Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for May 30, 2010

Alice, have Dad cheat, and look at the ending….

I always hated marzipan.

Is that a baby Alice?

Love it Richard!

Let me know when you put it on ebay, Mr. Otterloop.

I love marzipan! But I think I would just read the last page and forget the rest – I’m not even sure that would be considered cheating with this book.

Interesting collection of animals, there.

Mr. Owl says: “Let’s find out…..One…Two…Three…(CRUNCH)…Three.”

Oh wait, that’s something else. Never mind.

Alice, you’ll just have to learn to read :þ

Who is Marzipan?

It’s “What is marzipan”, hamilter7.

Congratulations!!

To answer ”Who is Marzipan?” (rather than “what”), she’s Homestar Runner’s girlfriend. I don’t know if she’s ever been to Mars, though.

To answer “What do they call a Whopper in France?”, they don’t call it anything anymore; Burger King closed its franchises (France-chises?) there in 1997. Prior to that, though, they called it a Whopper.

I don’t like to eat marzipan. I don’t like Whoppers. I don’t like Life Cereal, regardless of Mikey. I don’t like that you might like them, either, because I demand that my opinions be validated by all those around me.

That’s why I hate Dan Piraro today. (I’ll get over it.)

This is why I learned to read at an early age. Nobody would read to me. Go for it, Alice! Declare your literary emancipation!

Ask Mom to read it, Alice-and if neccessary skip to the last page- and-and- LEARN to READ! We have to have an answer- I am fixating on “Do Martians eat Marzipan?”

I used to sculpt a lot of marzipan - a cornucopia filled with stuff on top a Thanksgiving rum cake. The Nativity figures for Christmas, too ;-) Brings back memories …

Good luck at the Reubens Richard:)

Love the great animal choices. .. I love Marzipan, the word is just great and fun word to use .. Now I wonder ” Do Martians eat Marzipan ”

Don Vanni, I remember that commercial

Richard you are a genius with crazy and wonderful story lines !

Poor Daddy just doesn’t understand or appreciate Silly. His life would be more fun if he did.

fritziod:

I demand that I demand that everybody understand and like me especially the nematode and that everybody including the wombat like Marzipan even thought I don’t know who OR what it is.

When I demand that I demand things happen. I demanded that I demanded that the spammer spell PayPal right and after two months he did.

Marzipan is delicious candy made from almonds, sugar, cherries or apricots. It can be dipped in chocolate and other nuts can be added to modify different types of marzipan. There are cookies made with the same ingredients with the addition of some flour and egg white.

Love this comic strip. When our paper first started carrying Cul De Sac I had to warm up to it…took me the third strip and I was then hooked. It’s a great strip and I think we all know someone like at least one of the characters. Good Luck on Reuben Award!

The comments are as funny as the comic! Thanks for the laughs!

Ejay, timtribbett, I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings, but the Reubens were last night. Dan Piraro took home the top prize.

(See yesterday’s comments for the play-by-play.)

Bummer, Fritzoid. I haven’t read Bizarro in years. I didn’t find it funny at all.

I would have been happy with Thompson or Wiley. (Sigh)

If anyone is interested, here’s a link to the actual awards (and of COURSE Cul de Sac is still great - it was nominated for best!)

Awards Page

Wiley was a different category (best strip), but he didn’t win either (Zits won, I think). The third nominee for Cartoonist of the Year was Stephan Pastis (Pearls Before Swine).

I personally think Piraro’s best work is behind him, but I enjoy and admire Bizarro (although I have a bias against single-panel gags). RT is still in his prime, though (who knows - Cul de Sac may even get better!), so I’d expect to see him nominated again and often.

Fritzoid is right. CDS is just getting better. I love the first yr, but I loved the second more and the third is just perfect. I am not always right but i am never wrong. This strip will go down as one of the greatest strips ever.

I just Dont like Piraro’s work. I am really shocked he won. Pastis is funny but Thompson is a masgter of art and storytelling.

Where’s the new ‘Cul-de-Sac’, dagnab it!!!

Bummer. This is one strip I really look forward to.

Me three… But perhaps Richard is a veteran and deserves the day off.

Today’s strip is here- http://tinyurl.com/28z59xe

Thank you sir. Cul de Sac is one of my favorite comics.

I wonder how the eggs will be done

Thanks, Richard!

I noticed that on Sunday both Cul de Sac and Pearls Before Swine featured poison dart frogs.

That’s probably related to both Thompson and Pastis losing to Piraro on Saturday night, but whether it’s cause or effect I have no idea. If Richard had won, might yesterday’s “Bizarro” have featured a poison dart frog, instead? If “Bizarro” had featured a poison dart frog and “Cul de Sac” had not, might Richard have won the Reuben? Are Thompson and Pastis preparing to poison up their darts for Piraro?

Well, Alice, all I can tell you is that Podkayne never had any marzipan (of course, that might be because Podkayne didn’t LIKE marzipan, come to think about it…)

RE: Monday’s cartoon. Dill’s brothers are at it again! :-)

That’s the best I could find too, Marg! Where’s the strip for today?

Well, dammit. Here it is on my blog again- http://tinyurl.com/25nfc9m

Thank you for posting the link, Richard! I start every day with coffee and Cul de Sac.

Again? What’s going on? Thanks, Richard!

poodles look funny when they r green