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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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[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Designed by…

I’m sorry, I can’t, the fruit is hanging so low it’s touching ground.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Replace it with “door falls off” and it’s not too far from the truth.

[–] troyunrau@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

But how did it affect their stock price?

[–] Ironfacebuster@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

The fruit hasn't been cleared for flight so all it can do is touch the ground

[–] Varyk@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 month ago

that switch is maybe my favorite thing ever drawn in the far side.

so funny, I still think about it occasionally.

[–] Illecors@lemmy.cafe 8 points 1 month ago

I saw "fall off" and immediately thought of this aussie gold 😁

[–] style99@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I was about to say "insert obligatory Boeing joke here," but I see we've got that covered. 👍️

[–] PapaStevesy@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

One of my all-time favorites, second only to the penguin that slipped on the banana peel.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 5 points 1 month ago

Ah... remember when this stuff used to sound fake?

[–] problematicPanther@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

I love the way he draws hands.