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Richard C. Thompson (born October 8, 1957) is an illustrator and cartoonist best known for his syndicated comic strip ''Cul de Sac'' and the illustrated poem "Make the Pie Higher". He was given the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year for 2010. ==''Cul de Sac''== Thompson did numerous humorous illustrations to accompany feature articles in ''The Washington Post''. His comic strip ''Cul de Sac'' focuses on a pre-school girl, Alice Otterloop, and her daily life at school and at home. It began as a Sunday feature in the ''Washington Post Magazine'' and was launched in more than 70 newspapers in the fall of 2007. It is distributed nationally as both a daily and Sunday by Universal Press Syndicate.〔(Comics Reporter: Interview with Richard Thompson, January 25, 2008. )〕 The first book collection of ''Cul de Sac'' strips, published in 2008 by Andrews McMeel, includes the pre-syndication ''Washington Post'' strips in color, as well as a foreword by Bill Watterson, who praised Thompson's work: :I thought the best newspaper comic strips were long gone, and I've never been happier to be wrong. Richard Thompson's ''Cul de Sac'' has it all--intelligence, gentle humor, a delightful way with words, and, most surprising of all, wonderful, wonderful drawings. ''Cul de Sacs whimsical take on the world and playful sense of language somehow gets funnier the more times you read it. Four-year-old Alice and her Blisshaven Preschool classmates will ring true to any parent. Doing projects in a cloud of glue and glitter, the little kids manage to reinterpret an otherwise incomprehensible world via their meandering, nonstop chatter. But I think my favorite character is Alice's older brother, Petey. A haunted, controlling milquetoast, he's surely one of the most neurotic kids to appear in comics. These children and their struggles are presented affectionately, and one of the things I like best about ''Cul de Sac'' is its natural warmth. ''Cul de Sac'' avoids both mawkishness and cynicism and instead finds genuine charm in its loopy appreciation of small events. Very few strips can hit this subtle note. In 2009, Andrews McMeel published a second ''Cul de Sac'' collection, ''Children at Play'', featuring a foreword by Mo Willems. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Thompson (cartoonist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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