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Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. [1] The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online.
Gary Larson is an American cartoonist best known for his single-panel comic series The Far Side, which is renowned for its scientific content and bizarre humour. Larson produced The Far Side for 15 years, from January 1980 until January 1995. Larson was raised in Tacoma, Washington, the youngest
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- Canine Decoder. Other comic strips like Garfield, were based exclusively around the inner thoughts of a pet, but Larson often tackled the subject with a bit more strangeness.
- The Reason Dinosaurs Became Extinct. There have been plenty of dinosaur-related strips in The Far Side’s long history. But non are funnier than this, an alternate theory to what killed the dinosaurs: Smoking.
- Wolves in Sheeps' Clothing. Animals with human personalities are a staple of The Far Side and this comic finds a lot of humor in a pack of wolves. While it appears the wolves are in among a flock of sheep, they're all actually wolves dressed up as sheep, shocked that there isn't any actual sheep in the field.
- Farmer Brown. This strip has everything that makes The Far Side funny. Here, Farmer Brown walks in on his cattle who are working on plans to rebel against and butcher the farmer.
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Jul 9, 2020 · The Far Side fans, rejoice! Cartoonist Gary Larson has returned. Larson is known for his award-winning single-panel cartoons The Far Side that ran in newspapers from 1980 to 1995. He had not ...
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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 ...
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Sep 25, 2019 · Gary Larson was born August 14, 1950, in Tacoma, Washington. Always drawn to nature, he and his older brother spent much of their youth exploring the woods and swamps of the Pacific Northwest, and the tidelands and waters of Puget Sound. Though he loved to draw as a child, Larson didn’t formally study art, nor did he consider being a cartoonist.
