this post was submitted on 22 Mar 2024
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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:

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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] 32 points 8 months ago (2 children)

"Madonna wore a Jean Paul Gaultier bullet bra" is a 34 year old reference.

Ooooooh I just saw this comic was from 1992 and not today.
I thought Gary was reaching deep in the barrel for this'n.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, these posts really should have the original date

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They do, on the comic itself.

The dates line up with the date they're posted to thefarside.com.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I think they're saying OP should edit the title to "22 March 1992".

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

I'm saying the date matches the date on the original source website. That's a simple copy/paste and could be automated, whereas reading the date from the comic would take more effort, and it's easy enough for people to find.

All of these comics are quite old though. The Far Side was active from 1980 - 1996, so all comics would be from that date range.

[–] Squirrel 3 points 8 months ago

Ah, that explains it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Why are the bubbles going downward?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago

Why are the bubbles going downward?

Gas under pressure?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Air forcefully leaving the inflatable raft.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (3 children)

There isn't air on the floor of a life boat

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago

It's the air from the sky above the floor of the raft, obviously.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You win! You outsmarted the comic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Finally, fuck you Larsson, who's obtuse now?!?!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 8 months ago

Thankfully they could just use Madonna as a flotation device

[–] [email protected] -3 points 8 months ago (4 children)

1987 called and wants their memes back.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

That's about when this was drawn. It's a Far Side panel, not a meme

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

1987 called and wants their memes back.

Madonna hadn't even contacted Jean Paul Gaultier until 1989 and she didn't wear the bra this is a reference to until the Blond Ambition World Tour in 1990.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I am learnibg so much about Madonnas bra itt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

1990 called 1992 and wants their comic back*

And then in 2024 it is posted to lemmy, you see it, and forget to read the "published" date and what a "comic" is.