by "RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
Published 04/14/2017 at 16:40

Tags: far side friday
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Replies (7)

"Cash Rewards" (cashrewards)
04/14/2017 at 16:49, STARS: 0

Not to be a buzzkill, since i love the far side as much as anyone, but apparently Gary Larson has some objections to his work online. Not that you’ll get a cease and desist or anything, but FYI

http://www.comicmix.com/2008/03/07/gary-larson-and-our-far-side-cease-and-desist/

"Tekamul" (tekamulburner)
04/14/2017 at 17:06, STARS: 1

Boy, I hope he doesn’t google his own name, then hit ‘images’. He’s gonna explode.

"RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht" (ramblininexile)
04/14/2017 at 17:16, STARS: 3

I think the cat is out of the bag on that one a bit. I’ll have to consider it, but during the Far Side Friday posts I’ve done, I’ve run across hundreds of different single posts of Far Side cartoons, and with the thrust of the letter being the risks of irresponsible use, *compilation*, and obviously unauthorized for-profit use, my main aim here (sticking something on the notional refrigerator of Oppo) has I think been fairly benign.

Given that was nine years ago and the letter was described by someone knowledgeable as old even then, I wonder if his perspective has changed at all.

I must admit though, I have no idea why Andrews McMeel doesn’t publish Far Side classics on GoComics. When literally every Far Side cartoon ever printed is *somewhere* on the web and it’s been out of newspapers for over 20 years, I’m not sure of the point.

"Die-Trying" (die-trying)
04/14/2017 at 17:16, STARS: 4

i hope im not too late today.......

"Chariotoflove" (chariotoflove)
04/14/2017 at 17:32, STARS: 1

Monetary impact from copyright infringement I understand. The argument in that letter did not move me. When a person create a piece of art that expresses something personal, he can keep it personal and share it only with those with whom he wants to share said deeply personal feelings. If that person releases his art for wide release, and it becomes widely popular, it does so because it touches something that reaonaltes with those people. The personal experience evoked by the art is theirs, not the artist’s. The artist has no say in that experience.

TL;DR: if you want to know where your children are every night, then don’t sell them.

"Cash Rewards" (cashrewards)
04/14/2017 at 18:04, STARS: 1

Those are good points.

"Cash Rewards" (cashrewards)
04/14/2017 at 18:06, STARS: 0

I don’t disagree with you, and I do wonder if he feels differently over the years. I only found out trying to find a certain one online and stumbled across that (it was the Trouble Brewing one, with the skydiving place next to the alligator farm).