Gary Larson

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born

August 14, 1950 in Tacoma, Washington, The United States

gender

male

website

http://www.thefarside.com

genre

Comics & Graphic Novels

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Gary Larson was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington. His parents were Vern, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. 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.

Larson credits his older brother Dan for his "paranoid" sense of humor. 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...more

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Books by Gary Larson

Average rating: 4.41 · 32,765 ratings · 586 reviews · 31 distinct works

	The Far Side Gallery 3 4.40 avg rating — 7,230 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Far Side Gallery 4 4.40 avg rating — 3,345 ratings — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Far Side Gallery 4.40 avg rating — 3,001 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Prehistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit 4.47 avg rating — 2,821 ratings — published 1989 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Far Side Gallery 2 by Gary Larson, Stephen King (Introduction) 4.40 avg rating — 2,769 ratings — published 1986 — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Complete Far Side, 1980-1994 by Gary Larson, Steve Martin (Foreword by) 4.67 avg rating — 1,778 ratings — published 2003 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Far Side Gallery 5 by Gary Larson, Jane Goodall (Foreword by) 4.49 avg rating — 1,469 ratings — 7 editions	My rating:
	The Far Side 4.44 avg rating — 1,396 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Beyond The Far Side 4.37 avg rating — 1,019 ratings — published 1983 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Wiener Dog Art 4.30 avg rating — 966 ratings — published 1990 — 6 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Gary Larson

“Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”
― Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, 1980-1994

tags: cartoon , humor , satire , social-commentary

76 people liked it

“You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.”
― Gary Larson

tags: humor

57 people liked it

“I don't believe in the concept of hell, but if I did I would think of it as filled with people who were cruel to animals.”
― Gary Larson

tags: animals , cruelty , hell

34 people liked it

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