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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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5 January 2024 (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 24 points 10 months ago

Gary Larson is like Rumpelstiltskin, because he can spin hay into comedy gold

[–] nadiaraven@lemmy.world 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I saw this one when I was a fundie kid and did not get it...now it makes sense!

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

I actually didn't get it until this comment.

[–] ooklamok@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

I want to take you to a hay bar, hay bar, hay bar!

[–] omgarm@feddit.nl 7 points 10 months ago

I actually didn't get it until this comment.

[–] Wooster@startrek.website 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

On top of the revelation everyone else is having about this comic, I’m noting that Vera is, ostensibly, a chick.

Gotta appreciate the layers.

[–] synae@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 10 months ago

I wonder if this inspired the Simpsons gag