Gary Larson
Gary Larson
Gary Larsonis an American cartoonist. He is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to over 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCartoonist
Date of Birth14 August 1950
CityTacoma, WA
CountryUnited States of America
We did our best to oversee the property, but it's an isolated site.
I just get silly inside my head and I start to think about something and in my head I start twisting it around, contorting it and envisioning it in different ways.
I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'
The daily calendar seemed, to me, like a kind of cartoon black hole, and you didn't have to be a rocket scientist to know that that couldn't be sustained indefinitely. That's why I pulled the plug on that one after the '02 edition. Kind of a preemptive strike.
This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.
You're seeing a shift within the charter school movement. The first 10 years were about creating choices for parents. The second decade is a focus on identifying successful models and replicating them as quickly as possible.
This could be setting a trend here. With this school, you have a gifted curriculum, but they're not limiting it to traditionally defined gifted students. That's where you get a truly innovative model.
Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever.
I think one thing that's important to maintain is a sense of fear, always doubting yourself... a good dose of insecurity helps your work in some ways.
Wait a minute! This is grass! We've been eating grass!
The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.
The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.
On Career Day in high school, you don't walk around looking for the cartoon guy.
I actually find a lot of parallels in jazz and cartooning.