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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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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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What's the joke? That dogs like stickmen because they're made of sticks? Or does the humor come from the absurdity of the situation?
I'm trying my best to find these comics funny, but I can't help but feel like I'm either overthinking or underthinking it.
You're overthinking it. The stick man is suing the defendent for making the dog get the "stick." It's dumb funny.
Not his best work in my opinion though, gives a chuckle at best.
If you feel like the joke is going over your head, you’re most likely overthinking it. Farside comics are notoriously silly and simple. For the most famous example, check out the wiki article for “Cow Tools.” It should help put everything into perspective!
A note for anyone stumbling upon these comics for the first time: if you read too much into these, you’re going to walk away confused. If you don’t like that kind of humor, it probably just isn’t for you. I personally find them to be quaint and cozy, but it’s definitely not for everyone.
Hope everyone scrolls long enough to find the one that hits right though!