University Place is a city of 35 000 located just outside of Tacoma. Ironically, there is no university here. Instead, the University of Puget Sound had bought the land here in the 1800s as they were looking to build a new campus. It didn't work out so the university sold the land to the city.  Gary Larson, famous for creating The Far Side  single panel cartoon series, grew up here. The Far Side  ran from 1 January 1980 to 1 January 1995. At its peak, The Far Side  was in more that 1900 newspapers. The Far Side  books, 23 to date, have sold more that 45 million copies.  Since 2020, Larson has published additional comics online.