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Gary Larson was born on August 14, 1950 in Tacoma, Washington. Larson is the genius behind The Far Side, the popular cartoon panel that has been named the Best Syndicated Panel in both 1985 and 1987 and was awarded the Max & Moritz Prize for Best International Comic StripPanel by the International Comic Salon. He is has also received the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonist Society in both 1991 and 1994. Larson has published 20 other Far Side books as well as There's a Hair in My Dirt: A Worm's Story, a non-Far Side related story. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from The PreHistory of The Far Side: A 10th Anniversary Exhibit… (more)
The Far Side Gallery 2,456 copies, 8 reviews
The Far Side Gallery 3 2,021 copies, 10 reviews
The Far Side Gallery 2 1,969 copies, 11 reviews
The Far Side Gallery 4 1,959 copies, 9 reviews
The Complete Far Side: 1980–1994 1,670 copies, 17 reviews
The Far Side Gallery 5 1,493 copies, 8 reviews
Hound of The Far Side 914 copies, 3 reviews
The Far Side 908 copies, 7 reviews
The Far Side Observer 881 copies, 4 reviews
Beyond The Far Side 877 copies, 6 reviews
Valley of The Far Side 816 copies, 8 reviews
Bride of The Far Side 773 copies, 1 review
In Search of The Far Side 733 copies, 6 reviews
It Came from The Far Side 731 copies, 4 reviews
Katzenwäsche 10 copies
Langt ude 2 copies

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