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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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[–] Doesntpostmuch@possumpat.io 26 points 6 months ago (2 children)

I love farside, but I have no idea what the joke is here

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 20 points 6 months ago

Some people have intrusive thoughts, some people draw them...

[–] espentan@lemmy.world 18 points 6 months ago

To me it's the absurdity of an old man doing something like this, with the added layer of old men often being grumpy and taking no joy in seeing children having a good time.

[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 16 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Some people go to the fair to have fun, old man Jenkins goes to make sure they don't.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

IDK, I think old man Jenkins is having a blast.

[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 months ago

A happy side effect perhaps?

[–] ambitious_bones@lemmy.world 11 points 6 months ago

Is there a Caption missing here?

[–] MacedWindow@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

The perfect crime

[–] MrJameGumb@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] julianh@lemm.ee 14 points 6 months ago

Far side always gives me the impression that I'm missing the joke, even though I'm usually not

[–] PhoreTwunny@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 months ago

My favorite part is just the totally open vacancy behind the stand. No grills or counters or anything.