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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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[–] zeusbottom@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Looking at this, it occurs to me that no one has made a good pocket protector joke in a long time, probably because protectors are all but extinct.

It makes sense, but I never thought about it until now.

[–] BlueLineBae@midwest.social 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think people realized that instead of putting pens in your pocket, you can just put them everywhere else! Pens everywhere the eye can see!!!!!

Can confirm, I've misplaced enough pens that there's always one within reach.

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

pouch protectors

[–] x4740N@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are those glasses or are they the eyes

[–] thecrotch@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

Pocket protectors cost more than most of my shirts

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Well, I have one or two pockets to keep my pens in as well ...