Cul de Sac!!
Dear Reader (er .. meaning all 3 or 4 of you, equally), Richard Thompson himself was gracious enough to pay this blog a visit last night. I assure you, this is a moment of celestial exaltation for my humble blog.
If you click on his name there in the comments, as I quickly did, you'll find that Richard Thompson indeed has a blog. And it's terrific, not surprisingly. But don't take my word for it!
Incidentally, that blog appears on the 2nd page of Google returns if you search "Richard Thompson" today. When I mentioned him here in September, though, having just searched for what material was out there (as I've done on several occasions over some years), there was no blog to find. His inaugural post is dated later that same month.
It would be unseemly, perhaps, for me to praise Thompson's work in a very impassioned way, here, especially since I'm not the book-&-print-collecting, convention-going comics & illustration fanatic that others out there who appreciate his stuff undoubtedly are. But I've long thought him a superb illustrator. I'm really grateful to have more access, now, to what he's doing.
P.S. See particularly the Beethoven's Birthday posts of last month — 1, 2. Hilarious!
If you click on his name there in the comments, as I quickly did, you'll find that Richard Thompson indeed has a blog. And it's terrific, not surprisingly. But don't take my word for it!
Incidentally, that blog appears on the 2nd page of Google returns if you search "Richard Thompson" today. When I mentioned him here in September, though, having just searched for what material was out there (as I've done on several occasions over some years), there was no blog to find. His inaugural post is dated later that same month.
It would be unseemly, perhaps, for me to praise Thompson's work in a very impassioned way, here, especially since I'm not the book-&-print-collecting, convention-going comics & illustration fanatic that others out there who appreciate his stuff undoubtedly are. But I've long thought him a superb illustrator. I'm really grateful to have more access, now, to what he's doing.
P.S. See particularly the Beethoven's Birthday posts of last month — 1, 2. Hilarious!
Labels: blogosphere, illustration-and-cartoon
posted by paul bowman at
12:00 PM
4 Comments:
Kewl beans! You are quite right to be tickled.
Started looking out for Thompson's stuff maybe 15 yrs ago — when I was most interested in pursuing illustration and began trying to pay attention to the field of current pros and the luminaries passing from the scene. But info on him seemed to be scarce. Maybe I never looked at the right magazines. Or maybe he was keeping too busy to bother maintaining a higher profile. (I guess I could just ask him about it now, huh?)
Hey Paul, thanks again for the kind words. Which I especially appreciate as they come from a non-convention-going-etc. (I'm not either though that may have to change). And you're in Baltimore, my old hometown. I've always believed DC to be secretly envious of Baltimore, as Charm City has all the character. DC got stuck with all the gravitas, and who wants that?
DC/Arlington/&c envious, wishing to have another, or a more definite, identity — that rings true for me, from my time living down there. Baltimore maybe, yes, in some ways.
I don't know how to comment, quite; maybe haven't lived away from this greater metro region enough to have a view of it that doesn't too much involve my own self-consciousness, and find observations tracing circles back on themselves.
I'll certainly grant, though, that Baltimore retains character, local flavor. And I'd say it seems easier in general, to me at least, to connect with the guy or lady on the street up here than it does down there.
Incidentally, I've never lived in the city, though I've been at school in Baltimore a few semesters. I grew up mostly in the wasteland of Glen Burnie, and as an adult have lived off & on at my parents' in Catonsville. While finishing college I lived near UMd in Greenbelt, and got into DC a fair amount at the time. Later was in Fairfax, and thought of NorthernVA & DC as a place where I might want to stay put. But the appeal wore thin, shortly. (Though I think it could be a lot of fun there if one had more time to work on one's Spanish than I did.) Since then, for the moment, I'm back in Catonsville. Maybe I will end up in Baltimore after all — haven't quite ruled it out.
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