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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:

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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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A tragedy occurs off the coast of a land called Honah-Lee.

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 15 hours ago

I have at one point seen every Far Side comic, and I only got the joke and maybe one out of every 10 at most, probably one out of every 20 or 40. There was one I really thought was funny where God had the Earth in an aquarium and he had like shakers with blacks Mexicans whites Asians Africans, and then he was sprinkling another one called jerks and he said just to make an interesting.

[–] Ashiette@lemmy.world 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)
[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 9 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"lived by the sea...🎶"

But not anymore.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

That whole era of 1970s movies, I'm pretty sure everyone involved in writing/producing/directing those movies were on some of the wildest recreational drugs.

[–] Atelopus-zeteki@fedia.io 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Little Jackie Paper sure loved that Dragon, Puff

You just funny hear about ceiling wax any more.

[–] ninjabard@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Gonna need a whole bunch of Dawn

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago

You gonna need so much Dawn it'll wrap around to include Dusk!