As stated here and elsewhere, there are some strips I have to restrain myself from using too often, and “Cul de Sac” leads that small group. But today’s strip is not just timely in light of Richard Thompson’s having won the Reuben this past weekend but is also a very solid demonstration of why he […]
Michael Cavna of the Washington Post has a lengthy-but-fascinating profile of Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson on his Comic Riffs site, for which he interviewed Calvin & Hobbes creator Bill Watterson, and Doonesbury creator Garry Trudeau and several other people who know what they are talking about.Fascinating but lengthy. You don’t have time to […]
Among the things we might consider to save tax money, how about cutting off these bloodsuckers? Tom the Dancing Bug on the scam artists and thieves who recruit the underemployed to apply for Pell Grants and student loans, and to use up their GI Bill funding on their behalf, pressuring people to sign up who […]
In today’s Cul de Sac, Petey escapes into the world of Little Neuro scholarship, which is different than escaping into the world of Little Neuro himself. Alice is suitably impressed. I don’t know if you’re allowed to make fun of comics scholarship or not, but there you have it. And I’m pretty sure you’re not […]
Wednesday is usually a day for one-off gag strips, because all the story arcs are pretty well in motion and it’s hard to bring readers who haven’t been following them up to date, and they’re not delivering punchlines yet anyway, so there’s really no point in trying.However, Cul de Sac tends to operate on a […]