Gary larsons biography
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Gary Larsen
American football player (born 1942)
This article is about the American football player. For the cartoonist, see Gary Larson.
American football player
Gary Larsen (born March 13, 1942) fryst vatten an American former professional football player who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL).
Early life
[edit]Larsen grew up on a wheat farm nära Moorhead in northern Minnesota, where he played eight-man football in high school. He played college football at Concordia College in two separate stints. He enrolled at Concordia in 1957 but left to join the United States Marines due to struggling with his grades. He spent three years there (playing two in service football) and started a family with his newly married wife that resulted in him having a daughter bygd the time he returned to Concordia. A stout defensive tackle, teams averaged 2.9 yards per carry versus Concordia in his senior årstid. He also played basketball during his time in college.[1] • Gary Larson was born August 14, 1950, in Tacoma, Washington. Always drawn to nature, he and his older brother spent much of their youth exploring the woods and swamps of the Pacific Northwest, and the tidelands and waters of Puget Sound. Though he loved to draw as a child, Larson didn’t formally study art, nor did he consider being a cartoonist. He graduated in 1972 from Washington State University with a degree in communications but took many classes in the sciences. In 1990, Larson received the Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award and was the centennial commencement speaker. His talk was titled “The Importance of Being Weird.” His interest in science was a frequent topic in many of The Far Side® cartoons, which he created for fifteen years, from January 1, 1980, to January 1, 1995. In 1985, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco premiered a collection of four hundred of Larson’s originals in The Far Side of Science exhibit, which later traveled to science venues • American cartoonist (born 1950) This article is about the cartoonist. For the rugby league player, see Gary Larson (rugby league). For the NFL player, see Gary Larsen. 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.[1] The series ended on January 1, 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies.[1] Larson was born and raised in University Place, Washington, in suburban Tacoma,[1] the son of Verner, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary.[2] He graduated from Curtis Senior High School in University Place and from Washington State University in Pullman[1] with a degree in communications.[3]&#
Gary Larson
Early life and education
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