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| The Art of Richard Thompson on Vimeo |
Thompson, who lived in Arlington, died of complications from Parkinson’s disease, the effects of which he had endured for eight years.
Thompson was perhaps best known for his Reuben Award-winning comic strip “Cul de Sac,” which was born in 2004 as a weekly feature in the pages of The Washington Post Magazine, before being syndicated several years later by Universal Press Syndicate/Universal Uclick, which distributed the feature to hundreds of newspapers at its peak.
This blog has posted countless articles about Richard Thompson. Here are a few highlights:
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| An Interview with Richard Thompson |
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"Tributes to Richard Thompson" in The Comics Journal.
"Richard Thompson & Jack Davis" in Perpetua.
"These are the Richard Thompson masterpieces we’ll most remember him by" in Comic Riffs."Tributes to Richard Thompson" in The Comics Journal.
"Richard Thompson & Jack Davis" in Perpetua.
Lee Salem's favourite cartoon:
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Could you suggest where a friend of mine from Namibia who has been a Richard Thompson fan for a couple of years, visiting Montreal for a wedding this week, might be lucky enough to find him in a bookstore in that city? Any ideas about where she might look would be appreciated.
ReplyDeleteI contacted a good comics bookstore in Montreal and the manager told me that, because of Richard Thompson's death, there has been a surge in orders for "Cul de sac" and the US distributor can't meet the demand.
DeleteAh yeah, that should have occurred to me. Many thanks for looking into it. (Hardly a better way to honor Thompson’s memory than by a kindness to a stranger, it’s worth saying. He must be smiling somewhere right now.)
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