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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:

Bello Bear !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

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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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is absurdly good! I'm surprised I've never seen it before.

[–] gothic_lemons@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't get it. Can you please explain?

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 26 points 1 year ago

From top down:

  1. Big fish eat little fish. This is a common proverb.
  2. The small are steamrollered by the large. This is a mild absurdity, as different sized steamrollers with the same proportions don't exist.
  3. The condiments chasing bread or toast looks like an analogy, but it isn't. Even more absurd with food sprouting cartoony legs to chase each other.
  4. Images from the previous panels are randomly mixed to form a hopelessly undecipherable mishmash. Larson takes the game he's played in his two previous panels to its ultimate conclusion, a fitting punchline to his joke. The surprised bug eyes of the driver accentuate the absurd situation he finds himself in, despite being part of the joke. He's driving the smallest, most absurd version of the steamrollers.
[–] bionicjoey@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 year ago

Seriously! This is peak Far Side nonsense