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Comic, classical in form, effortless and cool.
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- classical in formformally daring
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- Author
- Gary Larson
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 191
- Publisher
- Futura, Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780836218312
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Gary Larson grew up in a blue collar household in a blue-collar city, Tacoma, Washington. He played jazz guitar and worked in a music store, and in 1976 he sent six cartoons to Pacific Search, a regional science and nature magazine. They sent him $90, and that struck Larson as a lot more enjoyable work than the music store. His first steady work as a cartoonist was for The Sumner News-Review, a weekly paper in a Tacoma suburb. The job paid $3 a week. In 1979, The Seattle Times started carrying Larson's once-a-week work, titled Nature's Way, for $15 a strip. The panel drew some complaints of being sick and offensive, and a few complains were enough to get it canceled. Just as The Times pulled
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