Tales from the Far Side

http://www.kleefeldoncomics.com/2024/08/tales-from-far-side.html

by nikbackm • 2 years ago

168 38 2 years ago

aaron695• 2 years ago

Neither of the two specials, either in their original or editted forms, are online.

They are on The Pirate Bay and there are videos, but I guess they mean Netflix. The videos are kept alive off the torrents normally, as the video sites go down, torrents are quite the internets backbone.

thanatos519• 2 years ago

Now that I know about it, I'm seeding this torrent forever.

OccamsMirror• 2 years ago

I wish I had never found out that these specials exist. Because now I need to see them and they're not available.

defrost• 2 years ago

The second animated collection is the internet archive: https://archive.org/details/tales-from-the-far-side-ii_20240...

Good chance the first is kicking about there also.

Addendum: Yep - Books & both animated series https://archive.org/search?query=creator%3A%22Gary+Larson%22

metadat2• 2 years ago

If only the first video were archived, this is amazing! Thank you.

kragen• 2 years ago

thanks!

AdmiralAsshat• 2 years ago

Thanks for the link.

Watching the second one is almost depressing, because there's some good jokes in there that are just ruined by the scene dragging out for way too long. Several of them got a smirk out of me but then it's like, "Oh...we're still going, are we?"

If they had just had a decent editor who could've shortened them to have the punch of a Family Guy cutaway gag, I think they would've worked better. Larson's comics certainly had that punch--I just don't think he was quite prepared for how to translate it successfully to the animation medium.

Lammy3• 2 years ago

Here's my personal x265 encode: mega dot nz/folder/It0CwI6I#ty1ux-A9HDeGi8gkDbzjjw

t00lz:

— Pioneer DVR-108 (RPC-1) + DVDfab Passkey + MakeMKV

— Vapoursynth (crop, denoise, deinterlace, resize, colorspace conversion)

— x265 (custom SD tune) + FDK-AAC

— ScanMaker 9800XL + Photoshop CS3

— MKVToolNix

hi-v-rocknroll8• 2 years ago

Thank you, kind human!

Suggestion: Anonymously mirror on archive.org with the original and decrypted VOBs.

Loughla• 2 years ago

Awesome

devoid31• 2 years ago

bless you sir

fooqux• 2 years ago

Thank you so much for helping to preserve this!

cwillu• 2 years ago

Not available, except on all of the major torrent sites.

detourdog2• 2 years ago

Before the internet any town I visited I would comb used record stores looking for songs, albums, or artists I had read about but never heard.

I would also comb used bookstores. Around 42nd in NYC there were huge used magazine stores. One could go looking for Jan. 7th 1954 Life magazine and find it. That was the early 90’s and I miss it.

bombcar• 2 years ago

There’s an entire universe of small press books and magazines that it is even hard to find evidence existed - let alone a copy of them.

I know of a few from personal connections and there’s some really good stuff in them!

mccolin• 2 years ago

A VHS of this I taped from broadcast is bopping around my parents’ basement somewhere. I need to find that.

kennyloginz• 2 years ago

Awesome! Please share if you are able to recover it.

hi-v-rocknroll8• 2 years ago

I wonder if content on VHS tape can be read and/or post-processed better than the best Toshiba or Sony (PAL|NTSC) VCR in history using fancier techniques and modern technology.

Sesse__• 2 years ago

https://github.com/oyvindln/vhs-decode

stavros• 2 years ago

I wonder if the newer reading technology offsets the degradation of the magnetic tape, or whether it's better to digitize X years ago, using the older digitizing technique, but with a stronger magnetic signal.

ericzawo• 2 years ago

My orthodontist growing up had these books in the waiting room and I found them hilarious as a kid even though I only understood maybe 30% of them.

CoastalCoder• 2 years ago

My orthodontist growing up had these books

When I first read that sentence, I thought you were talking about your orthodontist's upbringing.

I eagerly anticipated hearing about how that affected his work with you :)

SamBam• 2 years ago

Dentist eschewed traditional drills and explorers for handmade stuff that looked like Cow Tools.

talldayo• 2 years ago

even though I only understood maybe 30% of them.

My parents got me a Far Side collection when I was younger, and I understood maybe 15% of the comics tops.

But it's still a great read; as an adult I'm stupefied by how much mileage Larson squeezed out of single-pane comics. He was willing to run the gamut of sight gags to double-entendres even to the coming-of-age Calvin and Hobbes style comedy. There's also a pervasive disdain for humanity that lovingly graces most of his comics. Humans are portrayed as baser and stupid compared to talking cows and sapient insects. Children regularly endanger themselves in outrageous situations and their caretakers respond in even stupider ways. Scientists and doctors are portrayed as self-congratulating frauds that care too much about their work to notice or interact with the consequences.

Larson's cynicism is what connected me to his comics as a kid, even when I couldn't get the jokes about taxes and car maintenance. That, and his incredible knack for illustration.

UberFly• 2 years ago

I remember watching this on TV. It was a big deal at the time due to the massive popularity of the strip, but didn't translate well. The whole thing kinda fell flat.

NickC25• 2 years ago

Larson is an absolute national treasure.

Some of my favorite memories of my youth were reading and re-reading some of the Larson books my uncle handed down to me - Far Side Gallery1, 2, 3 & 4 , It Came From The Far Side, and Tales From The Far Side. Some of the jokes I didn't understand until I was older, some I understood right away, and some of them I remember so fondly I could re-create them in my sleep.

A genuine master of his craft, sheer brilliance.

My all-time favorite: https://i.redd.it/my-daily-farside-dump-caw-caw-v0-l7k98dab4...

Another gem: https://i.pinimg.com/736x/26/b4/21/26b421ae077069c6de1f2da18...

Tales from the Far Side

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