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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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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“And see this ring right here, Jimmy? … That’s another time when the old fellow miraculously survived some big forest fire.”

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Editor's note: This is a special cartoon Gary drew for Earth Day 1990, as part of a project in which many cartoonists participated to bring more awareness to the state of the environment.

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Nature, Mother

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Once again, a meeting between management and the Plutonium Truckers’ Union grows tense.

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A tragedy occurs off the coast of a land called Honah-Lee.

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TRANSOIL

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“Oh, sure—white whales. … We’ve got plenty of them.”

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SAVE THE WHALES

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Bob's Straw Delivery / City Center Exit 1/2 Mile / Oh,man... I've been away too long.

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“I’m sorry, we did call an exterminator … but we’ve changed our minds.”

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AL’S RAT CONTROL / WELCOME

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Slowly he would cruise the neighborhood, waiting for that occasional careless child who confused him with another vendor.

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The Vaccination Man

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“You’ll never get away with this!”

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As the flock of monarchs, in a silent burst of black and gold, rose from the puddle’s edge, a sudden “crack” knifed through the still morning air. A spider’s shotgun had found its mark.

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All Right!

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How we see flowers / How they see themselves

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Leona Helmsley of the Paleozoic

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And all of you have been slacking off lately … I tell you, you just can't find good hunters and gatherers anymore.

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“Hit the bird, Ruth—he’s stuck.”

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(musical notes)

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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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“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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