Gary Larson (b. August 14 1950) is the creator of "The Far Side", a single-panel comic strip which appeared in many newspapers for fourteen years until Larson's retirement January 1, 1995. The strip remains popular to this day. Wikipedia
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Gary Larson He created a world entirely populated by the lumpy, the big-nosed, the bespectacled, the bug-eyed and the foofy-haired. www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/12/21/larson/
Sightings of retired Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson are about as rare as the exotic vipers, rhinos and cheetahs that graced his daily strip for its 15 year run from 1980 to 1995. He rarely gives interviews. But he agrees to endure a face-to-face... www.usatoday.com/life/2006-11-20-larson-cover-usat_x.htm