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Gary Larson Biography

Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is 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.

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Things can be low on the food chain, but that doesn't mean they're lowly.

Chain, Chains, Low, Lows, Mean, Things

The idea for any cartoon (my experience, anyway) is rarely spontaneous. Good ideas usually evolve out of pretty lame ones, and vice versa.

Anyway, Cartoon, Ideas, Versa, Vice, Vices

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'.

Food, Men, Shark, Sharks, Water, Waters

I've always considered music stores to be the graveyards of musicians.

Graveyard, Graveyards, Music, Musician, Musicians, Stores

Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.

Forgets, Infested, Men, Sharks, Water, Waters

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.

Animal, Animals, Believe, Hell, Think, Thinking

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

Absent, Chickens, Depression, Life, Long

Every week when my batch of weekly cartoons would go to FedEx, it felt like a small miracle. Then in a few days, it's 'Here we go again.

Cartoon, Days, Felt, Miracle, Week

I get a couple cups of coffee into me and weird things just start to happen.

Coffee, Couple, Cups, Happen, Start

If a tree falls in the woods, and nobody is around to hear it, and it hits a mime, does anyone care?

Fall, Tree, Doe, Falls, Care

Charters give public school teachers the flexibility to design programs to the individual student needs. They no longer have to go to a distant bureaucracy to ask for permission. By being allowed to make their own decisions the teachers are able to create strong partnerships with parents.

Distant, Give, Individual, School, Strong, Teacher

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview.

Animal, Animals, Comics, Interviews, Liked, Species

People try to look for deep meanings in my work. I want to say, 'They're just cartoons, folks. You laugh or you don't. ' Gee, I sound shallow. But I don't react to current events or other stimuli. I don't read or watch TV to get ideas. My work is basically sitting down at the drawing table and getting silly.

Drawing, Ideas, React, Silly, Sound

I think I'm maintaining the quality, but internally I'm paying for it.

Internally, Maintaining, Quality, Think, Thinking

I thought some of my earlier cartoons were not exactly great shakes at the time I drew them. Now I see a certain innocence in them. The humor has a kind of purity to it, I guess. And it works better on some level for me now.

Cartoon, Exactly, Innocence, Kind, Works

You should always leave the party 10 minutes before you actually do.

Actually, Minutes, Party, Should

Perspective was always important. There are some cartoonists who can stand at the foot of a building looking straight up and they'll capture it perfectly. And then there are those of us who do the same drawing and it's the goofiest-looking thing in the world. But after a while I guess you just learn what you're capable of and what you can and can't do.

Cartoonists, Important, Perfectly, Perspective, Stand, World

Theme-park approach to nature. We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We gravitate toward animals and plants that are big, dramatic, beautiful and at eye-level.

Animal, Animals, Beautiful, Dramatic, Entertaining, Eye

The picture's pretty bleak, gentlemen. . . The world's climates are changing, the mammals are taking over, and we all have a brain about the size of a walnut.

Brain, Changing, Gentleman, Mammals, Taking

He has been known by many names: Lucifer, Beelzabub, Belial, the Prince of Lies, Satan, and at a party once an obnoxious drunk kept calling him "Dude. "

Calling, Drunk, Dude, Lying, Names, Party

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