The Far Side® Gallery 4: Far Side
Autor Gary Larsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – sep 1993
Descoperim în The Far Side® Gallery 4 contextul ideal pentru a evada din cotidian prin intermediul umorului absurd și ireverențios care a definit o întreagă generație de cititori. Putem afirma că acest volum reprezintă o fereastră către mintea surprinzătoare a lui Gary Larson, unde animalele capătă trăsături umane, iar oamenii se regăsesc în ipostaze hilare și adesea suprarealiste. Structura cărții, cu ilustrații color vibrante, facilitează o parcurgere rapidă, dar plină de substanță, invitându-ne să zăbovim asupra fiecărui detaliu vizual care construiește poanta. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea sa de a transforma banalul în bizar, menținând un ritm alert al lecturii. Pe aceeași linie cu Wiener Dog Art sau Night of the Crash-Test Dummies, acest titlu continuă tradiția seriei Far Side, dar se distinge printr-o selecție care pune un accent sporit pe evoluția stilului vizual al autorului și pe complexitatea scenariilor sale dintr-un singur panou. Este o lucrare esențială pentru cei care apreciază satira fină și perspectivele neconvenționale asupra naturii și științei.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0836217241
Pagini: 172
Ilustrații: colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 216 x 277 x 13 mm
Greutate: 0.52 kg
Ediția:Original
Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Colecția Andrews McMeel Publishing
Seria Far Side
De ce să citești această carte
Recomandăm această carte oricărui cititor care dorește să își antreneze spiritul critic prin râs. The Far Side® Gallery 4 oferă o doză concentrată de umor inteligent, fiind perfectă pentru momentele de relaxare. Veți câștiga o perspectivă proaspătă asupra lumii, învățând să vedeți ridicolul în situațiile obișnuite de zi cu zi, totul prin prisma geniului comic al lui Gary Larson.
Despre autor
Gary Larson este un caricaturist american de renume mondial, celebru pentru crearea seriei de benzi desenate Far Side. Timp de peste 15 ani, lucrările sale au fost publicate în sute de ziare din întreaga lume, devenind un fenomen cultural. Stilul său este caracterizat de un amestec unic de curiozitate științifică, dragoste pentru lumea animală și o înclinație spre absurd. Deși s-a retras din activitatea editorială zilnică în 1995, moștenirea sa continuă să influențeze generații de umoriști și ilustratori, personajele sale — de la vaci filozofice la oameni de știință excentrici — rămânând iconice.
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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