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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] 5 points 1 month ago
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

This is a barely recognizable reference to Broom Hilda, the titular witch character in a syndicated American comic strip.

I'm not super-familiar with the strip, but I don't remember the character having any notable fascination with brooms.

Is this a younger Broom Hilda?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure it's just a generic young witch obsessed with the tools of the trade.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Let's agree to disagree on that one.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

I don't understand the hype about them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

"This 'Fantasia' had better not awaken anything in me."