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Today Larson is 36, but he still pursues an antic fascination with nature in his daily cartoon The Far Side, which appears in 550 newspapers. Larson's work has been collected in eight books (total copies: 5 million); his latest, The Far Side Gallery 2 (Andrews, McMeel & Parker; $9.95), is the nation's top- selling trade paperback, according to Publishers Weekly. His sketches adorn T shirts, mugs, calendars and greeting cards. His creatures may not be as ubiquitous as Garfield or Snoopy, but then, Larson began selling his work only ten years ago. Says he of his rapid success...
...faculty member, I was disappointed to see our students behaving like sheep, with a blind allegiance to an aging hippie or the administration in Washington," Leheny said. "The more people act like cartoon characters, the less likely people are to listen to them...
Ecologists have been working for years to improve the quality of the Rhine's water, but that project has now been set back at least a decade. Indeed, as the bad news mounted, even the river's legend seemed in peril. In a front-page cartoon, the German weekly Die Zeit showed the mythic Lorelei looking lost and forlorn. The reason: chemicals were making the maiden's hair fall...
...like to be privy to everyone else's weird thoughts and ways of looking at things," says Cooperson, in explanation of his love of languages. A tangential interest is drawing--in particular creating cartoons--again reflecting his sense of the offbeat. Last year he helped put together a cartoon book, and he has done the graphics for several of the house T-shirts. Cooperson jokingly traces this interest in the unusual back to his hometown: Wilmington, Delaware. "It's so small and American. I needed the exotic...
...been getting play in the Soviet press lately: that the illness is the result of U.S. germ-warfare experiments gone wild. AIDS experts scoff at the farfetched notion, and Washington has accused the Soviets of waging a "disinformation campaign." U.S. Ambassador to Moscow Arthur Hartman publicly protested a Pravda cartoon depicting a U.S. scientist and an officer exchanging a vial of AIDS viruses...