By Chris Sparks (ed.)
The paintings of Richard Thompson
Known for being the writer of the sketch Cul de Sac, Richard Thompsons paintings prowess extends to many different degrees.
Richard Thompson is popular between cartoonists as an «artists» cartoonist. Little identified to all yet these as regards to him is the level of his paintings expertise.
This is the publication that may enlighten the remainder of us and pleasure us with the sheer great thing about his work.
Divided into six sections, every one starting with an introductory dialog among Thompson and 6 recognized friends, together with invoice Watterson, the publication will current Thompsons representation paintings, caricatures, and his production, Richards bad Almanack.
Each part is extremely illustrated, many works in colour, so much of them huge and published one-to-a-page. the range of labor may also help forged a much wider web, way past Cul de Sac fanatics.
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How did it get that far? RT: I don’t know, probably just because I’d taken the attitude that a daily like Cul de Sac is hard . . it was getting harder, and I was getting behind. And I wasn’t really sure. NG: Did you think you were tired, or did you think something was wrong? RT: Both. I went to one of those urgent care places, got a checkup with, like, an EKG and everything, and they didn’t see anything, but that’s obviously not the kind of doctor you should see, to get a real diagnosis, which he admitted.
Richard created dozens of self-portraits over his career. Here he has fun with the answer to one of a cartoonist’s most relentlessly asked questions. Richard filled his sketchbooks with elephants and alphabets and often started a new sketchbook with a sole image of the former. This page of ink drawings is from a 1989 sketchbook. Richard Thompson and Chris Sparks formed the charity Team Cul de Sac in 2010. So far TCDS has raised more than $125,000 for Parkinson’s disease research through a book and art auctions.
That brief moment passed and Richard struggled to adapt to his Parkinson’s as it slowly robbed him of control over his drawing hand. “I wrote letters to clients regarding alternatives. ” In 2012, Richard announced that he was ending Cul de Sac because he could no longer maintain the level of quality he wanted. “When I quit, I was thinking about what I wanted to be doing a month from then on the strip, the places I wanted to take it and couldn’t. ” Richard could have continued Cul de Sac by subcontracting all his responsibilities the way other comic strip creators have done.