Richard Thompson - "Why Things Are" Book - Winking Fish
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Richard Thompson – “Why Things Are” Book

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Book Cover Design, Layout, Publications
About This Project

Just before the Internet became the force it is today there was a Washington Post column entitled “Why Things Are” to which readers could pose everything from child-like queries to stoner hypotheticals in the hope of receiving answers to life’s arcane conundrums. That weekly column ran in the newspaper from 1990 to 1996, and it was adorned with smart, silly cartoons by then staff artist extraordinaire Richard Thompson.

 

LOST ART BOOKS assembled a (near) complete collection of Thompson’s genius illustrations and cartoons for “Why Things Are,” the first regular humor series in Thompson’s career. Winking Fish completed the layout for the full 300-page book, assembling the chronology of work and creating relative placements of questions and cartoons. Winking Fish also designed the covers, using one of the artist’s illustrations (and his own signature) to bring the book title to life, and creating a clean back cover, also focusing on the artist and his many achievements.