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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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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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Literally the first funny one I've seen and it's a banger.
I don't know what are these, just see them in my feed. At first I thought they followed a story because they were weird when I consider them individually. But sometimes they are funny, I can see that lately.
Individual cartoons, originally published in the 80s in newspapers, like Family Circus. Artist is Gary Larson, strip is called The Far Side.
Mostly absurdist humor with some old references dotted in, like this one which references the stereotypical "cement shoes" mobsters used to send people to "sleep with the fishes." The phrase sleep with the fishes originated in the 1800s (or was first recorded then, anyway), but it was popularized by the movie The Godfather. The joke here is simply the opposite of that phrase, and the concept of a fish mafia.
I saw them in the newspaper in the 90s (along with Family Circus, Garfield, etc), so either those were reprints or he was still active then.
Ended in '95 specifically but did get reprints in some papers iirc so could've been either.
JUST found out though he started again on thefarside.com!!