Richard Thompson Takes Time Off To Treat Parkinson’s Disease

The award-winning cartoonist Richard Thompson has taken a few weeks off from his Cul De Sac to pursue opportunities in physical therapy for his Parkinson's, he announced yesterday. Thompson announced he had the disease in 2009, and has since become an open, courageous advocate for living with Parkinson's. A benefit book featuring other artists doing Thompson's characters will appear this year. Thompson dropped the vast majority of work that's not Cul De Sac in order to focus his energies on the strip, so this should be a solid period of time off so that he may focus on the rehabilitation. Since the hiatus began yesterday, even with Thompson's famously close-to-publication date schedule he has to be at least somewhere along this latest course if not outright finished.

If you're a fan, I imagine Thompson would be happy to hear from you in the comments section of that post. I'm a fan of the strip and the man, and wish him all the best with this course of treatment.
 
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