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Gary Larson (b. August 14, 1950) is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel comic strip which appeared in many newspapers for fourteen years until Larson's retirement January 1, 1995. The strip remains popular to this day. is the 226th day of the year (227th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Biography
Gary Larson was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. His parents were Vern, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary.[1] He attended Curtis High School before attending Washington State University and graduated in 1972 with a degree in communications. In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an archaeologist. Tacoma, with Mount Rainier in background You may be looking for Takoma or Tacoma class frigate. ...
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Larson credits his older brother Dan for his "paranoid" sense of humor.[1] Dan would pull countless pranks on Gary, taking advantage of his phobia of monsters under the bed by, for example, waiting in the closet for the right moment to pounce out at Gary. Dan is also credited with giving Gary his love of science. They caught animals in Puget Sound and placed them in terrariums in the basement; even making a small desert ecosystem, which their parents apparently didn't mind.[1]
According to Larson[2] in his anthology, The Prehistory of the Far Side, he was working in a music store when he realized that he hated his job and took two days off to reflect on his career. During that time, he drew six cartoons and submitted them to Pacific Search (now Pacific Northwest Magazine), a Seattle-based magazine. After contributing to another local Seattle paper, in 1979 Larson submitted his work to The Seattle Times. His work was published weekly under the title Nature’s Way (it was placed next to the Junior Jumble).[2] An anthology, literally a garland or collection of flowers, is a collection of literary works, originally of poems. ...
About the Book The PreHistory of The Far Side was written by Gary Larson, is 288 pages long, and was first published in August of 1989 by the publishing company Andrews and McMeel. ...
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To supplement his income, Larson worked for the Humane Society. Larson soon decided he could increase his income from cartooning by selling his strip to another newspaper. Taking his vacation in San Francisco, Larson pitched his work to the San Francisco Chronicle. To Larson’s surprise, the Chronicle bought the strip and promoted it for syndication, renaming it "The Far Side". This all occurred a week before the Seattle Times dropped Nature’s Way.[2] A humane society is a group that aims to stop animal and human suffering due to cruelty or other reasons. ...
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In The Complete Far Side[3], Larson says that his greatest disappointment in life occurred when he was at a luncheon and sat across from Charles Addams. Larson wasn't able to think of a single thing to say to him, and has deeply regretted the missed opportunity ever since. Charles Samuel Addams (January 7, 1912 - September 28, 1988) was an American cartoonist known for his particularly black humor and macabre characters. ...
Since retiring from the Far Side, Larson has occasionally done some cartooning work, such as magazine illustrations and promotional artwork for Far Side merchandise.
In 1998, Larson published his first post-Far Side book, There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story, an illustrated story with the unmistakable Far Side mindset.
The Far Side The precursor to The Far Side first appeared in the Seattle Times in 1979 under the name, "Nature’s Way". After Larson’s success with the San Francisco Chronicle, The Far Side was syndicated in 1980 by Chronicle Features. Its first appearance in the Chronicle under the new name was on January 1, 1980. The Far Side ran for fifteen years, ending with the retirement of the strip on January 1, 1995. Larson chose to end the cartoon because he felt it was getting repetitive, and didn't want it to descend into what he called the "Graveyard of Mediocre Cartoons".[1] is the 1st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Themes in The Far Side were often surreal, such as "How cows behave when no human watches", or "The unexpected dangers of being an insect". Often, the behavior of supposedly superior humans is compared with that of animals: surrounded by dense fences and houses, a father explains to his son that a bird song is a territorial marking common to the lower animals. Animals and other creatures were frequently presented anthropomorphically. For example, one strip shows a family of spiders driving in a car with a "Have a Nice Day" bumper sticker, featuring a "smiley face" with eight eyes. This photograph, a cow with antlers standing on a pole, is an example of surreal humour. ...
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One of Larson's more famous cartoons shows two chimpanzees grooming. One finds a blonde human hair on the other and inquires, "Conducting a little more 'research' with that Jane Goodall tramp?" The Jane Goodall Institute thought this was in bad taste, and had their lawyers draft a letter to Larson and his distribution syndicate, in which they described the cartoon as an "atrocity". They were stymied, however, by Goodall herself, who revealed that she found the cartoon amusing. [2] Since then, all profits from sales of a shirt featuring this cartoon go to the Goodall Institute. Type species Simia troglodytes Blumenbach, 1775 distribution of Species Pan troglodytes Pan paniscus Chimpanzee, often shortened to chimp, is the common name for the two extant species in the genus Pan. ...
Dame Jane Goodall, DBE, (born April 3, 1934) is an English UN Messenger of Peace, primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist. ...
Valerie Jane Morris-Goodall (born April 3, 1934) is a British primatologist, ethologist and anthropologist, probably best-known for conducting a forty-year study of chimpanzee social and family life, as director of the Jane Goodall Institute in Gombe Stream National Park in Tanzania. ...
