Santa Rosa Press Democrat considering adding Cul de Sac to current comics page

Read the story here - 

Press Democrat Adding Two Strips

 D. D. Degg  

October 21, 2025  

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/20/press-democrat-adding-two-comics/ 

DD says, "The paper is giving comic fans the choice of six comic strips – Arctic Circle, Crabgrass, Cul de Sac, Dumplings, Macanudo, and Sherman's Lagoon."

My comment on the Daily Cartoonist site is "As much as I love him, and his strip, there's no way Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac should be considered for this. It's not even a zombie comic strip. He's been gone for years now, and the comics page should belong to living cartoonists."

Alan Gardner remembers meeting Richard Thompson (on what would have been his 68th birthday)

TDC @ 20: Meeting Your Heroes

 Alan Gardner  

October 8, 2025  

https://www.dailycartoonist.com/index.php/2025/10/08/tdc-20-meeting-your-heroes/

Danielle Corsetto draws Alice for Team Cul de Sac

Chris Sparks will be doing the annual Drink and Draw at Heroes Con this summer. Danielle Corsetto, who was a big fan of Richard's, was in Asheville this weekend and drew this coaster (along with another of her characters) for fundraising for Parkinson's disease research.

Comic Culture at HeroesCon 2024, part 4 [Team Cul-De-Sac]

terence dollard

May 14, 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCxNqIT97uE

Part four of Comic Culture's annual pilgrimage to the largest comic-only convention, HeroesCon. Discover the charitable side of the convention, Team Cul-De-Sac, and more interviews from the show floor. Comic Culture is directed and crewed by students at the University of North Carolina at Pembroke. I'm posting the video as producer/host and not as an official University publication.

Jason Chatfield: "I consider Richard Thompson to maybe be one of the best cartoonists that ever lived."

Jason Chatfield did a live drawing talk on one of his Substacks today.

I asked him to draw Mr. Danders - he pulled out Richard's Poor Almanac (9:15), and said, "I keep this book at arm's reach from my drawing board at all times... I consider Richard Thompson to maybe be one of the best cartoonists that ever lived. Up there with Ronald Searle, Sergio Aragones, Steadman, Scarfe... these guys who have their very distinct styles... This book - on days when I don't feel like being creative or drawing - I just flip through it and snap myself out of my funk. If you haven't heard of Richard Thompson, I'm jealous that you get to discover his work for the first time. If you have, I implore you to go back to it."

And then he drew Mr. Danders from memory.

"I really, really adore Richard Thompson."

See the whole video at:

Jason Chatfield

DMA#1: Draw Me Anything!

Process Junkie! Apr 3, 2025
https://www.process-junkie.com/p/dma1-draw-me-anything

PS. I subscribe to Jason's other Substack, New York Cartoons @ https://www.newyorkcartoons.com/

Pete Docter shout-out to the world’s greatest unknown cartoonist

Oscar-Winning Pixar Animator Pete Docter On 30 Years of 'Toy Story,' the Future of AI in Animation and New Sequel (Exclusive)
Danielle Directo-Meston
March 24, 2025

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/shopping/toy-story-5-pete-docter-interview-future-of-pixar-animation-new-products-1236170265/

Lastly, what are those two pieces of art hanging on your wall behind you?

This is from the world's greatest unknown cartoonist, it's called "Cul de Sac" by Richard Thompson. And if you're not familiar with it, check it out. It's brilliant. The other one is Mary Blair, she was a brilliant animator at the Disney Studios, and this was from Saludos Amigos. I just love the character of those birds.

 (courtesy of Pete, here's the strip)

Richard's art from the January/February 1993 issue of Contingencies Magazine

Thanks to Joe Sutliff.