Gary Larson, “Hell and Coffee”, The Far Side (1980)

Gary Larson’s iconic comic strip The Far Side, which ran from 1980 to 1994, featured several single-panel comics that play with the nature of hell, the devil, and punishment. They often do so in a semi-Dantean fashion, where punishment is doled out ironically.

One strip, which was reprinted in 1995’s The Far Side, Gallery 5, featured the damned roaming aimlessly around a flaming cavern, whipped by devils as they refill mugs of coffee from an urn. The caption reads, “Oh, man! The coffee’s cold! They thought of everything!”

See this and several other hell-themed Larson comics here.

Contributed by Leslie Zarker Morgan