Far Side Cartoon Featuring the Grasshopper and Ant.” · Carlson Fable Collection

Title: Far Side Cartoon Featuring the Grasshopper and Ant.”
Description: 1990 Far Side Cartoon Featuring the Grasshopper and Ant.” Gary Larson. Newspaper clippings. 3 copies, all apparently from the Omaha World-Herald. Universal Press Syndicate. Unknown sources.

The cartoon asks what might have happened after the fable’s usual ending, which has the ant shutting out the freezing, starving grasshopper. Here the grasshopper kills the ant with his violin and marches off with a bag of grain. Is he waving good-bye? An online entry says that the cartoon was originally published in 1988.
Date: 1990
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