Goodall wrote a preface to The Far Side Gallery 5, detailing her version of the "Jane Goodall Tramp" controversy[4]. She also praised Larson's creative ideas, which often compare and contrast the behavior of humans and animals. In 1988 Larson visited Gombe Streams National Park and was attacked by Frodo, a chimp described by Goodall as a "bully". Larson escaped with cuts and bruises. Gombe Streams National Park in Tanzania is the smallest of that countrys national parks and was formed in 1968 to give protection to the thousands of chimpanzees that live there, made famous by the primatologist Jane Goodall. ...
Larson’s Far Side cartoons were syndicated worldwide and published in many collections. They were also reproduced extensively on greetings cards which continue to be popular. Two animated versions, "Tales from the Far Side" and "Tales from the Far Side II", were produced for television. A greeting card is a folded card featuring a message of greeting or other sentiment. ...
Most recently, Larson has published a 2007 calendar with all author royalties donated to Conservation International. Conservation International (CI) is a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., that seeks to protect Earths biodiversity hotspots, high-biodiversity wilderness areas as well as important marine regions around the globe. ...
There's A Hair In My Dirt There's A Hair In My Dirt is a short, illustrated story of a worm who feels his life is insignificant. The story is unsurprisingly accurate about the workings of nature. This story shows the real significance of worms in a humorous way. It is considered the completion of a Gary Larson collection. The story became a New York Times Bestseller. The New York Times bestseller list is a weekly chart in The New York Times newspaper that keeps track of the best-selling books of the week. ...
Awards Larson was awarded the Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award by the National Cartoonist Society in 1985 and 1988. Larson also earned the Society’s Reuben Award for 1990 and 1994. Gary Larson has also been recognized for various individual strips by the National Cartoonist Society in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1995. The National Cartoonists Society is an organization of professional cartoonists created in 1946. ...
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On March 15, 1989, Gary Larson received the honor of having a newly-discovered insect species named after him by Dale H. Clayton, head of the Committee of Evolutionary Biology at the University of Chicago. The Strigiphilus garylarsoni is a biting louse of a genus only found on owls. Larson has since said: "I considered this an extreme honor. Besides, I knew no one was going to write and ask to name a new species of swan after me. You have to grab these opportunities when they come along." A 8"x11" magnification of the insect appeared in the Prehistory of the Far Side 10th anniversary compilation, along with the letter requesting permission to use his name. A similar thing happened when an Ecuadorian rain forest butterfly was named after him; Serratoterga larsoni.[1] These are not the only “contributions” Larson has made to science: the term “thagomizer”, a feature of stegosaurus anatomy, was coined in a Far Side cartoon. is the 74th day of the year (75th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...
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Orders Subclass Apterygota Archaeognatha (bristletails) Thysanura (silverfish) Subclass Pterygota Infraclass Paleoptera (Probably paraphyletic) Ephemeroptera (mayflies) Odonata (dragonflies and damselflies) Infraclass Neoptera Superorder Exopterygota Grylloblattodea (ice-crawlers) Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) Plecoptera (stoneflies) Embioptera (webspinners) Zoraptera (angel insects) Dermaptera (earwigs) Orthoptera (grasshoppers, etc) Phasmatodea (stick insects) Blattodea (cockroaches) Isoptera (termites) Mantodea (mantids) Psocoptera...
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Binomial name <><> </></>< />< >{{{}}}, {{{}}}</ >>} The Strigiphilus garylarsoni is a biting louse of a genus only found on owls. ...
Suborders Anoplura (sucking lice) Rhyncophthirina Ischnocera (avian lice) Amblycera (chewing lice) Lice (singular: louse), also known as fly babies, (order Phthiraptera) are an order of over 3,000 species of wingless phthiraptra. ...
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Now this end is called the thagomizer, after the late Thag Simmons. ...
Species Marsh, 1877 (type) Marsh, 1887 Gilmore, 1914 Stegosaurus (IPA: ) is a genus of stegosaurid armoured dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (Kimmeridgian to Early Tithonian) in what is now western North America. ...
Gary Larson's adept use of snakes in his cartoons stems from his long-standing interest in herpetology. Herpetology (Greek herpeton = to creep, to ramp and logos = in this context explanation or reason) is the branch of zoology concerned with the study of reptiles and amphibians. ...
References - ^ a b c d e Ferguson, Kelly. "A Walk on the Far Side: The Life and Times of Gary Larson." 2006. Mental_Floss Nov.-Dec. 2006, 59-65.
- ^ a b c d Larson, Gary. The Prehistory of the Far Side: a 10th anniversary exhibit. Kansas City, MO: Andrew and McNeel, 1989. (ISBN 0-8362-1851-5)
- ^ Larson, Gary. The Complete Far Side. 1st ed. Kansas City, MO: Andrews McNeel, 2003.(ISBN 0-7407-2113-5)
- ^ Larson, Gary. The Far Side Gallery 5. Kansas City, MO: Andrew and McNeel, 1995. (ISBN 0-8362-0425-5)
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