When did Gary Larson officially retire from writing the “Far Side”?”
Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel comic strip which appeared in many newspapers for fifteen years until Larson’s retirement on January 1, 1995. The precursor to The Far Side first appeared in the Seattle Times in 1979 under the name “Nature’s Way”. After Larson’s success with the San Francisco Chronicle, The Far Side was syndicated in 1980 by Chronicle Features. Its first appearance in the Chronicle under the new name was on January 1, 1980, and ran until Larson retired with the last strip running on January 1, 1995. Larson thought the cartoon was getting repetitive and didn’t want it to descend into what he called the “Graveyard of Mediocre Cartoons.” Themes in The Far Side were often surreal, such as “How cows behave when no human watches” or “The unexpected dangers of being an insect.” Often, the behavior of supposedly superior humans is compared with that of animals: surrounded by fences and dense housing, a father explains to his son
First order of business: A cool chap by the name of Christopher Mills sent me an e-mail in reply to Friday’s entry, informing me about his upcoming mini-series from Ape Entertainment, “Perils of Planet X.” It seems like it will be a snazzy sci-fi swashbuckling adventure tale. It also shortens to an awesome acronym: POPX. Look for it. Second order of business: Archive link. Third order of business: For the next few days, I’m going to talk about a slightly different form of sequential art: the newspaper comic strip. Entries have appeared before on cartoonists like Robb Armstrong and Bill Watterson, and I’m going to continue to extol the virtues of syndicated greatness and whatnot. Today’s featured strip is one of the most popular of all time. Fourth order of business: The actual post. 8/12/07 224. The Far Side For sequential art, The Far Side isn’t very… you know, sequential. It is, however, brilliant. Gary Larson’s mad genius appeared for fifteen years in “Far Side” form before ending
Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel comic strip which appeared in many newspapers for fifteen years until Larson’s retirement on January 1, 1995. Larson was born and raised in University Place, Washington. His parents are Verner, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. He attended Curtis Senior High School before attending Washington State University, from which he graduated in 1972 with a degree in communications. In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an anthropologist. Ms. Carmichael graduated from Safford High School in 1972 before attending college.
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