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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
this post was submitted on 18 Apr 2025
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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!
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Remember newspapers?
Back in the day, daily editions would have a page of comic strips. with extra large strips in color on Sundays.
When I read newspapers in the 80s, most of the strips nationally syndicated
In my local paper, the SF Chronicle, we had a national-turned-local strip Travels With Farley, then later just Farley
Today's strip parodies several syndicated strips that were popular at that time:
A lot of these were just unfunny, particularly IMO Blondie, Marmaduke, Family Circus, Lockhorns. And much of Garfield.
They are worthy of much deserved parody !garfieldism@lemmy.blahaj.zone Dysfunctional Family Circus and so forth...
I hear a lot of those long-running strips had some merit when they first came out, but became shit over the decades of publication, changing artists, etc. You can read about these in their respective Wikipedia entries.
Garfield was never meant to be an amazing strip, Jim Davis has said he just wanted to create a comic strip that would make him rich, and it succeeded at that goal. Older Garfield still has its moments though, as @ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee noticed:
https://discuss.online/post/18096043
Since then, I've noticed the laziness too in the newer strips, like this one that's 3 identical panels:
https://discuss.online/post/18148911
Thank you for this. I was trying to guess the names of the comics. The one you typed as Barstuffed is supposed to say Garstuffed.
I was just copying the text that the OP had posted, but you're right that is a "G"
And I was just copying it from the alt text on the original image 😄 The quality of the alt text has not been great, but worth posting IMO. One of Wednesday's strips wouldn't have really made sense without it, since they removed the text in the drawing for some reason:
https://discuss.online/post/18563273
He put a lot of work into those alternative titles, and they're all good! I like how he included his own.