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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] 21 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Why is it posted with the post-date in the title and not (like the Calvin and Hobbes or Garfield for example) the date from when it was made or published?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

That's when it was reposted on the official website. There's random ones everyday, like the old calenders.

You can see the original date on the comic itself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Okay thanks for the explanation, still is weird IMO, is it done by some script or something that makes it difficult to use the original date?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

It's just copy/pasted from here (link is in the sidebar).

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago

This has always been one of my favourites.