this post was submitted on 18 Sep 2023
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The Far Side

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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

Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!

Ps. Sub to all my comic strip communities:

Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield !garfield@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side !thefarside@sh.itjust.works https://lemmy.world/c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

Fine print: All comics I post are freely available online. In no way am I claiming ownership, copyright or anything else. This is a not for profit community, we just want to enjoy our comics, thank you.

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[–] paganhobbit@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

THANK YOU! I've wondered about this one since I was a kid.

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Glory Glory Man United?

[–] jopepa@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

🎵 His hose is really loooong.🎶

[–] ChicoSuave@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

It's got one note to hit: referencing the old song John Brown's Body. The rest of the panel is expanding on the fender shop. It's not too deep but its a Farside so it's expected.

[–] captaincoupi@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Here's Pete Seeger - released in 1959 if that helps

[–] spacecowboy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Madison420@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

John Brown's body, it's a song about an great abolitionist. (I won't spoil it, it's best to read on your own.)

[–] Dadifer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't get it! Did he hit his thumb?

[–] tabularasa@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Side note: Great reggae band.