1973 / Ebook / 96 pages / UK/USA
**
Pisses about with the format as successfully as they did on TV (personal favourite being the blood-stained Teach Yourself Surgery page), with commendably little rehashing, it's just a shame that the actual content is so unreadable. Notably ruder than they could get away with on telly, but I prefer them reined in and cheeky.
Gary Larson, The Far Side
1980-82 (collected 1982) / Ebook / 104 pages / USA
My experience of the medium being limited to Garfield and Charles Addams, these daily cartoons were a lot funnier than I expected and excused when they're not. Alternately philosophical, surreal for its own sake and inappropriately dark for a mass morning audience, the sense of world building is even more incentive to carry on.
1991 / Ebook / 96 pages / Canada/USA
**
Occasionally amusing and mildly interesting as a tie-in to the elusive TV forebear of the film. That gives it a rich seam of material to draw from, yet it's still repetitive and padded to hell. At least it clarifies how to spell 'shyeah.'
1993 / Ebook / 126 pages / UK
*
The predecessor to The Log met my expectations, and the transitions from Craig's observations to the completely different writing style of his co-writer were just as seamless. It was an Abandonedread until I realised I had enough shit comedy books to make a blog post, then I was contractually bound to finish the bastard.
1999 / Ebook / 96 pages / UK
**
A pastiche of children's annuals that's indistinguishable at times, while still being as authentically perplexing as the show that I've never been able to decide whether I actually like. Likely to have soured a few millennial Christmases, I enjoyed the post-its page anyway.
