Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 18, 2019

Snoresville!

If you flip the pages fast, does it make a mini-movie?

Some might call it boredom.

The tension is now at a fever pitch. Does anyone know what Alice’s Father does for a living?

Yes. Peter commutes to Commuter Inc. in a Family Messerschmitt!

It’s semi-autobiographical.

an artist goes with what he knows.

Can’t wait for page 300, when the intrepid hero scratches his nose! The excitement builds…!

Who knew that “Toad Zombies” had a strong Marcel Proust influence?

At some point, he’ll have a story drawn one panel per page. It’s a huge hit as a flipbook, but he’s upset that people aren’t taking the time to go through it slowly and appreciating the story in its paced progression.

Did we just discover Little Neuro’s secret identity?

I wonder if there will actually be any Toad Zombies in it…

Just wait till page 249. The guy drops the book.

It’s gonna be a classic, Petey, a real arm gnaw’er!

And what were those 4 middle panels?

No, Petey. Tension in the room is when you blow a bubble and it’s in the bathtub…

Back when LA law was popular, my aunt loved the ‘dancing baby’. When I made her a flip book of the baby she was amazed I could do that and thought I could make a lot of money reproducing it. It was hard to explain to my darling 80 year old aunt about copy rights and trade marks, etc.

Petey is one of those long-form novelists, like Charles Dickens. Patience, Alice….