In this season of “abundance” I am deeply aware of all the people who can't really celebrate. They need money for basics and wonder where and how they will get that help. In contrast, there is renewed ...

The Busch Light was cold, the air thick with desert dust and utter disbelief. Under the sun, which was fading behind the hills presiding over Phoenix Raceway, Kyle Larson stood on the championship ...

American cartoonist Gary Larson once found himself amid controversy after he used British primatologist Jane Goodall’s name in his iconic single-panel comic series, The Far Side. In August 1987, ...

Jane Goodall, an iconic figure in conservation whose work transformed human-animal relations, is perhaps best known for the trailblazing research she carried out with chimpanzees at Gombe Stream ...

For devoted fans of "The Far Side" cartoon, it was a dark day indeed in 1994, when the panel's creator, Gary Larson, announced his retirement. But all was well on Nov. 1, 1983, when Larson was in ...

Warning: This article has mentions of suicide, mass destruction, morbid death, cannibalism, murder and mass shootings. The Far Side is known to comic strip fans worldwide for being unique, odd,and ...

Since it first hit the funny pages back in 1980, Gary Larson’s The Far Side flipped the whole comic strip game. Forget those tired old multi-panel routines — Gary Larson was doing single panels, ...