Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for February 11, 2012

Hot chocolate, even with 6 million marshmallows, can’t cure a squashed snowman.

Make the snowman out of marshmallows………..that may help ease the pain.

He probably would have melted within the hour anyway.

Mr. Otterloop has committed snowmanicide on Alice’s proud accomplishment! There aren’t enough marshmallows in the universe to assuage his four-year-old daughter’s tears. It’s the heartbreak only a child can know, and nothing can ever make up for it—a psychological scar that will never vanish entirely….

Man, that is the saddest comic strip I have read in a long time.

Its a lifetime of shrinks for Alice.

Poor baby!

Poor Dad! He’ll wear the guilt forever! He’s so sweet wanting to make it up to his little girl.

I thought it HAD melted.

Shock (Dill) and awwwwe (Alice)…

Alas little snowman, we hardly knew ye’!

It’s in B&W because it is a “repeat” from Feb 14th 2009, ( http://www.gocomics.com/culdesac/2009/02/14)

Thompson is undergoing a new regimen of treatment for Parkinson’s disease. He was diagnosed more than a year ago.The past month or two has been comics from his first book.We all hope he recovers soon!

Stand and deliver.

Well, although it was perfect, it was so TINY. Honest mistake but Alice WILL be scarred forever.

I feel your pain, Alice. My father was a killjoy too.

THIS is why Richard won the Reuben – this strip is GREAT.

murderer