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Gary Larson saw this and said the mixup made both comics much better
Sep 5, 2026 8:12 PM
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Gary Larson saw this and said the mixup made both comics much better
psstuphere
Google "coincidence" and "Dennis the menace", you will not believe that story
AyatollahBahloni
Published in "The Prehistory of the Far Side."
invisiblemaniac
"Completely by accident." To this day, I am positive that somewhere there is a junior typesetter who has been quietly laughing his ass off for decades.
spontaneous9
Phototypesetting scrolls off the machine in big rolls called "galleys" 9 inches wide; stories, headlines, captions, everything that's in type form, and it's up to the people who actually cut out the various bits of type & paste them to the page to get it right. The graphics would come in from the stat-camera person (darkroom) separately. So it's real easy for this stuff to get swapped, especially if it's just after lunch when the paste-up crew just got done torching up a fat bomber in the alley.
malbec
I dare to dream that this is the case
invisiblemaniac
You'd probably also enjoy the story of James May's (of later Top Gear fame) hidden message in an issue of Autocar that got him fired, if you hadn't heard it already.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_May#Dismissal_from_Autocar