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2026-09-19 #0 (lemmy.nz)

submitted 3 days ago by m_f@discuss.online to c/thefarside@sh.itjust.works

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“Well, what the? … I thought I smelled something.”

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[-] m_f@discuss.online 15 points 3 days ago

Some background on this comic:

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I opened the newspaper one day, and The Far Side on the left is what I saw. The version I submitted, however, is on the right. As you can see, there's a subtle difference

Normally, when a syndicate editor feels compelled to alter a caption, he or she contacts the cartoonist and the changes are discussed. No one contacted me about this one, however, and I cringed when I read the new, wimpy caption. In cases like this, I prefer cartoons be rejected altogether rather than "softened" in their impact

My editor only did this a few times, and, when the cartoon came up for inclusion in a book, I had the original caption reinstated

[-] tyranny@crazypeople.online 4 points 2 days ago

Gary Larson: the biggest victim of censorship

this post was submitted on 19 Sep 2026

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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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