this post was submitted on 02 May 2024
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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 [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago (1 children)

This is my favorite Garfield (without Garfield) comic.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I love those. But I think this one might actually have Garfield in it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Well now I'm getting all philosophical about it. Is it still Garfield if he's partially digested? Where does Garfield end and snake begin? Maybe it really is Garfield (without Garfield) after all. I know I've ruined it either way.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

While the Heathcliff variant is more prevalent on Lemmy, Garfield Minus Garfield does exist and is highly enjoyable. I haven't checked, but I suspect it inspired the Heathcliff one.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Yes, thank you. If you see my other comment I mentioned it and saw that the original Garfield cartoonist nicely gave it their blessing as well.

Perhaps we should lobby someone to post the Garfield variant!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I apologize for missing your other comment, but isn't posting the Garfield variant something I already did?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, has it been posted in the comics sub before? I have missed it if so.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I think at least one of us is confused. I apologize if I was unclear at some point.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

The continuation of the comic wars.

Previously there was a comic about Snoopy flying his dog house being shot down by a fighter pilot.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Should've eaten Heathcliff too.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

*Jon

Not sure why that bothered me...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I'm sorry, sugar_in_your_tea

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What an incomprehensible comic. I don’t understand how a snake could grow to that size or why a cow would be named “Garfie.”

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago (1 children)

To be fair you need a pretty high IQ to understand Garfield. The humour is extremely subtle, and without a solid grasp of feline studies most of the jokes will go over a typical viewer's head.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Haha lasagna