What better mentor than Gary Larson's slightly askew humor?! I wasn't a hellion, so I didn't feel I needed to go overboard. Whatever it was, it was going to be different than my parents' button-down world view. In 1998, Larson published his first post-Far Side book, There's a Hair in My Dirt!: A Worm's Story, an illustrated story with the unmistakable Far Side mindset. Since retiring from the Far Side, Larson has occasionally done some cartooning work, such as magazine illustrations and promotional artwork for Far Side merchandise. His adept use of snakes in his cartoons stems from his long-standing interest in herpetology. They caught animals in Puget Sound and placed them in terrariums in the basement even making a small desert ecosystem, which their parents apparently did not mind. Dan is also credited with giving Gary his love of science. Dan would pull countless pranks on Gary, taking advantage of his phobia of monsters under the bed by, for example, waiting in the closet for the right moment to pounce out at Gary. Larson credits his older brother Dan for his "paranoid" sense of humor. In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an archaeologist. He attended Curtis High School before attending Washington State University and graduated in 1972 with a degree in communications. His parents were Vern, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. Gary Larson was born and raised in Tacoma, Washington.
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