Heroescon Team Cul de Sac Drink and Draw 2017

It is time to ask for art donations in advance of our Drink and Draw on June the 16th. 

If you would like to donate art, books or anything all ages appropriate please send them to:

Team Cul de Sac

C/O Chris Sparks
54 Herron Ave
Asheville NC 28806

All items need to be received by June 12th 2017. The sooner the items arrive the sooner we can promote your work. 

Please send an email to teamculdesac@gmail.com with a short bio and links to your work so we can promote YOU! If you have a scan of what you are donating, please send it too.

We will have some fun stuff to share really soon with the time and location of the Drink and Draw! See you at Heroescon!

If you are attending heroescon and want to drop off the art the day of the Drink and Draw, please send an image so we can promote you and your wonderful donation!

New donation page for Team Cul de Sac

A new donation page for Team Cul de Sac is at https://fundraise.michaeljfox.org/teamculdesac

It's been about six months since we lost Richard Thompson to Parkinson's disease.

Richard Thompson remembered in Montgomery College alumni magazine

Richard Thompson '78; Cartoonist Richard Thompson made us laugh.

Gail Rubin
Montgomery College's INSIGHTS Fall 2016, p. 44
online (December 6 2016) at http://mcblogs.montgomerycollege.edu/insights/2016/12/06/cartoonist-richard-thompson-made-us-laugh/

Art of RT for sale in Singapore

CT Lim found The Art of Richard Thompson in his local bookshop Kinokuniya, in Singapore, and kindly sent me this photo.

Rex Morgan, MD dedicated to Richard Thompson's memory today

See the strip by Terry Beatty at

http://comicskingdom.com/shared_comics/63e5dcec-5a43-43f1-be30-d0a18db4776e

Remembering Richard Thompson, by two of his friends

Between the Stacks - Remembering Richard Thompson, cartoonist and illustrator

By Susan Frohnsdorff and Gregory Frohnsdorff

Moultrie News October 5, 2016

http://www.moultrienews.com/20161005/161009896/between-the-stacks---remembering-richard-thompson-cartoonist-and-illustrator

Note that the presentation mentioned has been postponed to October 22 due to the hurricane.

Oct 22: Mount Pleasant Library talk moved to new date

Due to the possibility of a hurricane this weekend, Richard Thompson, Cartoonist and Illustrator - A Tribute has been moved to a later date.

Richard Thompson, creator of the comic strip Cul de Sac, passed away from complications of Parkinson's disease this summer. Learn more about this Reuben Award-winning artist through a screening of the 2014 documentary The Art of Richard Thompson and a presentation on Thompson's background and accomplishments by one of the late cartoonist's friends.

Mt. Pleasant Regional Library
1133 Mathis Ferry Road
Mt. Pleasant, SC 29464
843.849.6161 ~ http://www.ccpl.org

Richard Thompson remembered in Air & Space Magazine

We've been tipped that the "October/November 2016 Air & Space/Smithsonian Magazine is now out. "Sightings" on page 68-69 is a salute to Richard Thompson. Check your local newstands."

Chris Mautner on Cul de Sac

Comic Connections: Revisiting Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac.

By Chris Mautner

The Smart Set 09/22/2016

http://thesmartset.com/comic-connections/

Barney & Clyde's Richard Thompson tribute

Gene Weingarten and Dave Clarke did a tribute to their friend Richard Thompson in today's strip - http://www.gocomics.com/barneyandclyde/2016/09/04