What single panel comic strip, running daily from 1980 to 1995, featured the surreal humor of WSU alum Gary Larson?
Gary Larson Gary Larson Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist. He is the creator of "The Far Side", a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to over 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies. Larson was born and raised in University Place, Washington, in suburban Tacoma, the son of Verner, a car salesman, and Doris, a secretary. He graduated from Curtis Senior High School in University Place and from Washington State University in Pullman
The Neighbors (comic strip) The Neighbors (comic strip) The Neighbors was an American gag-a-day comic strip, created by George Clark which ran from 1939 to 1971. Clark launched "The Neighbors" in 1939 with the Chicago Tribune-New York Daily News Syndicate. Similar to his earlier "Side Glances", it explored subtle aspects of middle-class family humor. He soon added a Sunday strip, "Our Neighbors, the Ripples", a title eventually shortened to "The Ripples". The Sunday strip was dropped in 1948, but his daily panel continued until 1971. Stephen Becker ("Comic Art in America") commented, "He has never attempted to induce the belly laugh; he feels that