The Strip Thing: Richard Thompson on Cul de Sac
By Zack Smith
posted: 2008-10-16 12:05:00 ET
Cartoonist Richard Thompson’s newspaper comic Cul de Sac is one of the most acclaimed strips in recent years. Chronicling the world through the eyes of four-year-old Alice Otterloop, her neurotic brother Petey and the rest of her family, CdS combines witty dialogue, lush visuals, and a dead-on depiction of suburban family life (that, and conversations with a classroom guinea pig). If your paper doesn’t carry it, you can read the last 30 days worth of strips here.
Cul de Sac’s first collection, This Exit, was recently published by Andrews & McMeel with an introduction from Calvin & Hobbes’ Bill Watterson. Thompson, who’s also well-known for his Washington Post series Richard’s Poor Almanac and the much-circulated George W. Bush poem “Raise the Pie Higher,” stopped by to chat with us about his strip.
October 18, 2008 at 11:32 am
Zack! Nice piece, even if the subject is kind of a blowhard.