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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 [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial

Bloom County [email protected] https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty

Calvin and Hobbes [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes

Cyanide and Happiness !cyanideandhappiness https://lemm.ee/c/cyanideandhappiness

Garfield [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/garfield

The Far Side [email protected] https://lemmy.world/c/[email protected]

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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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Finally, Ernie has everything he needs to blackmail the warden

It's all coming together

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Was there some sort of topical even that would make this funnier?

[–] SaucySnake 60 points 1 month ago (2 children)

File hidden in a cake is some sort of trope, the prisoner files through the bars and escapes.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But instead they hid a filing cabinet in a pie, which is ridiculous and unhelpful (AFAIK, paperwork is allowed in prison).

I thought it was funny.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

OTOH, the prisoner has glasses and is balding, making him look professorial.

So maybe this is actually the file that he wanted.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Aha, that makes sense. I can see the humor now.