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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 [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

His new stuff is crazy. He makes it in procreate on an iPad, after one of his grandkids gave him one. It’s still very much his style, but it’s a much newer and updated version of that style. I think it’s really cool.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

TIL. I had no idea. Is there a lot of this new style? I am not really in touch with his career even though I absolutely love his cartoons/humor.

[–] usualsuspect191 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

There's also some newer comics he's drawn that aren't shown in that gallery, like this one:

He seems to want to keep things locked down in general for some reason. There's also no archive online of all the old strips, and the site only keeps the last few days of the daily strips.