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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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[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This has me imagining music made by a banjo and those "sproing" sounds (don't know how else to describe it).

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] Murdoc@sh.itjust.works 3 points 10 months ago

Not quite what I was thinking of, but wow! I love creative stuff like this.

[–] holycrap@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

The lyrics weren't made by a door stopper.

[–] PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wait a minute, you mean the internet LIED to me?!?

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

No, MJ was a doorstop. OP was mistaken.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 1 points 10 months ago

There's just no pleasing some people.

[–] Cap@kbin.social 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This made me laugh out loud at a restaurant on my birthday.

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

Happy birthday!

[–] PreviouslyAmused@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

This has made me literally laugh out loud for 35+ years. Thanks g to or sharing it and reminding me of the beautiful absurdist humor of Gary Larson