveals her true self to him. In Rod Serling's voice, "Little does
Gary Larson know that he is about to start on a journey that will lead
him down the dark trail toward . . . The Far Side."
The Far Side has been one of my favorite
daily cartoon strips for many, many years. Back when this comic strip
was appearing daily in the newspapers, every day I would look forward to
opening the newspaper, find the Funnies page, and see what kind of
strange thing Gary Larson had come up with. Sometimes I would laugh
aloud, sometimes just smile, and infrequently I didn't do either, but
still thought that the comic strip had merit. It wasn't often that I
either didn't understand one of the strips or that it just want' very
funny. I was almost always entertained.
The collection of comic strips in this
book are pretty good. They are not as funny as Gary Larson's earlier
drawings, but since I have never seen these before, they were all new to
me. I found about eight different strips to chose from to display above
and finally settled on the dogs at the meeting table. That one made me
laugh out loud.
Overall, The Curse of Madame "C"
is a good collection of The Far Side comic strips. I think that there is
only one more book to go before it all ends. I have been disappointed
ever since Gary Larson put down his pencil and decided to never create
any more comic strips. His last comic strip was published on January, 1
1995. What a shame and what a waste of talent. |
