{"id":950,"date":"2012-08-17T12:38:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T16:38:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/?p=950"},"modified":"2023-08-07T10:02:23","modified_gmt":"2023-08-07T14:02:23","slug":"end-of-the-road-for-cul-de-sac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2012\/08\/17\/end-of-the-road-for-cul-de-sac\/","title":{"rendered":"End of the Road for Cul de Sac"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/alicesword.jpg?resize=132%2C208&#038;ssl=1\" style=\"float:left; padding: 0px 10px 0px 0px;\" alt=\"Alice and her sword\" title=\"Alice and her Sword\" border=\"0\" width=\"132\" height=\"208\" \/> Michael Cavna on the Washington <em>Post<\/em>&#8216;s Comic Riff&#8217;s blog breaks the news that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/comic-riffs\/post\/richard-thompson-ends-cul-de-sac-comic\/2012\/08\/17\/06a7fda6-e819-11e1-a3d2-2a05679928ef_blog.html\">Richard Thompson will be bringing Ruben Award-winning daily comic strip &#8220;Cul de Sac&#8221; to a close<\/a> on September 23rd of this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Richard Thompson, widely acclaimed among his peers as the best all-around comic-strip creator working today, won\u2019t still be wearing that crown in six weeks. That\u2019s because Thompson has decided to stop working as a comic-strip creator: He will end his beloved strip &#8220;Cul de Sac&#8221; on Sept. 23.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>My feelings run towards the selfish here, because I have found &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gocomics.com\/culdesac\/\">Cul de Sac<\/a>&#8221; to be a refreshing, humble, and brilliant strip, awash with visual and linguistic delights. But I can only thank Richard Thompson and wish him the best, and I hope to see his work appearing here and there, even if not in a daily strip.<\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t picked up the <a href=\"https:\/\/richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com\/p\/bookstore.html\">collections of his strip<\/a> or the <a href=\"https:\/\/publishing.andrewsmcmeel.com\/book\/team-cul-de-sac-chris-sparks\/\">tribute book<\/a> (with proceeds going towards Parkinson&#8217;s research), there&#8217;s no better place to grab them than through <a href=\"https:\/\/richardspooralmanac.blogspot.com\/p\/bookstore.html\">his own site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And, yes, Alice, your little plastic sword impressed quite a few of us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Cavna on the Washington Post&#8216;s Comic Riff&#8217;s blog breaks the news that Richard Thompson will be bringing Ruben Award-winning daily comic strip &#8220;Cul de Sac&#8221; to a close on September 23rd of this year: Richard Thompson, widely acclaimed among his peers as the best all-around comic-strip creator working today, won\u2019t still be wearing that &#8230; <a title=\"End of the Road for Cul de Sac\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/2012\/08\/17\/end-of-the-road-for-cul-de-sac\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about End of the Road for Cul de Sac\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87],"tags":[157,158],"class_list":["post-950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comics","tag-cul-de-sac","tag-richard-thompson"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pedXm-fk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=950"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6100,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/950\/revisions\/6100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chrisbaer.net\/mp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}