Gary Larson speaks

Far Side author working for Conservation Intl.

Posted by David Roberts at 12:50 PM on 21 Nov 2006

Several people have written to call my attention to this interview with reclusive cartoonist Gary Larson (of Far Side fame) in USA Today. Seems he's come out of hiding to promote his latest calendar, all profits of which will go to Conservation International to help fight illegal wildlife trade in Asia.

Give it a read.

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terrific!

This is wonderful! I can check off a few people on my Xmas gift list, including my godsons.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 1:45 PM on 21 Nov 2006

Gary, friend of swamp things...

Gary was a Fox Island neighbor and I often thought his "Beware of Doug" panels were about me.

by sunflower at 1:53 PM on 21 Nov 2006

I have given my wife his date book

for Christmas every year since it first came out. She has them all and they may be worth money some day because they also record the trials and tribulations of a family. Just today my youngest and I were looking at the latest one. Oh my God. There was a bear returning home to his den. He was late and his wife was saying "What's your excuse this time?" The poor bear had an ear tag, a radio collar, numbers spray painted on him and a tranquilizer dart in his ass. They get better every year.

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

by biodiversivist at 9:35 PM on 21 Nov 2006

or more likely, I am getting senile.

That's the beauty of a fading memory, you can laugh at the same cartoons (and jokes) over and over again...

In the end, it all comes down to biodiversity. Poison Darts--Protecting the biodiversity of our world

by biodiversivist at 10:21 PM on 21 Nov 2006

just like the first time ...

Or the one where the three-generation family of rattlesnakes are seated at table before plates each holding a rat, and the mother says to the son, "Shake Grandpa's dinner, so he thinks it's alive."

It was a while ago that Natural History gave Larson that unofficial award. But it certainly is true that his cartoons have adorned more office doors of science professors than anyone else's.

And by the way, I certainly do not mean to exclude Andrew Sharpless's excellent idea, adopting marine animals through Oceana, as an important direction for my Xmas giving -- including for my godsons.

Chickens deserve our true friendship! So do fish! So do other sentient beings! Let us learn to be kind.

by caniscandida at 5:02 AM on 22 Nov 2006

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