Gary Allen Larson

Gary Larson is an American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies.

Larson was born and raised in University Place, Washington, in suburban Tacoma, the son of Verner, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. He 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. In 1988, he married Toni Carmichael, an anthropologist. Early in their relationship, Carmichael became his business manager. He lives in Seattle, Washington. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0)

Sources

• Ancestry.com. Washington, U.S., Marriage Records, 1854-2013 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.
  • Name: Gary Allen Larson; Marriage Age: 37; Birth Date: abt 1951; Birth Place: Washington, USA; Marriage Date: 20 Mar 1988; Marriage Place: King, Washington, USA; Spouse: Toni Arlene Carmichael.
• "Births." The Tacoma News Tribune via Newspapers.com, published 17 August 1950, p. 34. < link > Accessed 14 July 2024.
• "Gary Larson." Wikipedia, revision of 10 July 2024. < link > Accessed 14 July 2024.