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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!

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2026-05-31 (discuss.online)

submitted 5 months ago by m_f@discuss.online to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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“Egad! … What a hideous creature!”

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[–] GoldenDeLorean@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

That's not the joke, offended iPad-baby.

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[–] everett@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

What's the joke, then?

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

They are calling something ugly while they are themselves ugly.

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[–] everett@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

I think that's pretty close to the original comment that got downvoted. "Look at these ugly people..." is the common denominator, while they didn't call out the "...who are hypocrites" part.

Still feels like crude moral judgment on ugly people, which pops up in The Far Side too often. Another recent example, specifically how Larson draws the imbeciles' physical characteristics.

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

I agree, and don't think we should pile on ugly people. I don't want people to give me shit for my failings, and despite the fact that ugly people are the ones mostly talking shit about I, we should still not pick on the ugly.

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