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
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.
We did our best to oversee the property, but it's an isolated site.
Suddenly, two bystanders stuck their heads inside the frame and ruined one of the funniest cartoons ever.
Just be careful how you put it back down, or you can wipe out a population the size of Manhattan.