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Gary Larson

Gary Larson (Born 1950) is active/lives in California.  Gary Larson is known for Illustrator-cartoon.

Gary Larson is one of the most distinctive cartoonists of the 1980s. His panel feature, "The Far Side," has a slant unmistakably all its own, a unique angle of vision, described by "People" magazine as "the inner workings of his eerily unconventional mind."

Born in Tacoma, Washington, Larson studied communications at Washington State University with unclear professional goals. It was on an impulse, late in the 1970s, when he sketched six animal cartoons unlike any he had ever seen before. He offered them to the nature magazine, "Pacific Search." To his amazement, they were all purchased. He received $90, which encouraged him to repeat the experiment. Despite the bizarre nature of his cartoons, he succeeded in selling the "Seattle Times" a weekly panel series called "Natures Way" in 1978. It was canceled within the year after complaints about the "unnatural selection of the subject matter."

Larson began selling his material to the "San Francisco Chronicle" just as his Time   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3605 characters.]  Artist bio

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