The Far Side® Gallery 5: Far Side
Autor Gary Larsonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 sep 1995
Găsim în această carte o organizare bazată pe succesiunea rapidă a vignetelor, unde complexitatea nu vine din dificultatea execuției, ci din profunzimea umorului absurd care necesită un timp de reflexie imediat. The Far Side® Gallery 5 este o colecție care ne invită să explorăm lumea prin lentila distorsionată și fascinantă a lui Gary Larson. Descoperim aici un univers unde animalele și oamenii schimbă adesea rolurile, punând sub semnul întrebării logica cotidiană. Cine a savurat perspectivele din The Chickens Are Restless va aprecia aici modul în care Larson rafinează temele predilecte — de la vaci cu vieți secrete la situații antropomorfice bizare — aducând un plus de coeziune vizuală în cadrul seriei Far Side. Stilul este minimalist, dar impactul fiecărei pagini este garantat de capacitatea autorului de a surprinde ridicolul existenței în doar câteva linii de creion. Față de volume precum Wiener Dog Art, această a cincea galerie oferă o selecție matură, demonstrând de ce Gary Larson a rămas o figură centrală în beletristica de umor grafic. Considerăm că forța acestui volum rezidă în capacitatea de a transforma banalul în ceva absolut neașteptat, păstrând totodată acel ton sec și inteligent care a definit întreaga serie.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0836204255
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 211 x 274 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.51 kg
Ediția:Original
Editura: Andrews McMeel Publishing
Colecția Andrews McMeel Publishing
Seria Far Side
De ce să citești această carte
Pentru pasionații de umor inteligent și suprarealism, această carte oferă o evadare rapidă din convențional. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă nouă asupra lumii, învățând să găsească amuzamentul în cele mai ciudate unghiuri ale realității. Este cadoul ideal pentru cineva care apreciază satira fină și benzile desenate care nu se tem să fie diferite.
Despre autor
Gary Larson este un caricaturist american celebru, creatorul seriei de benzi desenate Far Side, care a fost publicată în peste 1.900 de ziare din întreaga lume timp de cincisprezece ani. Lucrările sale sunt recunoscute pentru umorul lor adesea bazat pe situații logice imposibile, antropomorfism și o fascinație pentru lumea naturală, în special pentru insecte și animale mari. Larson a primit numeroase distincții pentru contribuția sa la cultura pop, iar volumele sale, inclusiv The Complete Far Side, au devenit bestselleruri internaționale, influențând generații întregi de ilustratori și umoriști prin stilul său vizual unic și semnătura grafică inconfundabilă.
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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