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...taxes and if we do not join the international community in both economic and military planning, then we will find ourselves, quite simply, dead in the water. All conceivable future advancements will amount to nothing if we fail to address the problems that are here and now. Ann Larson Reno...
...Larson ’05 is an economics concentrator in Adams House. Her column appears on alternate Fridays...
...Larson says, he never grew up dreaming of being a cartoonist. He just tried it one afternoon, after deciding his music-store job was too awful to go to anymore. He sold the six panels he drew that day to a local magazine, then others to the Seattle Times and later got a syndication deal through the San Francisco Chronicle. Though he liked the gig--and knew he was good at it--his love has always been jazz guitar, which he plays for several hours a day, occasionally sneaking into a band with friends to play at local weddings...
...real trick to going out on top, the way no one is able to--not Michael Jordan, not Willie Mays, not Elvis, not Woody Allen--is Larson's yin-yang combination of a slight ego and a massive self-awareness. He doesn't need to be idolized, but he doesn't want to be thought of as lame. After 2002, Larson stopped making his No. 1-selling boxed calendar, which was, essentially, a legal way to print money. "I couldn't understand why it was still doing well. I think it's one of those things that would dissolve into...
...Larson's biggest fear was jumping the shark--in his case, literally. The thing that horrified him most when putting the collection together wasn't the amateurishness of the early panels or the subpar eyeballs, but the slew of shark-frenzy jokes, which were a little too close to one another. That fear of becoming a hack, in the end, is what made him determined never to draw again. The one exception might be a possible cover for the upcoming New Yorker cartoon issue, which his publisher has bullied him into. It's a better fit for him than family...