{"id":2376,"date":"2016-08-18T12:28:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:28:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2376"},"modified":"2016-08-18T12:28:20","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T20:28:20","slug":"gary-larson-cartoonist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/?p=2376","title":{"rendered":"Gary Larson, Cartoonist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the non-anniversary of Gary Larson\u2019s retirement, which was around December 1994. Gee, it occurs to me that many people have grown quite up without knowing about this wonderful cartoonist. He introduced a madcap style of&#160; cartooning that has been followed by others. When he left I felt bereft, but I just found two of his final cartoons, playing off the Wizard of Oz 1939 movie, in its final scenes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1294garylarsongoodbye1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1294garylarsongoodbye1\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1294garylarsongoodbye1\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1294garylarsongoodbye1_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"725\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There were all these characters he drew standing around. I realized I loved them.<\/p>\n<p>Then he drew this one:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1294garylarsongoodbye2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"1294garylarsongoodbye2\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; padding-right: 0px\" border=\"0\" alt=\"1294garylarsongoodbye2\" src=\"http:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/1294garylarsongoodbye2_thumb.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"721\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I remembered that I love this stuff&#8212;as do millions of others&#8212;and I wanted to honor his cartoons. I got a kick out of them. I like humor, jokes, cartoons, comic books, and the like, and this has been an influence I\u2019ve shared with my age cohorts, but I shouldn\u2019t take it for granted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the non-anniversary of Gary Larson\u2019s retirement, which was around December 1994. Gee, it occurs to me that many people have grown quite up without knowing about this wonderful cartoonist. He introduced a madcap style of&#160; cartooning that has been followed by others. When he left I felt bereft, but I just found two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,24,15,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-mandalas-doodles-scripts","category-autobiographical","category-favoritethings","category-play-and-spontaneity"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2377,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376\/revisions\/2377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blatner.com\/adam\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}