![]() ![]() Early in their relationship, Carmichael became his business manager. In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an anthropologist. They caught animals in Puget Sound and placed them in terrariums in the basement, and also made a small desert ecosystem. Dan "scared the hell out of me" whenever he could, Gary said, but Dan also nurtured Gary's love of scientific knowledge. Dan played pranks on Gary, for example by taking advantage of his fear of monsters under the bed by waiting in the closet for the right moment to pounce. Larson said his family has "a morbid sense of humor", and that he was influenced by the "paranoid" sense of humor of his older brother, Dan. ![]() During high school and college, he played jazz guitar and banjo. He graduated from Curtis Senior High School in University Place and from Washington State University in Pullman with a degree in communications. ![]() Larson was born and raised in University Place, Washington, in suburban Tacoma, the son of Verner, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies. On July 8, 2020, Larson released three new comics, his first in 25 years. In September 2019, his website alluded to a "new online era of The Far Side". The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995. He is the creator of The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist, environmentalist, and former musician. ![]()
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