Gary Larson Quotes
If I didn't understand a cartoon in a newspaper, I'd just turn the page.
Larson, Gary. The Prehistory of The Far Side. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 1989.
Marlette was inundated by complaints from Muslims for his 2002 cartoon depiction of Muhammad driving a Ryder rental truck like the one used by convicted Oklahoma City terrorist bomber, Timothy McVeigh. The caption was, “What would Muhammad drive?” He was front-page news in Saudi Arabia and other Islamic nations. He received death threats. The Council on American-Islamic Relations and the Muslim World League both demanded an apology. Marlette refused. When he was killed in an automobile crash in July of 2007, many Muslims believed that this was the retribution of Allah.
The President was with the way the press had handled some press releases from the White House and wanted to give the press less information.
His statement occurred in his reaction to a National Basketball Association owner who had been recorded making some very racist statements to his girlfriend.
Gary Larson is an American cartoonist. He is the creator of 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 in September 2019 his website alluded to a "new online era of 'The Far Side.'" On July 8, 2020, Larson released three comics, his first in 25 years. His twenty-three books of collected cartoons have combined sales of more than forty-five million copies.
