Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson has been awarded this year’s Eisner Award for Best Humor Publication for his The Complete Cul de Sac collection. Chris Sparks accepted the award on his behalf. He posted on Facebook afterward, “Cul de Sac, the last great comic strip won the greatest cartooning award, The Eisner. The world […]
I have in my hot little hands a copy of Richard Thompson’s The Complete Cul de Sac. Let me just get the negative stuff out of the way up front. Looking at this box set, I can’t help but feel a bit cheated that there are only two volumes. It’s not that anyone cut corners […]
The much anticipated Bill Watterson, Richard Thompson twin exhibit opened last weekend at the Billy Ireland Library at Ohio State University. Curated by Jenny Robb and Caitlin McGurk, by all reports, it surpassed all expectations. The best play by play of the event came from Chris Sparks’s Facebook account. Since it’s not open to public, […]
If there is but one book I’ll be purchasing this year, this is it. More details over at GoComics, or hells bells – head over to Amazon and pre-order.
Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac became an instant classic when it was introduced in 2007. When he announced he was retiring the strip in 2012 due to his battle with Parkinson’s Disease, it was was met with sadness by fans and admirers of his work. Luckily it was soon announced that a complete collection was […]
When Richard Thompson retired his award winning comic strip, Cul de Sac, last year the one hope I had was that a complete collection would be released at some point. I’m happy to learn that such a collection will be released later this year. You can pre-order now on Amazon.
Rob Tornoe interviewed Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson about the decision to end the strip. Some of the answers are canned responses that I’ve seen else where. But a couple include new information. Now that you’ve created a bit of free time for yourself, do you have the strength to work on any personal […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson went under the knife last Friday to have a chip implanted in his brain to alleviate some of the symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. Friend and fellow cartoonist Nick Galifianakis was there and fed fellow friend Mike Rhode updates on the progress and condition. You can read the posts in […]
The retirement of Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac opens up a good number precious slots on the comic pages. From memory, I want to put the number of newspapers above 350 – an impressive number for a feature so young. Typically when there is a larger shift like this I try to compile a list […]
Today is the last Cul de Sac in syndication. I use the qualification “in syndication” because of my personal hope that Richard Thompson will be able to return to it at some point in the future. Richard’s assistant Stacy Curtis observed the day by placing a wooden heart on a manhole cover: Every time I […]
Michael Cavna has a round up of tributes from fellow cartoonists as Richard Thompson?s Cul de Sac takes a graceful exit from the syndication stage due to Richard?s health. Michael: To mark Thompson?s five-year run with ?Cul de Sac,? which won the esteemed Reuben Award last year and has received Ignatz and Harvey awards this […]
Cul de Sac creator Richard Thompson notes that the strip is five years old and he’s posted early – pre-syndication, pre-Washington Post versions of the strip while he was still working with the concept. He writes: Here are the first two strips I tried with the Otterloop family, and you can see just how badly […]
Stacy Curtis took over inking Richard Thompson?s Cul de Sac in March, so he had a first hand look at what went into Richard?s process for creating the strip and the factors in Richard?s decision to retire the strip. Regarding his short-run experience as the Cul de Sac inker, Stacy writes:: As you may know, […]
Richard Thompson, the creator of Cul de Sac, has decided to retire the strip next month. In a letter to newspapers, Universal Uclick’s Lee Salem writes: On September 9, 2007, the remarkable talent of Richard Thompson hit the newspaper pages in the comic strip Cul de Sac. The buzz began even before the strip debuted; […]
Yesterday, I received a review copy of Chris Sparks’ “Team Cul de Sac”. I’ll quote what I tweeted a half hour later, “It stopped everything until I thumbed through every page. Fantastic book!” The concept of having so many cartoonists from the biggest names in comics to the not so big all drawing on the […]