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Richard Thompson (cartoonist)
Richard Church Thompson (October 8, 1957 – July 27, 2016) was an American illustrator and cartoonist best known for his syndicated comic strip ''Cul de Sac'' and the illustrated poem " Make the Pie Higher". He was given the Reuben Award for Outstanding Cartoonist of the Year for 2010. ''Cul de Sac'' In 1982 Thompson began working at the ''Washington Post'', and he was the newspaper's unofficial staff artist by 1985. Thompson provided illustrations for Joel Achenbach's ''Washington Post'' column and Gene Weingarten's column in ''The Washington Post Magazine''. The weekly, watercolored incarnation of his comic ''Cul de Sac'' launched in ''The Washington Post Magazine'' on February 14, 2004. The strip focuses on a four-year-old girl, Alice Otterloop, and her daily life at preschool and at home. It was published in more than 70 newspapers by the fall of 2007. It was distributed nationally as both a daily and Sunday strip by Universal Press Syndicate. The first book collection ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Baltimore
Baltimore ( , locally: or ) is the List of municipalities in Maryland, most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic, and List of United States cities by population, the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585,708 in 2020. Baltimore was designated an Independent city (United States), independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States. As of 2021, the population of the Baltimore metropolitan area was estimated to be 2,838,327, making it the List of metropolitan areas of the United States, 20th largest metropolitan area in the country. Baltimore is located about north northeast of Washington, D.C., making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area, Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest combined statistical area, CSA in the nat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
