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The Far side returns... Does it ever leave you???

The first of the new comics features bears, aliens, and taxidermy. The style is comfortably familiar, with two large exceptions: instead of watercolor, the new comics are done in digital brushstrokes that make the images feel more volumetric and vibrant than the original full-color cartoons. Larson is now using a digital tablet. After years of frustration dealing with clogged pens and dried-up markers, Larson decided to give digital a chance...

"I simply had no idea how far these things had evolved; then the first thing I drew was a caveman."

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