Best Selling Books by Gary Larson

1993 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

Collection of the syndicated cartoon panel "The Far Side."

A collective wail was heard earlier this year when readers of 1,900 newspapers discovered that Gary Larson was bowing out of daily cartooning. But fear not! Politically correct swamp monsters, fortune-telling chickens, boxing crabs, cows relaxing in a hay bar, and other creatures wrought from the imagination of this notoriously warped and wonderful wit come into readers'' lives once again in his latest collection of uniquely wacky cartoons.

Gary Larson writes: Our story begins with a family of worms who are having dinner one fine evening and Son Worm is unhappy. Unhappy because he''s found a hair in his plate of dirt. It''s the proverbial straw and it leads him to bemoan his fate as a worm - he''s sick and tired of being a worm, tired of being at the bottom of the food chain. His father, upset by his outburst, decides to tell him the tale of a fair human maiden called Harriet. Even with the wonder of satellite television, Harriet loved the Great Outdoors and took many wondrous walks along her favourite woodland trail, adventures filled with mystery and magic. Unfortunately, although Harriet was fair and kindhearted (to a very dangerous degree) she was also, well, dumb. She didn''t quite understand what she was seeing, didn''t realise that in Nature, what you see is not necessarily what you get ...

1981, 1983 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

1986 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

A collection of cartoons from the Far Side. Other work by the author includes Night of the Crash Test Dummies , In Search of the Far Side and Cows of Our Planet .

Collection of the cartoon panel "The Far Side."

The eighth collection of The Far Side.

Collection of cartoons based on the enormously popular, syndicated series, which ran in daily newspapers until 1995, features thirteen new cartoons along with more than 140 cartoons that have never appeared in a book form.

1990 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

1987, 1989 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

1986 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

1984 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

The ninth collection of THE FAR SIDE.

1986, 1988 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

The Far Side® and the Larson® signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

1993 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. The Far Side and the Larson signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.

Contains every Far Side cartoon ever syndicated (over 4,000), plus more than 1,000 cartoons that have never before appeared in a book. Includes hate mail, fan letters, queries from puzzled readers, and more.

Since "The Far Side''s debut in January 1980, fans have bought more than 40 million "Far Side books and more than 60 million calendars. Now, at long last, the ultimate "Far Side book has arrived as a hefty, deluxe, two-volume slipcased set. A masterpiece of comic brilliance, The Complete Far Side contains every "Far Side cartoon ever syndicated--over 4,000 if you must know-presented in (more or less) chronological order by year of publication, with more than 1,100 that have never before appeared in a book. Creator Gary Larson offers a rare glimpse into the mind of "The Far Side in quirky and thoughtful introductions to each of the 14 chapters. Complaint letters, fan letters, and queries from puzzled readers appear alongside some of the more provocative or elusive panels, and actor, author, and comedian Steve Martin offers his pithy thoughts in a foreword.

1981, 1983 FarWorks, Inc. All Rights Reserved. "The Far Side"" and the "Larson"" signature are registered trademarks of FarWorks, Inc.