Home / Section: Comic strips
Washington Post Welcomes Cul De Sac Back to the Paper
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac started out in the Washington Post Magazine 3 years ago as a weekly feature in the Washington Post Magazine. The Post has picked up the feature now that it has gone into syndication.
Tom Shroder, editor of the WP Magazine writes:
Alice is the first among equals in the ensemble of weirdly familiar characters populating Richard Thompson’s “Cul de Sac.” The comic strip debuted on this page February 8, 2004, following a brief courtship. Thompson had been drawing brilliant one-off cartoons for the Style section in his “Richard’s Poor Almanac.” I proposed the strip idea, mainly because I wanted to see what would happen if he created some characters and stuck with them. If memory serves, it took about a year to schedule lunch. After that, we lost momentum.
But, eventually, Thompson came through with what I believe is one of the freshest, most engaging strips published. It has warmth, an inner life that is sorely lacking from so many occupants of the comics pages.
Tools
Related Stories
- Richard Thompson named best DC cartoonist
- Get Fuzzy gets edited in the Washington Post (Updated)
- Cox and Forkum Criticize Washington Post for Not Running Opus
- Washington Examiner replaces their comics with puzzles
- Clay Bennett fires back on Joint Chiefs
- Washington Post to drop Tom the Dancing Bug
- ‘Washington Post’ To Cut 80 Newsroom Jobs, Sources Say
- Washington Post: Maybe we shouldn’t have pulled Candorville
- Post picks Little Dog Lost; 64% polled like FBOFW
- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette fires Tim Menees
Community Comments
No comments yet.
Join the discussion!
PLEASE NOTE: Please use your first AND last name when posting a comment. Please refrain from swearing. It's one of the rules that I enforce strictly. Thanks.