Beyond The Far Side®: Far Side
Autor Gary Larsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 2 aug 1983
Apreciem în primul rând ilustrațiile care definesc universul Beyond The Far Side®: linii simple, dar extrem de expresive, capabile să transmită o întreagă narațiune absurdă într-un singur cadru. Calitatea vizuală a desenelor lui Gary Larson nu este doar estetică, ci are un rol instructiv în decodarea unui umor care sfidează logica convențională. Fiecare pagină a acestui volum paperback ne invită să privim lumea printr-o lentilă deformată, unde animalele și oamenii fac schimb de roluri în situații de un suprarealism mușcător. Ca și The Far Side® Gallery 5, acest volum pune accent pe densitatea vizuală a glumelor, dar păstrează un stil propriu de prospețime brută, fiind a doua compilație istorică a seriei. Considerăm că forța acestor desene rezidă în capacitatea de a transforma banalul în bizar, oferind o experiență de lectură fragmentată, ideală pentru momentele de relaxare. Deși este o operă din 1983, umorul rămâne surprinzător de actual, demonstrând de ce Gary Larson este considerat un inovator al genului. Recomandăm parcurgerea acestui volum ca pe un exercițiu de imaginație, unde textul minimal lasă ilustrația să poarte greutatea satirei sociale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0836211499
Pagini: 104
Dimensiuni: 206 x 140 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.17 kg
Ediția:Original
Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Colecția Andrews McMeel Publishing
Seria Far Side
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această colecție celor care apreciază umorul inteligent, absurd și observațiile acide asupra naturii umane. Cititorul câștigă acces la o bucată din istoria benzii desenate americane, într-un format ușor de parcurs. Este motivul perfect pentru a descoperi de ce Gary Larson a revoluționat paginile de divertisment, oferind o alternativă subversivă la benzile desenate clasice, potrivită pentru oricine dorește o pauză de râs inteligent.
Despre autor
Gary Larson, născut în 1950, este creatorul fenomenului internațional Far Side. Prin panourile sale unice, a introdus în anii '80 un set de dispozitive estetice și tonuri comice care au provocat și încântat cititorii din întreaga lume. Opera sa este marcată de o perspectivă filosofică neconvențională, adesea comparată cu o realitate alternativă la conformismul epocii sale. Larson a transformat formatul scurt al benzii desenate într-o formă de artă recunoscută, fiind un autor de succes în topurile New York Times și un punct de referință pentru artiștii contemporani.
Notă biografică
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 another fitting tribute, the scientific community named a chewing louse after Larson (Strigiphilus garylarsoni), 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 jazz.
At the end of its run, The Far Side® appeared in nearly two thousand newspapers. It in turn spawned twenty-three The Far Side® books, including sixteen collections, five anthologies, and two retrospectives, twenty-two of which appeared on the New York Times Best Sellers list. Over the years, more than forty-one million books and seventy-nine million calendars have been sold, and The Far Side® has been translated into more than seventeen languages.
As for his inspiration, Larson often cites his family’s “morbid sense of humor” growing up and how his older brother loved to scare him whenever he got the chance. He was also once quoted as saying, “You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again.” He attributes much of his success to the caffeine in the coffee he drinks daily.
Larson currently lives in the coffee capital of the United States—Seattle, Washington—with his wife, Toni.
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