Bad bedtime stories" he used to tell the children on long trips were the main subject matter of the first book of the comic strip: a series of 10-15 page comic stories told in two pages per week; it ran from January 3, 1961 to March 12, 1968. The second "book" titled "Merry Go Round Book of Tales" (later "Merry Christmas Book of Tales") was a series of 10-15 page short stories that ran from September 10, 1961 to December 5, 1968. Kentucky Fried Comics was a book series that appeared in the early 1980s. It consisted of reprints of Larson's strips from the early 1940s through the early 1950s. Kentuck's Fried Comics also served as an occasional source of inspiration for Larson's own stories. From 1989 to 1995, Kentucky Fried Comics had reprints of Larson's strips from the 1930s through the 1940s. The most recent book reprints his 1950s-era comics. In 2005, a new book was published by Pendulum Press of Atlanta, Georgia. This new book consisted of all Larson's Christmas stories in one volume. Awards His stories were the basis for one of the first LPs to win a Grammy, KFC's The Adventures of Furry Potter and His Pals in 1964. Its success was primarily due to the fact that the album was packaged with a coloring book that came with a free pencil and "potato head" (the face of a jack-o'-lantern cutout) for people to color. References Category:American comics artists Category:1941 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from Louisville, Kentucky Category:Kentucky State University alumni Category:20th-century American artists Category:21st-century American artists Category:20th-century American writers Category:21st-century American writers Category:20th-century American male writers Category:21st-century American male writers Category:American male artists Category:American male writers Category:American children's writers Category:Writers from Louisville, Kentucky Category:Comic strip cartoonists