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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 !BelloBear@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/bellobearofficial
Bloom County !bloomcounty@lemm.ee https://lemm.ee/c/bloomcounty
Calvin and Hobbes !calvinandhobbes@lemmy.world https://lemmy.world/c/calvinandhobbes
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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Looks like the nays have it and I'll keep posting the comics with the caption in the image, as before. I've added a number to the title for making it easy to differentiate between each strip (which will aid in scripting the posting).
What do people think of that? If that's also too much I can go back to just the date for the title.
My recommendation would be to keep the website published date as the title. Having the original publication date would give to much context to the timeless strip.
I'm not sure we need numberings in the title, unless the original published comics had them.
If searchability is the problem that needs solved, then a tagging system would work. Stuff like "cow, hammer, car accident" but this would be cumbersome for a title. Lemmy should have a separate system for that. I've never checked, if there is a feature request forum for lemmy, user generated tags would make lemmy the best user generated content platform to search on.
Ftr, thanks so much for running this community! And thanks for your consistency with the daily posts!
Thanks, I appreciate hearing it!