Summary

  • The Far Side's holiday strips are strange and memorable, adding its quirky humor to Valentine's Day, St. Patrick's Day, Halloween, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
  • The comic deconstructs holiday tropes in a unique and often bizarre way, using anthropomorphized animals and using evocative visuals to offer an off-kilter look at human traditions.
  • The strip's humor comes from presenting the mundane from a surreal perspective, turning familiar traditions and stories on their heads to create hilarious and unexpected scenarios.