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:

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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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ROSCOE June 2, 1979 CAUGHT HIS OWN TAIL

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“Zorak, you idiot! You’ve mixed incompatible species in the earth terrarium!”

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Hannibal’s first attempt

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“I’ll just take this, thank you! … And knock off that music!”

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CONDIMENT DANCE TONIGHT

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The untold ending to the fable, “The Grasshopper and the Ant.”

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GRAIN

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2025-05-29 (infosec.pub)
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“Hey! What’s this, Higgins? Physics equations? ... Do you enjoy your job here as a cartoonist, Higgins?”

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The Snakes of War

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Okay, you guys -- if we're gonna take that hill, we'll have to do it an inch at a time, flat on our bellies, wriggling thru the mud... Think you morons can handle that?

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“If there’re monsters moving in next door, Danny, you just ignore them. The more you believe in them, the more they’ll try to get you.”

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“I’m serious this time, Norton. … Get the theme from Mr. Ed out of your system or I’ll kill you as you sleep!”

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16th-century Mona wanna-bes

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Four woman standing in front of simple medievel buildings, dressed in plain black Italian Renaissance style dresses, wearing long wavy hair and looking off in the distance.

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2025-05-28 (infosec.pub)
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At the Old Cartoonists’ Home

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Oh, yeah? I once drew a nose that must have been this big!

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Monster jobs

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Dang! Look at the time! … And I gotta be in little Billy Harrison’s closet before nightfall!

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Scenes from classic nature films

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You know how to kill a pig, don't you Steve?.. You just put your coils together and squeeeeze. Private Eye

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Neanderthal creativity

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BONG! BONG! BONG!

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“What’d I tell you, Blanche? Her place always smells like a house.”

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2025-05-27 (infosec.pub)
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“Dang! Wouldn’t ya know it? … The only waterhole for a hundred miles, and dabsmack in the middle is a giant squid.”

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“Bummer, Rusty. … Seven years bad luck—of course, in your case, that works out to be 49 years.”

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The mark of Deero

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Norm's Hunting Lodge

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“Whoa! … Wrong room.”

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203 1. Social u 2. relationships

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Luckily, Eddie had stumbled upon a rare variety of deadly nightshade, the amicable Atropa belladonna congenialocus. (Later that same day, however, he blundered into some poison oak—a flat-out intolerant species.)

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Hold on there, son … You best find some other berries to eat … And put that sweater on before you catch cold.

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Hello, there … I’m Ernie and this is my little pal Gus. Welcome to our island! / Watch out, Mister! Ernie’s mad! … He’ll eat you first chance he gets! / Oh, he’s just jokin’ around … ha ha … pay no attention. / No joke! He ate that German guy last year! / Shut up, Gus! … So, what’s your name, friend? / He’s mad! Mad, I tell you!

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“Quit school? Quit school? You wanna end up like your father—a career lab rat?”

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Dial-a-Cat

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Hello... I'm a big, fat Siamese with a broken leg and no teeth and I'm sitting here on my front porch with no place to run or hide... in broad daylight...

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“Well, that does it for my tomatoes.”

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When careers and allergies collide

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