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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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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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“Henry! Hurry or you’re gonna miss it—ghost riders in the kitchen!”

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[–] m_f@discuss.online 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Some background on this comic:

Transcript:

Sometimes, when you stay up too late at night trying to think of something funny, these things happen. Except to say that it's obviously inspired by "Ghost Riders in the Sky," I haven't the slightest idea what "Ghost Riders in the Kitchen" means. I'll figure it out one day. (I should have followed up the next day with "Ghost Riders in the Living Room.")

Also, mildly interesting to note that the original doesn't depict the ghosts as transparent, but somebody colored it in at some point and added that. Probably easier to do with colors vs B&W.

[–] Bonus@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 week ago
[–] aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

“Yippie-kay-yayyy… Yippie-kay-yooo…”

[–] zabadoh@ani.social 3 points 1 week ago

Herding the spirits in haunted steaks and beef jerky, no doubt.