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That's the way it is on the site. I don't think he'd do it any more, but the older comics were censored like this.
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Ark! Ark!
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after 40 days of rain, the wet dog smell was incredible
https://www.thefarside.com/2026/11/06/4
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Long before his rise to fame, artist Gus Nickerson experimented with many variations on a single theme—until that fateful day when a friend said, “Gus … have you tried dogs playing poker?”
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https://www.thefarside.com/2026/11/06/3
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“We’re in trouble.”
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https://www.thefarside.com/2026/11/06/2
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“Well, we might as well put it on board—although I’m not sure what use we’ll have for a box of rusty nails, broken glass, and throwing darts.”
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https://www.thefarside.com/2026/11/06/1
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“I’ve had it, Doc! I’ve come all the way from Alabama with this danged thing on my knee!”
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https://www.thefarside.com/2026/11/06/0
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“Okay, Jane, this guy you want me to go out with—you say he lives alone, he doesn’t have any friends, and he has a slight frothing problem. … He’s not a rogue, is he?”
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this mushroom said mean things about my mum
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You probably can’t even see the mushroom in panel three ya naughty crims
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Transcript (top sketch):
Foul spirits of the duodenum, be go̲n̲e̲!
Faith Surgeons
Transcript (middle sketch):
Foul and evil spirits that have jammed this saxophone, Begone!
Faith Repairmen
Fair Repairers
Instrument healers
Appliance healers
Transcript (commentary):
I started thinking about faith healers one day and how much obvious humor potential just exuded from these people. I played with these two versions before ending up with the final, as shown.
His costume looks like a KKK robe
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fruit mimes song
Posted the linked Patreon post over here:
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This never worked the way I wanted.
In drawing these employees taking a work break and playing "marbles" with their merchandise, I realized I could never say the words "glass eye" in the caption. The players already know they're glass eyes and would most likely refer to them in a more casual vernacular―such as kids do with marbles with words like puries, steelies, cat's-eyes, etc.
But I couldn't figure out any slang names for various kinds of glass eyes. (Or at least not before my deadline.) Maybe it would have been better if the caption read, "Just a word of warning, Myron―if you miss, I'm coming after your Albino Water Buffalo #709."
Thanks, appreciate hearing it!
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Drawing God in any context, let alone a cartoon, poses some obvious risks.
In the upper left cartoon, I was careful to do two things; First, I made God look the way I think most of us are pretty sure he looks. Secondly, I made sure he was really winning hands down. Even if Norman had only ten points it would have meant that he beat God to the buzzer at least once, and someone would have gotten mad.
"In God's Kitchen" was fairly benign, since the emphasis was mostly on the earth and the suggestion that things aren't quite normal here and why.
I was mostly worried about the last cartoon shown here. Not because of readers, who for the most part found it to be a light and silly drawing, but because I started to feel like I was bucking for a lightning bolt to come out of the sky and turn me into something like the kid here.
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Every time that I've seen a stuffed bear, it's posed in the standard, threatening-like stance. I guess every bear hunter would like to give the impression that this is exactly how the animal was snuffed―seconds before he (the hunter) was to be pulled into that terrible maw.
I think the truth is much more akin to what I've drawn here.
Not the game, but as far as references go, the kid's pajamas have a reference to another PBF comic:
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In my first year or so of drawing The Far Side, I was scared to death of making mistakes in the artwork. Incredibly, I had never heard of a product called "White Out" (for covering up mistakes) and the smallest screw-up meant starting over. So, as I've indicated under each of these cartoons, I sometimes left things out
The fellow coming through the door is incompletely drawn because I feared the lines of his body would interfere with the auditioner's head. Obvious, I choked.
This is interesting. I have no idea where this guy's legs are.
I hate drawing this type of rug because I can never seem to make the concentric circles come out right. I'd get halfway, as shown, and quit.
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Yeats rhymes with gates but he doesn't seem to like rhymes much.
Posted the linked Patreon post over here:
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Transcript (commentary):
I was playing around with the caption on this cartoon before it suddenly dawned on me that it really didn't need one. The story's told by just the scene of a legless cat in a store with a piranha residing nearby in a fishbowl. I also decided to put wooden legs on the cat in the final version, not wanting to make cat fanciers more upset than necessary.
Aquarists, however, loved it.
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Boy, there's no love-loss there…That cat never has
figured out exactly what a pirahna is."forgiven that pirahna."
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