The Far Side® 2027 Off-The-Wall Day-to-Day Calendar

The Far Side® 2027 Off-The-Wall Day-to-Day Calendar

Do not adjust your set! We’re winding up the wayback machine to proudly present  The Far Side® 2027 Off-The-Wall Calendar , fresh from the time warp where it’s still 1993. And the brilliantly bizarre work of Gary Larson still resonates just as weirdly, hilariously, and freshly as it did more than three decades ago! For this special  Off-The-Wall  reissue, we have a real treat for longtime fans. This calendar features 52 weekend cartoons in  full color —reminiscent of the Sunday comics in the newspaper—but with an extra burst of vibrancy! The vivid, beautifully painted renderings make the weekend cartoons pop like never before. Alongside them, you’ll find everyone’s favorite daily cartoons in timeless black and white. All are just as delightfully surreal, subversive, and surprising as you remember them. Take a little technicolor time trip and be transported to the most merrily macabre corner of the universe— The Far Side® !   Features include: A uniquely hilarious and irreverent  The Far Side ® black-and-white cartoon on each daily page—because who doesn’t need a daily dose of chickens in the hospital and aliens in suburbia? Weekends (combined Saturday/Sunday pages) get the deluxe treatment: full-color chaos. - Entirely plastic-free (as it should be!)—even the amoebas in Larson’s cartoons are eco-conscious. - Recyclable chipboard easel backer for convenient desk, tabletop, or spaceship dashboard display. - Printed on FSC®-certified paper with soy-based ink. That’s right—trees and beans teamed up for this one. - Tear-off pages (feel free to recycle ’em)—ideal for ending the day with a dramatic flourish! - Backs of pages are blank—perfect for doodles, grocery lists, ransom letters, secret formulas, passive-aggressive notes for coworkers, you name it. - Day, date, and month are displayed on every page—because otherwise, Tuesdays start unionizing. - Major holidays and observances included, so you know when to request that all-important PTO. Gary Larson was born August 14, 1950, in Tacoma, Washington. Always drawn to nature, he and his older brother spent much of their youth exploring the woods and swamps of the Pacific Northwest, and the tidelands and waters of Puget Sound. Though he loved to draw as a child, Larson didn’t formally study art, nor did he consider being a cartoonist. He graduated in 1972 from Washington State University with a degree in communications but took many classes in the sciences. In 1990, Larson received the Regents’ Distinguished Alumnus Award and was the centennial commencement speaker. His talk was titled “The Importance of Being Weird.” His interest in science was a frequent topic in many of The Far Side ® cartoons, which he created for fifteen years, from January 1, 1980, to January 1, 1995. In 1985, the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco premiered a collection of four hundred of Larson’s originals in The Far Side ® of Science  exhibit, which later traveled to science venues across North America, including the Smithsonian Institution and the American Museum of Natural History. In 1988, Harvard professor Stephen Jay Gould, a prominent science writer and a member of the museum’s Division of Invertebrate Zoology, dubbed Larson “the national humorist of natural history” in his foreword to The Far Side ® Gallery 3 . In other fitting tributes, the scientific community named both a chewing louse  (Strigiphilus garylarsoni)  and quill mite  (Gunabopicobia garylarsoni)  after Larson, and paleontologists refer to the distinctive array of previously unnamed tail spikes on a stegosaurus as the “thagomizer,” thanks to one of his cartoons. Larson’s work on The Far Side ® has earned him numerous awards, including the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year from the National Cartoonists Society in 1990 and 1994. The National Cartoonists Society also named Larson Best Syndicated Panel Cartoonist in both 1985 and 1988. In 1993, The Far Side ® was awarded the Max and Moritz Award for Best International Comic Strip/Panel by the International Comic Salon. In 1994, Larson debuted a twenty-two-minute version of his first animated film, Gary Larson’s Tales From The Far Side ®, as a Halloween special on CBS television, and it quickly became a cult favorite. The film won the Grand Prix at the 1995 Annecy International Animated Film Festival in France. That film and its sequel, Gary Larson’s Tales From The Far Side ® II , were selected for numerous international film festivals, including Venice, Brussels, and Telluride, and were broadcast in various foreign countries. Both were produced with traditional cel animation, completely hand-inked and painted. Music has also been an important part of Larson’s life. He started playing the guitar at an early age, moved to the banjo for a few years, and then ultimately returned to the guitar. Since retiring from daily newspaper syndication, Larson has focused his creative efforts on the guitar and his passion for j