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It's curious that of all the famous American syndicated strips, only The Far Side, and maybe Garfield, seem to have bridged the Atlantic divide to the UK. Mayb
by dingaling 11mo ago
It's curious that of all the famous American syndicated strips, only The Far Side, and maybe Garfield, seem to have bridged the Atlantic divide to the UK.
Maybe C&H and Peanuts were just too rooted in US suburban family culture. Dilbert had a niche following here and beyond that I struggle to even name another strip.
- rullelito 11mo agoI think it was quite big in Sweden.
- hocuspocus 11mo agoWhen I was a kid, C&H strips were translated and published by the main newspaper in Geneva. The "complete" box set is the first thing I ordered from Amazon US as a teenager, in 2000 or 2001 iirc.
- HeinzStuckeIt 11mo agoStrangely, The Far Side is even known here and there on the European continent in translation, even though so many of the jokes depend on English puns that the translators don’t even attempt to work with. The result is weird and inexplicable, but that creates a humor of its own, even if it is different from what Gary Larson intended.
- detritus 11mo agoNot my experience - my father had questionable taste in newspapers, but the daily express ran C&H and we had all of the compendia.