Cul de Sac by Richard Thompson for January 02, 2010

I’m with you, Alice……

Does the collection come in a fancy slip case, like The Far Side, or, Calvin & Hobbes ???

Just give me volume 1. Anything more would be like having all those DVD extras that I never look at. Just wasted space on a disk - or bookshelf.

Man, that’s better than a bed time story! Go Petey!

“We’re all mad, aren’t we?” Hatter or March Hare…I see Lonewolf changed from 7 swans to 9 maids;-) and perhaps some cartoonists are a little more mad than the rest.

Well, with all the torn up, stepped on, rejected & shot up sketches in volume 2, It would make Volume 3 an interesting read!

I would have been interested in vol 2 except for the part “peppered with bird shot at close range” – that’s a bit over the top, don’t you think? Alice I hope you learn from Petey and never find a collection as bad as this!

And slowly Alice literally sinks into dreamland.

yes, methinks this is a comment on the success in marketing enjoyed by some of Mr. Thomson’s contemporaries

I think I’ll just buy vol. 3 and eliminate the middleman …

Synergy… check out the blog!

such a good brother reading Alice to sleep !

does the set come at a once in a lifetime special offer and if you buy in the next 36 seconds you get a complete second set for only shipping and handling ?

RE: volume 3 - Sometimes it’s good to read what thoughts are behind writings. I was referred to the “Annotated Alice” after commenting to some friends about SyFy’s MFTV movie, “Alice” which I liked as a fresh take on books I’ve read as a child, so I bought the latest edition and started reading it this week (whenever I can sit in the garden, because I prefer to read without glasses- in the bright sun). Like that volume, it tells more about how the writer’s (Dobson) life and times affected his children’s stories. I’ll give it a good review on Amazon when I’m done.

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

I would have hated to be the editorial assistant in charge of retrieving and compiling the sketches that had been flushed, but I still want this set!

I especially want to see the notorious strip no. 13,268, which showed Little Neuro getting out of bed for a glass of water. My local paper chose not to print that installment, out of deference to more sensitive readers. Alas, that was slated to appear on a Saturday, which meant that almost nobody noticed its absence.

It is not wise to EVER investigate the psychiatric profile of a professional cartoonist. There are thing lurking there that should never see the light of day OR the gloom of night!

jestrfyl You make it sound like entering the Twilight Zone.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

What about the cartoonist’s other strips, such as “Dreams of the Rabbit Fiend”, “Little Sammy Cough” or “Heavy Henrietta”?

Am I the only ignoramus that had to look up “unredacted?”