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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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[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)
[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

What's the current popular term for those people? I thought gypsies was what they still went by.

[–] mzesumzira@leminal.space 4 points 8 months ago

I think it's Roma

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Gypsy had always been a derogatory term for ~~Romanian~~ Romani people

[–] GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

They aren’t Romanians just because that sounds similar ffs. The European sinti and roma populations are actually descended from certain regions in India.

[–] Rodeo@lemmy.ca 3 points 8 months ago

You're right! From wikipedia:

The Romani, also spelled Romany or Rromani, colloquially known as the Roma, are an ethnic group of Indo-Aryan origin who traditionally lived a nomadic, itinerant lifestyle. Linguistic and genetic evidence suggests that the Romani originated in the Indian subcontinent; in particular, the region of present-day Rajasthan.

[–] candyman337@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago

Autocorrect is terrible