Gary Larson Quotes
You always hear a headline like this, 'Man Killed By Shark', you never hear it from the other perspective, 'Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food'.
Larson, Gary. The Complete Far Side. Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003.
The risk of sharks and pigs to man is each very small. A few cases of wild hogs—there are millions of them in the world—attacking humans (particularly children) occur annually throughout the world. But the deaths from pigs are usually from diseases that the pigs carry that the person who eats the pig acquires. Shark attacks get a great deal of publicity, like terrorist attacks. Problems with pigs, snakes and other animals less so. So most people have a misperception of the relative risk.
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.