Well, you have to admit this has become 90% Larsen, which if you look at the title of the thread, and the ongoing catalog/history of great literate and hilarious New Yorker cartoons, for instance, is kind of absurd. The idea that one dude making mainstreamed absurdy cartoons for the daily paper would be responsible for that % of the funniest ever in history? It’s got to make one think. Or is it me? YMMV.
Bloom County, in honor of election day.
Yes.
And doesn’t make one think either.
Which might be a significant factor in the cleverest cartoon, or the most subtle cartoon, or the most literate cartoon, but doesn’t need to be a criterion for the funniest cartoon.
I think it’s just a matter of you having your taste, and normal people like us having ours. 
I’m not sure if he had any sort of wildlife protection instincts (I remember a collection of his strips were introduced by Jane Goodall), but there were a few cartoons he did that weren’t really laugh out loud but little digs at hunting. Like the elephant wastebasket.
To me that one (The Bear cartoon) was too subtle by half and not funny enough by the other half.
But you know me: I’m this nut who thinks the New Yorker cartoons are funnier than Far Side.
Where is the Bizarro love?
Pushkin:
Well, one collection of his strips WAS titled “Wildlife Preserves”.
Haha. OK. I admit to being a Far Side devotee, but I have to say that is is pretty funny.
My favorite farside
“It’s still hungry and I’ve been stuffing worms into it all day”
Long ago in Los Angeles I bought a postcard with this cartoon by John Callahan. The original caption was, IIRC, Dad, tell us again how you killed us all in a suicidal rage!
Thank you, thank you, thank you! That cartoon is the one I always think of whenever I see this thread’s title. It pleases me to see that someone else liked it as much as I.
Never been able to find one of my all-time favorites, by Beattie, but it is easy to describe
Miserable huddled man in the snowy mountains, facing a large rescue dog: “death seemed preferable to drinking from a barrel covered in frozen dog slobber”
Hope it’s ok to resurrect this thread. My favorite Addams is this one: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c1/3b/7a/c13b7af6aac008ce20a1472b5fb71c24.jpg
I’ve always liked Face painting
mmm
Always been a fan of this Larson: bummer of a birthmark
Apologies if this has already been posted:
I love the Timid Soul. There’s one wherein Caspar is standing on the corner, drenched from the rain, and he says something like: “I’ll wait one more hour, and if he doesn’t show up, he can borrow that $100 from somebody else”.
This is my favorite Far Side.
