Gary Larson’s The Far Side: Hell and Coffee
Gary Larson’s iconic comic strip The Far Side, which ran from 1980 to 1994, featured several single-panel comics that play with the nature of hell, the devil, and punishment. They often do so in a semi-Dantean fashion, where punishment is doled out ironically. One strip, which was reprinted in 1995’s The Far Side, Gallery 5, featured the damned roaming aimlessly around a flaming cavern, whipped by devils as they refill mugs of coffee from an urn. The caption reads “Oh, man! The coffee’s cold! They thought of everything!”
Contributed by Leslie Zarker Morgan
Gary Larson’s The Far Side: Hell and Back
Gary Larson’s iconic comic strip The Far Side, which ran from 1980 to 1994, frequently featured hell, devils, Satan, and various forms of infernal punishment, often in Dantean fashion. In one panel, Larson illustrates a projector slide reel of the recent vacation photos of a couple. Showing a picture of a grinning Satan with his arm around a sunglasses-and-beachwear-clad woman standing in front of a raging fire, the man narrates, “Oh! Now this is from last summer, when Helen and I went to hell and back.”
Contributed by Dennis Looney
