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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:

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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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[–] Nusm@lemm.ee 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This requires Norm McDonald’s moth joke:

https://youtu.be/jJN9mBRX3uo?si=yXu19Qvvac_jAfM7

A moth goes into a podiatrist’s office, and the podiatrist says, “What seems to be the problem, moth?”

The moth says “What’s the problem? Where do I begin, man? I go to work for Gregory Illinivich, and all day long I work. Honestly doc, I don’t even know what I’m doing anymore. I don’t even know if Gregory Illinivich knows. He only knows that he has power over me, and that seems to bring him happiness. But I don’t know, I wake up in a malaise, and I walk here and there… at night I…I sometimes wake up and I turn to some old lady in my bed that’s on my arm. A lady that I once loved, doc. I don’t know where to turn to. My youngest, Alexendria, she fell in the…in the cold of last year. The cold took her down, as it did many of us. And my other boy, and this is the hardest pill to swallow, doc. My other boy, Gregarro Ivinalititavitch… I no longer love him. As much as it pains me to say, when I look in his eyes, all I see is the same cowardice that I… that I catch when I take a glimpse of my own face in the mirror. If only I wasn’t such a coward, then perhaps…perhaps I could bring myself to reach over to that cocked and loaded gun that lays on the bedside behind me and end this hellish facade once and for all…Doc, sometimes I feel like a spider, even though I’m a moth, just barely hanging on to my web with an everlasting fire underneath me. I’m not feeling good."

And so the doctor says, “Moth, man, you’re troubled. But you should be seeing a psychiatrist. Why on earth did you come here?”

And the moth says, “‘Cause the light was on."

[–] blackluster117@possumpat.io 1 points 1 year ago

I'm crying right now, thank you for this. The world got a little dimmer without Norm.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

a few more circles around the fire

Huh, a year is a circle around a giant fire...are we moths?

[–] majcurve@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Always has been

👩‍🚀 🔫

[–] don@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Well, we both certainly came from the same place… 👆out there.

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

I don't remember this strip at all. I love finding works by Gary Larson I've never seen before.

[–] Nusm@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He’s making new ones (periodically and on no particular schedule) at thefarside.com, so this may be one of the new ones.

[–] Otakulad@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The copyright says 1990 but thanks for letting me know.

[–] Nusm@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

Oh. Oh yeah. 🤷🏻‍♂️

My old eyes didn’t see that tiny little text on the side.