Nature's Way is an American newspaper cartoon series by Gary Larson published in 1976.
It launched his career in cartooning and eventually led to his popular The Far Side series in 1980.
Nature's Way began as six comic strips submitted in 1976 to the Pacific Search, a local magazine in Seattle.
These were enough to get the strip canceled in 1980, just a few days after Larson got a contract with the San Francisco Chronicle, which jump-started his career.
In The Prehistory of the Far Side, Larson commented, "They could have called it Revenge of the Zucchini People for all I cared" as he was so happy to be eagerly accepted into the San Francisco Chronicle.