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“What is this? … Some kind of cruel hoax?”
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ACME MANNEQUIN CO.
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!
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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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“Let’s not overreact, Agnes. ... For one thing, it was only a dud.”
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POLARIS
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“Oh, no! I have several others—Oggy here is just a tad aggressive, so he has to stay in a cage.”
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Embedded in Styrofoam “shoes,” Carl is sent to “sleep with the humans.”
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“Ha! Figured you might try escapin’, Bert—so I just took the liberty of removin’ your horse’s brain.”
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SHERIFF
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“Hey! Ernie Wagner! I haven’t seen you in, what’s it been—twenty years? And hey—you’ve still got that thing growin’ outta your head that looks like a Buick!”
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“Well, I dunno, Warren … I think your feet may be uglier than mine.”
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Awkward moments in the ant world
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Hey, Doug!.. Good to see you again! / Uh-oh … what’s this guy’s name?.. Think!
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I love the way you do that, Angela … Oh, yes! … Yes, yes, yes!
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“Be patient, Leona, be patient. … Zebras won’t take a drink until they know it’s absolutely safe.”
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“I’ve got an idea. … How many here have ever seen Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds ?”
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“That’s not funny, Malcolm! There will be no more floating belly-up on the surface!”
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"Did you detect something a little ominous in the way they said, ‘See you later’?"
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NINA PINTA SANTA MARIA
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“Say, there’s something wrong here. … We may have to move shortly.”
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DANGER QUICKSAND
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“Puuuuut the caaaaaat ouuuuuuuuut. … Puuuuut the caaaaat ouuuuuuut. …”
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Goaded on by their respective gangs, the leaders of the Hamster Demons and the Parakeet Devils square off.
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ARAKEETS / HAMS / TOMATOS
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Dreaming he’s falling, Jerry forgets the well-known “always-wake-up-before-you-land” rule.
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WUMP!
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