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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 !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

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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COMICS REPORTEDLY GETTING SMALLER

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[–] zabadoh@ani.social 16 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So "comics getting smaller" was actually a real thing.

Collectively across the US, the daily newspapers shrunk the size of comic strips, which freed up more precious page space for other things like ads, or in rare cases, more comic strips.

Comic strips are an expense for a newspaper, so having them take up less space was a common practice.

Eventually with declining readership, and especially younger readers, and corporate buyouts of local newspapers, many papers eliminated their comics page altogether.

[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

There's a great Bloom County Sunday strip where Opus is dreaming they're on the Enterprise, and Scotty is shrinking the comics, "All except Doonesbury - it won't budge!" But they shrink into a black dot.

[–] 7112@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

"Iran goes ... President... "

Wonder when this was published? Carter or Bush ?

[–] LemmyBe@lemmy.world 14 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Published in 1988 (upper-right), so that would be Reagan.

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 13 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Late 80s, so that would be the Iran-Contra affair aka the Ollie North hearings that were widely watched, back before cable TV was Balkanized by Fox News.

[–] 7112@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

Totally missed that date. Thanks guys!

[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago