Gary Larson, born in Tacoma, Washington, on 14 August 1950, 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 on 1 January 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online. Within this atlas Gary Larson is credited as the creator of The Far Side. These details are drawn from the English Wikipedia article Gary Larson, which this entry cites as its source.
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Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) 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.
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Larson was awarded the Newspaper Panel Cartoon Award by the National Cartoonists Society in 1985 and 1988, earned the society's Reuben Award for 1990 and 1994, and has been recognized for various individual strips by the National Cartoonists Society in 1989, 1990, 1991, 1993 and 1995.
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The Far Side is a single-paneled comic strip created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from January 1, 1980 through January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist).
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