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Feature Details
Feature Type:
Comic strip
Frequency:
7x week
Daily and Sunday
Target Audience:
Wide appeal
Delivery Methods:
BBS, FTP, e-mail, Online
Languages:
English
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Comic Strips:
- Adam @ Home
- Baldo
- Cathy
- Calvin & Hobbes
(outside North America only) - Cleats
- Condorito (Spanish only)
- La Cucaracha
- Cul de Sac
- Doonesbury
- The Duplex
- The Elderberries
- For Better Or For Worse
- FoxTrot
- Fred Bassett
- The Fusco Brothers
- Garfield
- Gaturro (Spanish only)
- Ginger Meggs
- Heart of the City
- Ink Pen
- James Bond
- Judge Dredd
- Lio
- Mutt & Jeff
- Non Sequitur
- Overboard
- Pepe
- Pooch Cafe
- Ronaldinho Gaucho
- Stone Soup
- Tank McNamara
- Tom the Dancing Bug
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UPS Features
Cul de Sac
"One of the few strips around where nearly every individual panel is stand-alone delight." — The Onion
"One of the five best features in any newspaper, period." — The Comics Reporter
Richard Thompson's "Cul de Sac," is a comic strip about the life of a pre-school girl named Alice Otterloop. It is a light-hearted comic strip centered around a four-year old girl and her suburban life experiences on a cul-de-sac. with her friends Beni and Dill, older brother Petey and her classmates at Blisshaven Academy pre-school. Alice describes her father's car as a "Honda-Tonka Cuisinart" and talks to the class guinea pig, Mr. Danders. She has the typical older brother who plays jokes on her, and she contemplates ways to keep the scary clown from jumping out of the jack-in-the-box with friends.
From Bill Watterson, creator of "Calvin and Hobbes":
"I became a big fan of Richard Thompson when I saw his book, Richard’s Poor Almanac. Thompson has a sharp eye, a fun sense of language and a charmingly odd take on the world. Best of all, his drawings are wonderful—something one doesn’t often see in cartoons anymore. I'm delighted to see 'Cul de Sac', and I have high hopes that Thompson will bring a much-needed jolt of energy to the daily newspaper. We have a real talent here."
Richard Thompson has been drawing "Cul de Sac" for the Washington Post for nearly three years. He also does the comic strip, "Richard's Poor Almanac" for the Washington Post, which he been creating for the past 10 years. Thompson's work can be seen in galleries and in several illustrated works.
"Since we came up with 'Cul de Sac' for our magazine three years ago, it's become one of our more popular features. A December 2006 web survey (randomized, but not fully scientific) indicated that 43.2 percent of our readers read 'Cul de Sac' all/almost all the time, which placed it in the top third of our recurring features. We also have anecdotal evidence that the readers who follow 'Cul de Sac' feel very attached to it — based on many impassioned letters, both to the editors, and to Richard.," explains Tom Shroder, editor, The Washington Post Magazine.
Cul de Sac book from Andrews McMeel Publishing, LLC:
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