num_pages: 128
description: I hope you enjoy Cul de Sac as much as I do. I think you're in for a real treat. --Bill Watterson creator of Calvin and Hobbes 2008One of the five best features in any newspaper period. --The Comics ReporterOne of the few strips around where nearly every individual panel is stand-alone delight. --The Onion ...it really seems like the inheritor of 'Calvin and Hobbes.' --Art SpiegelmanI can't say enough in his favor so much is my admiration for his work. --Pat OliphantMore than half of our nation's population resides in the 'burbs. Knowingly Richard Thompson's Cul de Sac follows the antics of four-year-old Alice Otterloop as she navigates her way through life at Blisshaven Preschool the scene of [her] daily toil. Suburbanites across the nation will easily recognize the quirks and conundrums associated with house-lined streets sidewalk canvases and magnetified refrigerator art.Instructed by the proper Miss Bliss Alice regularly has issues with taking a nap speaking out of turn and remembering what a triangle looks like. Helping her through life's ups and downs are her eight-year-old brother Petey Dad (a.k.a. Peter) and Mom (a.k.a. Madeline) as well as Mr. Danders the preschool's pompously pedantic guinea pig.This is the strip's first book collection incorporating more than a year's worth of strips dating back to the cartoon's 2007 debut. Thompson has received critical praise for doing a masterful job of commenting on social issues while entertaining in a freshly amusing and unexpected way.
language: English
title: Cul de Sac: This Exit
publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing