I love the fact that the arrangement of four spikes at the end of a Stegosaurus' tail is actually named after the late Thag Simmons.
Fitting he should "name" something scientific, when something scientific is named after him. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strigiphilus_garylarsoni
That's so cool. A type of chewing louse found on owls. How specific.
I remember around the time when it happened. Larson was THRILLED.
'Larson also reprints a letter from an entomologist proposing to name a newly discovered species of chewing lice after Larson, Strigiphilus garylarsoni. The scientist explains that he did this "to honor the enormous contribution that my colleagues and I feel you have made to biology through your cartoons." The image of this insect also appears in the form of a geometric design on the inside front and back covers.'
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prehistory_of_The_Far_Side#
Thanks for the nostalgia trip!
I also love it when a rather limited media format like comic strips is so deep (I don't know any other word) that it influences the real world like that. Another example:
Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
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