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The Far Side

Gary Larson is one of the typical examples of how a family can play a fundamental role in the artistic aptitudes of a human being.
He said his family has “a morbid sense of humor”, and that he was influenced by the “paranoid” sense of humor of his older brother, Dan. Dan played pranks on Gary, for example by taking advantage of his fear of monsters under the bed by waiting in the closet for the right moment to pounce. Dan “scared the hell out of me” whenever he could, Gary said, but Dan also nurtured Gary’s love of scientific knowledge. They caught animals in Puget Sound and placed them in terrariums in the basement, and also made a small desert ecosystem.

Born in 1950, and raised in University Place, Washington, in suburban Tacoma, US, Gary was working in a music store when he took a few days off, after finally realizing how much he hated his job. During that time, he decided to try cartooning. Today he is known above all for being the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson’s retirement on January 1, 1995, though in September 2019 his website alluded to a “new online era of The Far Side”. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies.

Laugh at me, will they?
Escape
Cat Food
Torture Chamber
“I like it … I like it.”
“The problem, as I see it, is that you both are extremely adept at punishing each other’s buttons”
“Notice all the computations, theoretical scribblings, and lab equipment, Norm. … Yes, curiosity killed these cats.”
Eggs
Fire Rescue
Unwittingly, Palmer stepped out of the jungle and into headhunter folklore forever.
“Drive, George, drive! This one’s got a coat hanger!”
“One day, Wilson, I’ll be sitting at that desk.”
How Cow Documentaries Are Made
Boarding
World’s Creation (And just to make it interesting)
Gary Larson, with some of his Far Side work, in 1985 – Photo: Paul Sakuma/Associated Press

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