Lots of good ones, but for me, any day that has Gary Larson in it is off to a good start.
... Larson said his family has "a morbid sense of humor", [and] that he was influenced by the "paranoid" sense of humor of his older brother, Dan [who] played pranks on Gary, for example by taking advantage of his fear of monsters under the bed by waiting in the closet for the right moment to pounce.... Dan also nurtured Gary's love of scientific knowledge. They caught animals in Puget Sound and placed them in terrariums in the basement, and also made a small desert ecosystem.
In 1987, Larson married Toni Carmichael, an anthropologist...