{"product_id":"cul-de-sac-this-exit-volume-1","title":"Cul De Sac: This Exit (Volume 1)","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, 2008\n\n\"One of the five best features in any newspaper, period.\" --The Comics Reporter\n\n\"One of the few strips around where nearly every individual panel is stand-alone delight.\" --The Onion\n\n\"...it really seems like the inheritor of 'Calvin and Hobbes.'\" --Art Spiegelman\n\n\"I can't say enough in his favor, so much is my admiration for his work.\" --Pat Oliphant\n\nMore 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.\n\nInstructed 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.\n\nThis 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.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: 0740776517\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: LFV.0740776517.VG\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Very Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Thompson, Richard\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Book is in very good condition.  Clean with little to no signs of wear or markings highlights.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Books for Life","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46977285324997,"sku":"LFV.0740776517.VG","price":18.8,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0650\/2914\/4773\/files\/0740776517-0.jpg?v=1789924066","url":"https:\/\/www.booksforlife.store\/products\/cul-de-sac-this-exit-volume-1","provider":"Books for Life","version":"1.0","type":"link"}