I think it took Richard Thompson a few strips after his enforced layoff to get back in the swing of things over at Cul de Sac, but he’s back to knocking them over the wall on a regular basis. This is the opposite of Saturday Night Live Syndrome, where, a few seasons in, you learned to […]
I don’t know the nature of the treatments Richard Thompson was recently undergoing, but one of the side effects evidently was the ability to see into the near future, or possibly the far distant past or perhaps to eavesdrop on editorial meetings at Nature Magazine.Whatever the case, he is back at the helm of Cul […]
It’s All About You may have to go on my list of comics I have to resist putting on here too often.Today’s strip, however, is about something that concerns me and, although I’ve touched on it in other contexts, I don’t know that I’ve addressed this full face: We really are “amusing ourselves to death,” […]
If you are a fan of Cul de Sac but not a frequent visitor to Richard Thompson’s blog, you’re missing half the fun.Given his years of illustration work and cartooning, Richard has an extensive backlog of wonderful things he can pull up for nearly any occasion, as with this 2003 salute to the Westminster Kennel […]
As reported earlier, Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has put the strip into reruns for a few weeks while he undergoes some Parkinson’s therapy, but, since Sundays are generally on a different schedule and I don’t remember ever seeing this one, I think it’s new.And I don’t much care if it’s a rerun because […]
Timing is everything in comedy.I was notified Friday that a client had direct-deposited a substantial amount of money to my bank account, but apparently it didn’t actually get posted to the account before close of business Friday, and so, what with the MLK holiday today, I won’t see it until tomorrow.Which I understand and which […]
One of the problems with making “Cul de Sac” the CSOTD is that Richard Thompson can contain an entire rant within, in this case, five panels. He leaves me little upon which to fulminate.But not today.In the real world, I edit a publication for middle-school students which often contains book and movie reviews. There is […]
This is so cool. Legendary cartoonist Sergio Aragones has joined the Team Cul de Sac effort with a piece that stands alone as a tribute to Alice’s scary powers of being Alice.And the coolest part is that, giant in the form that he is, he’s not necessarily the biggest giant in the list of cartoonists […]
Mrs. Otterloop must be thinking of life in some other world, where trees are at least 30 or 40 years old, and not spindly saplings propped up with wires and wrapped in protective tape like they are in the Cul de Sac.Generals always want to fight the last war and parents always want to get […]
I suspect that the kids who had Lincoln Peirce as an art teacher or coach in high school had a pretty good time. He seems to have a good sense of their lives.Big Nate is immensely popular with middle-school kids, and I suspect it’s because Peirce remembers what it was like, but, rather than totally […]
I’ve said before that Richard Thompson remembers childhood better than anybody else working that beat, and today’s Cul de Sac is both hilarious on the face of it but also a reminder of how thin the barrier between reality and fantasy was in those days.Never mind the Tooth Fairy and other official fantasies. We also […]
And you thought Richard Thompson only dredged up long-suppressed memories of pre-school!Today’s Cul-de-Sac explores the last day of big-kid school by bringing back tortured memories of the locker bay, with comicdom’s favorite neurotic kid epitomizing the neurotic kid we all become when we think too hard about lockers. It’s a salute to Petey’s limited savoire […]
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 […]