Bill Watterson – Philip Nel

Comic-Con 2014: San Diego, July 26

July 27, 2014Philip NelBerkeley Breathed, Bill Watterson, Censorship, Comic-Con, Comics, Gene Luen Yang, Jeff Smith, Willie ItoBerkeley Breathed, Bill Watterson, Censorship, Comic-Con, Comics, Gene Luen Yang, Jeff Smith, Willie Ito

Hello, and welcome to today’sÂ tiny sliver of what Comic-Con is like. In each of my day’s reports, I’m giving you but one person’s glimpse into this vast enterprise, the attendance of which tends to be around 50,000 people. If you were here, your focus mightÂ be different than mine. Or if youÂ did attend this year’s Comic-Con,

The Genius of Cul de Sac

Richard Thompson’s Cul de Sac is one of two comic-strip masterpieces of this century.1 Fortunately for the busy comics-reader, you can now read the entire workÂ in The Complete Cul de Sac (2 volumes, just out from Andrews McMeel). Unfortunately for the medium (of comics! of Art!), the complete run of the Thompson’s daily strip is