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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!

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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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“Hey! You kids! … Can’t you read?”

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STAY OFF THE DOG

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

The submitted version of this cartoon is seen here on the left. My editor, however, believed something more was needed to clarify why this guy coming out of the house is so mad―so he changed the caption to the version on the right. I acquiesced on this one, but always felt like it was redundant and too leading. I later restored my preferred version for inclusion in a book.

[–] davidgro@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (1 children)

That's the one the editor forced to be clearer‽

It's the one Larson agreed to while his editor begged on hands and knees

[–] Reverendender@sh.itjust.works 8 points 6 days ago

OG version is better