"We decided to award this project to Michelangelo. You know, the sculptor that hates painting and begged us to let him work on a Moses sculpture on a tomb instead, and escaped several times only to be brought back in chains until the project was completed. It's in great hands and won't have hidden imagery at all."
Mr. Funucci went on to create the next great Italian masterpiece: pizza. In a fit of rage after losing the contract, marinara was thrown at dough (which landed in cheese and salami), then pelted at the side of a wood fired oven. He would hate Michelangelo until his death at the hands of a Tuscan boar later that year. The boar was tried and found guilty, which is why a Funucci always comes with bacon.
I have been reading The Far Side for years and I own every book. I have no memory of this strip. Thank you for sharing.
I feel like I’m missing the connection Mr. Funucci has with the joke or Michelangelo… can anyone elucidate it for me?
Pretty sure he's just a fake guy made up for the sake of the comic.
The Far Side
Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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