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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:

Bello Bear !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

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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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world 22 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Gary foresaw red-hatted idiots 32 years ago.

We should have listened. 😢

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Came here to make the same comment. Cartoonists are good at getting to the essence of things. Is there something inherent in that personality type that's drawn to the red hat, or is this just coincidence?

[–] groucho@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I dunno, but see also: hardcore Limp Bizket fans in the late 90s.

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 weeks ago

Not the same demographic for sure.

[–] Tempus_Fugit@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

Carlin took notice of groups with hats too.

[–] termaxima@slrpnk.net 2 points 1 week ago

Red contrasts well with green.