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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16 January 2024 (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 9 months ago by MrSebSin@sh.itjust.works to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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[–] FiniteLooper@lemm.ee 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

So I have the daily calendar and this was today’s. I had to look it up and came up with this from here: https://cidu.info/2022/02/17/and-a-tip-of-the-hat-to-billy-sutton-in-tampa/

If you’re wondering why Gary Larson penned a special message to a Tampa resident in today’s Far Side cartoon (on the back page of this section), wonder no more.

Bill Sutton, who Larson sends a “thanx and tip o’ the hat to” is a fictional person made up to imitate a cartoon called They’ll Do It Every Time by James Hatlo. Hatlo’s readers often supplied him with material, and when he used an idea, he thanked the contributor in the corner of the drawing. “Thanx, and with a tip o’ the Hatlo hat to . . . ,” he would write.

“Gary wasn’t thanking anyone in particular, he was just making fun of those cartoons,” said Universal Press Syndicate editor Jake Morrissey. “It’s a takeoff on the old line. It was kind of a silly cartoon to begin with. That’s the whole point.”

So just the most obscure thing possible

[–] BravoVictor@programming.dev 5 points 9 months ago

Ahh, thank you. I was completely lost on this one…

[–] JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca 1 points 9 months ago

Possibly also a dig at the people who do send him ideas, like, "the day I take a fan suggestion is the day the world explodes."