In my first year or so of drawing The Far Side, I was scared to death of making mistakes in the artwork. Incredibly, I had never heard of a product called “White Out” (for covering up mistakes) and the smallest screw-up meant starting over. So, as I’ve indicated under each of these cartoons, I sometimes left things out
This is interesting. I have no idea where this guy’s legs are
They’ve fixed a lot of stuff like that in the comics they post each day to the site and which get posted here. See here for where they changed the text since he wrote about it:
Some background on this comic:
Transcript of relevant bits:
He has legs in the OP comic though
They’ve fixed a lot of stuff like that in the comics they post each day to the site and which get posted here. See here for where they changed the text since he wrote about it:
https://discuss.online/comment/13908640
The style of this one, and some others, really reminds me of Gahan Wilson’s work. It must be the early ones.