Richad Thompson is somewhere beyond acquaintance and just shy of friend at this point. We know each other when we bump into each other and can chat, but haven't really had an opportunity to share a meal or hang out specifically. I have bumped into him attending the
Baltimore Comic-Con,
Small Press Expo, and book signings at
Politics & Prose in Washington, DC with mutual friends. We had discussed him doing sketches in the past, but it just never materialized, so when I found him at the Baltimore Comic-Con in 2010 at the Kids Love Comics table between his reasonably steady stream of admirers (and after prompting by my other almost-friend ;-)
Shannon Gallant that Richard drew Galactus in a Poor Richard's Almanac strip that was hilarious), I asked him to do something for me. He asked if he could do something interpretive, and I told him he could certainly draw his characters as a Marvel character a la Andy Runton's Spider-Man Owly. He decided that, with the recent popularity of M.O.D.O.K., that would be a good direction, and drew his Cul-de-Sac strip character Alice as M.O.D.O.K. (or is that A.L.I.C.E.?). Hilarious, as is everything else he draws! Thanks Richard!
