Please Go Read This WaPo Profile Of Richard Thompson

If the quality of the standard newspaper profile depends somehow on the impressiveness of the testimony-givers, please note that this long Washington Post profile of Richard Thompson includes commentary from Garry Trudeau, Art Spiegelman, Pat Oliphant and Bill Watterson. Watterson's insights are fairly compelling and to the point for someone that never, ever does that kind of thing. I don't know that there's a nicer man I've met in comics than Thompson, and his strip continues to be beautiful and put a smile on my face. There's a bunch of stuff in Michael Cavna's piece I didn't know about, including material about his parents and the exact process by which his Parkinson's was initially indicated.

He probably hates this, but people care enough about his talent that they almost fuss over Thompson; I know I do. I was worried earlier this week that no new Cul De Sac books appeared on the Amazon.com publishing horizon that I actually wrote Thompson about it. He assured me in the calm manner of the way-too-nice senior explaining the way things work to a clueless freshman that both book tracks for Cul De Sac from Andrews McMeel -- the standard books and the bigger books with commentary -- continue unimpeded, just with the next book coming out Spring 2012 rather than this year for Christmas. I can't wait.
 
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