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The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life,
Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.
--Gary Larson
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3.05.02
Today's journal entry is a public service announcement. I'm providing links to the best articles on the web about cartoonist Gary Larson.
If something is wrong with you and you don't know who Gary Larson is, he (to quote somebody else writing about him) "created a world entirely populated by the lumpy, the big-nosed, the bespectacled, the bug-eyed and the foofy-haired."
If you don't know what The Far Side is, I can't help you.
Salon.com Brilliant Careers article
This is a nice big chunky substantial interview with Larson.
Gerry Rising's Nature Watch goodbye column
When Larson retired in 1995, Rising, State University of New York Distinguished Teaching Professor Emeritus, solicited reactions from scientists around the world. Scroll down to the 1995 columns to access both his Nature Watch column published in the Buffalo News, as well as all of the scientists' individual musings.
USA Today article on Larson's There's a Hair in my Dirt! A Worm's Story
He advises putting your chin to the ground to study an anthill. I love him.
CNN article on A Worm's Story
Look at what he'll have on his tombstone. Hee, hee.
Larson on online use of Far Side cartoons
This is a graceful, funny coup for intellectual property, if you ask me. "These cartoons are my 'children,' of sorts," writes Larson, "and like a parent, I'm concerned about where they go at night without telling me."
Larson's answer to The Smithsonian Time Machine
Smithsonian magazine asked a number of Americans notable in their fields what moment from the past they would like to visit if they could magically provide the means of transport.
Rhymes with Orange
This has nothing to do with Gary Larson. I just love Hilary Price's comic strip. We need to support the next generation of cartoonists.
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