Beyond the Far Side
by Gary Larson
1983American wit and humor, PictorialPictorial American wit and humorCaricatures and cartoonsComic books, stripsWit and humor, pictorial
4.0
Open LibraryThemes & subjects
American wit and humor, PictorialPictorial American wit and humorCaricatures and cartoonsComic books, stripsWit and humor, pictorial
First published 1983About the author
Gary Larson
14 August 1950
Gary Larson grew up in a blue collar household in a blue-collar city, Tacoma, Washington. He played jazz guitar and worked in a music store, and in 1976 he sent six cartoons to Pacific Search, a regional science and nature magazine. They sent him $90, and that struck Larson as a lot more enjoyable work than the music store. His first steady work as a cartoonist was for The Sumner News-Review, a weekly paper in a Tacoma suburb. The job paid $3 a week. In 1979, The Seattle Times started carrying Larson's once-a-week work, titled Nature's Way, for $15 a strip. The panel drew some complaints of being sick and offensive, and a few complains were enough to get it canceled. Just as The Times pul…
Reviews
No reviews yet — be the first to write one from the Log screen.
Quotes
No quotes yet.
