Cul de Sac: Golden Treasury: A Keepsake Garland of Classics

By Richard Thompson

The Cul de Sac Golden Treasury is a hilarious and beautiful omnibus of cartoonist Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac comic strips, bringing together strips from the first collection, Cul de Sac, and the 2009 collection, Children at Play.

A lighthearted look at the suburban life of precocious preschooler Alice Otterloop, Cul de Sac is noted not only for its humor and intelligence, but also for Thompson's fun, imaginative watercolor artwork. Thompson's work has attracted the praise of highly acclaimed illustrators all over the world, including Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes) and Mo Willems (Sheep in the Big City, Knuffle Bunny).

The Cul de Sac Golden Treasury will be a valued addition to the libraries of Cul de Sac fans and a fantastic introduction for readers new to this warm, wonderful comic strip. 

• Language: English
• Publisher: Open Road Integrated Media
• Release date: Jul 6, 2010
• ISBN: 9781449400415

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Reviews for Cul de Sac

[burnit99 · Rating: 5 out of 5 stars]

This has quickly become one of my favorite strips, with a unique blend of family humor, charm and whimsy, youthful naivete and worldliness. It's a comic strip of contrasts that work perfectly. Four-year-old Alice is a benignly dominant wonderkind who is probably the only (occasionally) malevolent force in the strip, but most of the time she's a sheer charm. Petey, her older brother, is a paranoiac recluse, and the parents are wonderful in their combined recognition of their kids' quirks, and not being particularly concerned about them. I think they figure that their unconditional love will make everything turn out alright. And they may be right.