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[-] m_f@discuss.online 20 points 3 days ago

Some background on this comic:

Transcript of relevant bits:

In my first year or so of drawing The Far Side, I was scared to death of making mistakes in the artwork. Incredibly, I had never heard of a product called "White Out" (for covering up mistakes) and the smallest screw-up meant starting over. So, as I've indicated under each of these cartoons, I sometimes left things out

This is interesting. I have no idea where this guy's legs are

[-] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

He has legs in the OP comic though

[-] m_f@discuss.online 2 points 6 hours ago

They've fixed a lot of stuff like that in the comics they post each day to the site and which get posted here. See here for where they changed the text since he wrote about it:

https://discuss.online/comment/13908640

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The style of this one, and some others, really reminds me of Gahan Wilson's work. It must be the early ones.

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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

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