‘Cul de Sac,’ the Comic Strip You Need to Read
I had all but given up on newspaper comic strips in recent years. My favorites (Calvin and Hobbes, The Far Side, Peanuts, etc.) had disappeared and every new innovative comic appeared online, not in the funny pages.
Then a friend pointed me to Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson of the Washington Post. Like many of the great strips, Cul de Sac features a young central character (Alice, in this case) who simultaneously looks at the world with the dreamy innocence of youth and the cynical sensibilities of an adult.
That balancing act is consistently funny on a daily basis, as Thompson finds the most creative ways to point out the lunacy of the world from both children’s and adult’s perspective. My favorite strip might be the one below, in which Alice’s brother opines on the world of comic books:
So, I have a new newspaper comics strip. Maybe the "funnies" page isn’t dead yet. Or maybe it is: I read Cul de Sac online.
Where do you read "Cul de Sac" on line? I found it here: http://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/Richard Thomson also has in interesting blog: http://richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com/I agree, "Cul de Sac" is a good comic, funny–sailing in the "little kids with big ideas" wake of Peanuts and Calvin and Hobbes.
Yeah, I use gocomics and have it sent to my email every morning. I would read the print edition, probably, but it doesn't run in the Atlanta paper (I actually subscribe, being a former newspaperman).
Am I the only one struck by the similarity of Richard Thompson's drawings of children to those unfortunate victims of Progeria disease?