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Gary Larson


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

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Genre
Comics & Graphic Novels


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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Average rating: 4.43 · 140,037 ratings · 2,159 reviews · 116 distinct works • Similar authors
The Far Side Gallery 3
4.43 avg rating — 26,084 ratings — published 1984 — 19 editions
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The Far Side Gallery
4.43 avg rating — 25,603 ratings — published 1982 — 13 editions
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The Far Side Gallery 2
4.41 avg rating — 11,960 ratings — published 1986 — 23 editions
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The PreHistory of The Far S...
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The Far Side
4.45 avg rating — 9,365 ratings — published 1982 — 17 editions
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The Complete Far Side, 1980...
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The Far Side® Gallery 5
4.52 avg rating — 5,444 ratings — published 1995 — 17 editions
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Beyond The Far Side
4.44 avg rating — 4,129 ratings — published 1983 — 16 editions
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The Bride of The Far Side
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“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
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“Welcome to Hell. Here's your accordion.”
― Gary Larson, The Complete Far Side, 1980–1994
tags: cartoon, humor, satire, social-commentary
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“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
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