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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!
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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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“I know you miss the Wainwrights, Bobby, but they were weak and stupid people—and that’s why we have wolves and other large predators.”
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Forest violence
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Let’s cut him in half and count his rings! / Nawww … . Let’s drive holes in him and drain the sap! / Turn him into pulp, if you want my opinion. / Limb him!
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“Looks like this place has been pretty much sucked over.”
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“Well, don’t bring the filthy things in here, you imbecile! … Take ’em down to the lake!”
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“Andrew … the cows have come home.”
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TAXI
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“Well, that does it! … Tomorrow he dies.”
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Another sighting of the Loch Ness dog
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Butterflies from the wrong side of the meadow
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Eat Pollen and Die! / Bernie Schnaubel is a Moth! / So’s your mother. GE FL
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“Wait! Wait! Here’s another one—the screams of a man lost in the woods.”
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In its more horrific method of retribution, the mob will sometimes dress victims as mimes, place them in glass boxes, and let them perish slowly in full view of the public.
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“Well, just look at you, Jimmy! ... Soaking wet, hair mussed up, shoes untied ... and take that horrible thing out of your mouth!”
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“Crimony! Every night you ask me what’s for dinner and every night I say the same thing: ‘Moths, moths, moths!’”
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“Food’s okay … I just can’t get used to the atmosphere.”
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Master Me and Rex took the kar to town. Stay home! Stay!! Ha ha ha ha the dog
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“I would have gotten away scot-free if I had just gotten rid of the evidence. ... But, shoot—I’m a pack rat.”
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“Well, wouldn’t you know it! … There goes our market for these things!”
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ACME SIGN CO. / THE END OF THE WORLD IS COMING / THE END
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“What a lovely home, Edna! … And look at the fresh newspaper, Stanley!”
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“Well, here comes Stanley now. ... Good heavens! What’s he caught this time?”
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