Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 04, 2025

Antithetical siblings

The unredacted psychiatric case history of the cartoonist sounds interesting.

In a padded cell, one presumes.

I wonder if Mr. Thompson ever tore, stomped, flushed or shot at any of his drawings? I always imagine they spring fully-formed from his head, not needing any editing.

Resewn shredded sketches….regurgitated sketches eaten by starving cartoonists…..

Great bedtime story

Does the prehistoric Teradactyl have anything to do with 1 trillion bytes or is involved with redacting secret notes? Just wondering…

Alice. So cute there.

And Petey’s still on the second frame of the first cartoon.

Petey got me reading the for-real Little Nemo in Slumberland, right here on GoComics. 115 years old and a hoot. I do have to enlarge the screen to read the dialog, though. Newspapers were printed on much larger sheets of paper back then.

I don’t wanna see the sketches that were torn up and stomped on, then flushed. But I guess seeing them might be a little more appealing than being the guy who had to retrieve them.

Ah, the editing process! ☺

One way to get a nap in is to hang with big brother! Yikes

I’m not sure I want to know how the flushed sketches were recovered.

There’s a technique called stippling where one creates a shading effect by making lots of little dots. I wonder how birdshot peppering compares with that.

Not a comic related series, but if anyone has come across Christopher Tolkein’s collections of his father’s jottings in the Book of Lost Tales and similar books in the 12 part series … this might be familiar.

Sounds like the super deluxe box set reissues musical artists put out. Good only for completists. I am one of those for Bob Dylan but even I can’t stand some of the stuff on the reissues. There’s a reason the artist shelved them.

He forgot the ones used solely for toilet paper.

Cartoonists have their flaws, like anyone else, but overall I admire their ability to use their brains.

Richard Thompson at his most reflective?

Wow! What a book! And it even puts your little sister to sleep. Who could ask for anything more?

I was fascinated by the thought process of how authors decide on how the page is to be presented when I read Kurt Vonnegut’s Welcome to the Monkey House.

This reminded me of one of my old clients who droned on about almost anything that occurred to him (or ever had). My exit line was “But now I’m just wasting your time, so what do I need to order for you today? Always worked.

The next day:

“Mom, can you ask Petey to read Little Neuro to me tonight?”