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Gary Larson Made Me Do It.

I loved my years of living on Capital Hill in Washington, D.C. I was your typical hippie-turned-yuppie. Still thought like a sixties, guy, dressed like an eighties one. I liked my paycheck more than a bag of pot or the Beatles White Album.

Several friends called me one day with an invitation to see a Gary Larson Far Side exhibit at the Smithsonian. I didn't want to go. I was tired after a long day's work. They talked me into it.

Don't misunderstand why I wanted to stay home, given this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I loved and still love The Far Side, but at the end of the day I was usually exhausted and the though that went through my head was, "Why wait in a long line for an exhibit, when I can simply open the Post or Times any day of the week and there's The Far Side.

They were persistent and I got dressed. They picked me up and we were on our way. The lines, though long, moved quickly and the exhibit was beyond my wildest imagination. The panel cartoons had been blown up onto 5 or 6 foot poster boards and were hanging from the ceiling. Many of them were my favorites from the past.

I was like a little kid in a candy store running from one cartoon to the next. I had seen almost all of them in the Washington Post. Suddenly I was a kid again and a happy camper.

Suddenly a feeling came over me that I can't explain. It was an odd one and not very comfortable. Though I laughed and chatted with my friends about our favorites throughout the event, I remember the discomfort that I couldn't seem to shake.

I tossed and turned most the night, still wondering why I felt so sad. Then it hit me. When I had been a college student, in Dallas, at about age nineteen, I wrote close to a thousand offbeat single panel cartoons (this was in 1974), many of them in a similar spirit to The Far Side.

Everyone has dreams. Some are more potent than others. I Continued to do my homework in business clases nd had no idea why I was even in colege. But there I sat.

For anyone who has ever had an offbeat cartoon in their heads, study Gary Larson and his work and see what he had to go through to get them syndicated.

Ten years later, I launched Londons Times Cartoons with one other artist. Since that time I have worked with numerous artists and I've continued writing and assigning the cartoons. The site has become the biggest of its kind on the Internet and certainly the most visited (over 8.9 million visitors since 2005 when we began counting). The cartoon itself is nearly 11 years old. We have seven cartoon merchandise stores.

So may obstalces and naysayers, so little time. Was I to listen to the naysayers or follow my bliss? Bliss one out and I was able to make a rea contribution to the world, as small as it was. If I can do it, anyone can.

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Rick London once considered himsself a failure in every apect of his life. Now he owns 8 e-stores and a main cartoon site of offbeat incredibly funny cartoons It's All Gary Larson's Fault

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