Gary Larson

In 1987 Gary Larson married anthropologist Toni Carmichael. She was his business manager at the beginning of their relationship.

Gary Larson was born on 14 August 1950, at Washington. His father Verner was a salesman and his mother Doris was a secretary by profession. He has an older brother named Dan.

he grew up in Washington. In his childhood, he learnt to play instruments like the banjo and guitar.

He completed his school education at the Curtis Senior High School and later graduated with a degree in communication from the Washington State University in 1972.

Gary Larson’s initial aim was to take up a career in writing TV commercials. However, after his graduation he and his friend began performing music for three years. Amongst the duo, he used to play the instruments banjo and guitar while his friend used to play the keyboard and trombone.

He later found work at a music store in Washington, but soon realized that it was not his area of interest and subsequently turned to drawing.

In 1976, he drew and submitted a few of his cartoons to magazine Pacific Search. His work was appreciated and this marked the beginning of his career as a cartoonist. In 1979 he began working with newspaper The Seattle Times, which published his drawing weekly under the title ‘Nature’s Way’.

Initially, in order to sustain he had to work as an investigator for the Local Humane Society along with his drawing projects. However, in due course he decided to concentrate on drawing rather than following other occupations and decided to sell his comic strips to other newspapers.

In 1979, while at a vacation, Gary Larson approached the newspaper ‘San Francisco Chronicle’ with his cartoons from ‘Nature’s Way’. The newspaper signed a distribution contract with him and in January 1980, they began publishing the cartoon strip with a new name ‘The Far Side’. It was around the same time that ‘The Seattle Times’ stopped printing his cartoons.

Gary Larson is a well-known cartoonist and is best known for his work on the comic strip titled ‘Nature’s Way’ that were later renamed ‘The Far Side’. His work as a cartoonist has earned him much recognition and accolades.