this post was submitted on 25 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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[–] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] everett@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] ringwraithfish@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Bless both of you for the context!

[–] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you for providing the other crucial piece of the puzzle

[–] Lauchs@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is rapidly becoming one of my favourite communities in large part for these explanations.

Thanks!

[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Larson is/was adored by the science community for making science a bit more accessible and interesting. Now the same cartoons are helping to teach history.

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

Too smart to be a descendant of this idiot...

[–] Loid@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

She's not stupid, she's a French protestor.

[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This cow is handy with tools.

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I understood this reference but not the cartoon.

[–] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe you lack something in sophistication?

[–] not_woody_shaw@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Like a cow?