The Far Side & Gary Larson
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Creator of The Far Side Gary Larson once described his greatest creative strength – though, as it turned out, part of what made him a successful artist also had the side effect of limiting his exposure to wider audiences. As Larson explained, he was impressively in-tune with himself as a creator, but he often struggled to articulate his work, and his process, which was largely a subconscious effort.
The Far Side ran in syndicated for fifteen years, from December 31, 1979, until January 1, 1995. Gary Larson's conversation with editor Jake Morrissey was published in the Chicago Tribune on October 6, 1996. Q–I was struck by something you said recently when you were talking about how you react when people ask you where you get your ideas.
Larson's response has a similar form to some of his greatest Far Side comics. At first, it seems unusual, even inscrutable, but a closer analysis reveals a resonant perspective, one that creators working in all mediums can draw inspiration from. For many successful artists, the "how" and the "why" of their creative process is something they spend countless hours thinking about. Gary Larson was a stand-out exception – and his success came precisely as a result of that.
Certainly, Gary Larson could provide a step-by-step walk-through of what happened when he sat down at his desk to work, but answering the question of where his ideas came from was much more difficult. For Larson – and as his work became increasingly popular throughout the 1980s, for the press – this proved to be a challenge without a clear-cut resolution. Even after his retirement, The Far Side's creator was still hesitant to engage with certain questions about himself as an artist.
Likewise, Larson noted that his "unfiltered" access to his internal reservoir of creativity, and his ability to consciously take a step back and follow his subconscious artistic lead, were vital to his success with The Far Side. Unlike Jim Davis, however, Gary Larson was unable to – or more appropriately, unwilling to – sell himself, and sell his art, beyond a certain limit.
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