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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Art assignment: Paint a house on a hillside overlooking a bay or valley. Stay loose; play with color. Try to capture a mood. Think of something to add.

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“Hit the bird, Ruth—he’s stuck.”

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(musical notes)

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“Hold it right there, stranger. We got us a hat-check law in this town … so just take it off niiiiice and slow.”

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SHERIFF

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Medieval chicken coops

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Well, here we go again.

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Harry’s Squid-be-gone / Back in a jiffy

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Ghost newspapers

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COMICS / Deathnuts / Dunesburied / Blondie and Deadwood / Ricky the Roadkilled Squirrel / Barstuffed / The Other Side / Marmadead / For Deader or Even Worse / Family Disasters / The Deadhorns

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“Blast! The controls are jammed! ... We’re headed straight for Mr. Sun!”

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US

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“Listen. I’ve tried to communicate with him, but he’s like a broken record: ‘None of your beeswax, none of your beeswax.’”

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HIVE COUNS

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Dog threat letters

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“Excuse me … I know the game’s almost over, but just for the record, I don’t think my buzzer was working properly.”

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“Hmmmm. … Are the red ants right off the hill?”

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Early spokesmodels

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“Somethin’s in the air, Carl. … The doc’s gettin’ that old twinkle in his eye again.”

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“This is it, Webster. ... We’re onto the secret of migration.”

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“Hey! Hey, you idiots! The train has stopped! … Come on down from there!”

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“Verrrrrrry good, Ernie!”

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In the animal self-help section

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