# Post other great non-Far-Side cartoons. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 12, 2010, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294 "2010-03-12T21:01:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![rowrrbazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rowrrbazzle/32/414_2.png) [@rowrrbazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rowrrbazzle)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/61 "2010-03-17T02:55:44Z")
A couple of Gahan Wilson’s. This one appeared in an issue of Playboy (December, probably). People standing around a fireplace which contains a skeleton in a Santa Claus suit. Caption: “We found what’s been blocking your chimney since last Xmas, Mrs. Smith.” This was in an issue of _Fantasy and Science Fiction_. Two astronauts are in a rocket which has landed somewhere. They’re looking out their viewport and see short people in funny clothes dancing around the rocket and two legs in striped socks projecting from under the rocket. Caption: “Ding dong, the witch is dead!” ---
**Author:** ![Kimstu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecd19e/32.png) [@Kimstu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimstu)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/62 "2010-03-17T03:10:31Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Kimstu, I wouldn’t say I’m a fan of Gluyas Williams, but he did a few truly great ones (the crisis as Proctor and Gamble, and Mr. Coolidge refuses to leave the White House). Yup, classics. I enjoyed a lot of his “Raconteurs” cartoons and his illustrations for Robert Benchley books as well. Peter Arno’s a good one too, but my favorite cartoon of that whole era has to be the immortal [“Gee, Jack! That was very careless of you!”](http://www.cartoonbank.com/1940s/Gee-Jack-That-was-very-careless-of-you/invt/119030) ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/63 "2010-03-17T06:50:41Z")
Many of the best Thurber cartoons feature dogs. One I have hanging on my office wall shows a park scene with a Walter Mitty-type walking his small terrier, who’s straining on his leash to get to a much larger hound being walked by a prototypical overbearing Thurber woman, who snaps at the man, “Are you two looking for trouble, mister?” There’s also the one of the man seated in his living room easy chair reading a book, while a fire-breathing dragon comes up behind him. The man is saying to his frantically barking dog, “Shut up, Prince! What’s biting you?” One last, seasonally apt Thurber - a woman and man walking in the country, the woman saying “I _said_ the hounds of spring are on winter’s traces - but to hell with it.” ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 6:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/64 "2010-03-17T06:59:31Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > Gahan Wilson…Guy lying on a psychiatrist’s couch. In the easy chair next to him is a bearded, bespectacled corpse in advanced decomposition. “How long has it been, doctor, since we had our little disagreement?” This just reminded me of one by Charles Addams. A psychiatrist is tied to a chair, and an eerie little man is peering at him and saying “Tell me, doctor…when did you first notice this paranoia of mine?” Great minds working alike? ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2010, 9:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/65 "2010-03-17T09:50:32Z")
XKCD is _brilliant_. My second-favorite cartoon series of all time. Calvin & Hobbes just might be the best cartoon series ever written. Although I’m not sure if it resonates with girls as much as it does with guys (my mom and sister didn’t really get the appeal). Most of us financial types follow [Alex](http://www.alexcartoon.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Klutz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captain_klutz/32/4993_2.png) [@Captain\_Klutz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Klutz)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2010, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/66 "2010-03-19T15:25:24Z")
Don’t know the author, but: The Venus de Milo is complete, and is carrying a dustpan, broom, bucket and mop. Caption is “It is believed that the Venus de Milo was vandalized by early feminists”. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/67 "2010-03-20T04:38:15Z")
Charles Addams: “Death ray, fiddlesticks. Why, it doesn’t even slow them down!” ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [March 20, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/68 "2010-03-20T23:32:17Z")
[This makes me laugh like an idiot](http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/nn210/hrhomer/1269013567866.jpg). Joe ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [March 21, 2010, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/69 "2010-03-21T01:08:00Z")
> [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](#): > > Charles Addams: “Death ray, fiddlesticks. Why, it doesn’t even slow them down!” Huh. [Link](http://www.wunderland.com/WTS/Rash/misc/addams.htm). ---
**Author:** ![Shadowfyre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfyre/32/9972_2.png) [@Shadowfyre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shadowfyre)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2010, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294/70 "2010-03-23T19:33:11Z")
I like the comic In The Bleachers. Some of them are rather meh, but here are a couple I have printed out and put on my cubical wall. [First one.](http://www.gocomics.com/inthebleachers/2004/03/16) [Second one.](http://www.gocomics.com/inthebleachers/2004/07/15) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/post-other-great-non-far-side-cartoons/532294.md?page=3)