COMIC ARTIST

Gary Larson

1950 - Today

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Gary Larson (born August 14, 1950) is an American cartoonist who created The Far Side, a single-panel cartoon series that was syndicated internationally to more than 1,900 newspapers for fifteen years. The series ended with Larson's retirement on January 1, 1995, though since 2020 Larson has published additional comics online. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Larson has received more than 2,374,308 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Gary Larson is the 186th most popular comic artist (down from 174th in 2019), the 12,510th most popular biography from United States (down from 11,842nd in 2019) and the 48th most popular American Comic Artist.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among COMIC ARTISTS

Among comic artists, Gary Larson ranks 186 out of 226. Before him are Scott McCloud, Yoshitoshi ABe, Joe Kubert, Garth Ennis, Arina Tanemura, and Daniel Clowes. After him are Koyoharu Gotouge, Natsuki Takaya, Walt Kelly, Kevin Eastman, Joann Sfar, and Nisio Isin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Gary Larson ranks 662. Before him are Vasile Iordache, Alan Rosenberg, Nikolay Kruglov, Siegbert Horn, Roy Blunt, and Stefan Junge. After him are Fatoumata Coulibaly, Zdravka Yordanova, George Nelson, Zinaida Amosova, Tony Wilson, and Luisa Fernanda Rudi.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Larson ranks 12,510 out of 20,380. Before him are Sinnamon Love (1973), Katherine Maher (1983), Robert F. Stockton (1795), Ann B. Davis (1926), Reggie Fils-Aimé (1961), and Mary-Kate Olsen (1986). After him are Jan Brewer (1944), John 5 (1971), Cindy McCain (1954), Ron Simmons (1958), Katharine Drexel (1858), and Howard Hesseman (1940).

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Among COMIC ARTISTS In United States

Among comic artists born in United States, Gary Larson ranks 48. Before him are Bill Watterson (1958), Scott Adams (1957), Peter Laird (1954), Robert Kirkman (1978), Scott McCloud (1960), and Daniel Clowes (1961). After him are Walt Kelly (1913), Kevin Eastman (1962), Bruce Timm (1961), Nina Paley (1968), John Romita Jr. (1956), and Jeph Loeb (1958).

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