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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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[–] 200ok@lemmy.world 10 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I wonder what the age cut off is for recognizing that this is a Popeye reference.

Or do kids these days still learn about Popeye?

Popeye the sailor man, toot toot!

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My kid doesn't know who bugs bunny is.

He was born 2014

[–] EnderLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My kid from '15 LOVES Bugs Bunny.

[–] Black_Gulaman@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I tried introducing bugs after. But they were never interested.

[–] EnderLaw@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago

There are some point clips on YouTube. I just put them on the TV and let them run. One eventually caught his attention.

[–] JimVanDeventer@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago

I like the implication that the theme music is diegetic. Like he is incapable of playing hide and seek because you can hear music coming from him.

[–] CCF_100@sh.itjust.works 2 points 8 months ago