#35: Named After the Late Thag Simmons
Has any cartoonist been more influential in the world of academia than Gary Larson? You walk down the halls of any science building in any university in the United States, and I guarantee that at least three professors will have one or more Far Side comics taped to their office doors.
And he’s been so influential that he actually is responsible for the term that paleontologists use to refer to a specific part of a stegosaurus tail, based on a comic he made about caveman paleontologists at an academic conference. How’s that for a surprising way for a cartoonist to leave their mark?