Editing Terry Gilliam (section)

== Early life and education ==
Terry Gilliam was born on 22 November 1940 in [[Minneapolis]], Minnesota, the son of Beatrice (née Vance) and James Hall Gilliam.<ref name="Gilliam"/> His father was a travelling salesman for [[Folgers]] before becoming a carpenter. Soon after, they moved to nearby [[Medicine Lake, Minnesota]].<ref>{{cite book|title=The Pythons: Autobiography by the Pythons|year=2005|publisher=St. Martin's Griffin|location=New York|isbn=978-0-312-31145-2}}</ref> In 1952, the family moved to the Los Angeles neighborhood of [[Panorama City, Los Angeles|Panorama City]]. Gilliam attended [[Birmingham High School]]. During high school, he began to avidly read ''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' magazine, then edited by [[Harvey Kurtzman]], which would later influence Gilliam's work.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Gilliam|first1=Terry|last2=Sterritt|first2=David| author-link2=David Sterritt|last3=Rhodes|first3=Lucille|title=Terry Gilliam: Interviews|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8eDE0hce0kEC&pg=PA65|access-date=7 October 2010|date=April 2004|publisher=Univ. Press of Mississippi|isbn=978-1-57806-624-7|page=67|quote=''[[Mad (magazine)|Mad]]'' comics inspired everything we ever did. (p. 67)}}</ref>

Gilliam graduated from [[Occidental College]] in 1962 with a [[Bachelor of Arts]] in political science.<ref name="OXY">{{cite web |url=https://www.oxy.edu/news/terry-gilliam-62-honored-british-film-academy |title=Terry Gilliam '62 Honored by British Film Academy |work=Oxy |publisher=Occidental College |date=9 February 2009 |access-date=23 November 2014 |archive-date=5 April 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405152942/https://www.oxy.edu/news/terry-gilliam-62-honored-british-film-academy |url-status=dead }}</ref>