Cul de Sac : This Exit

By Richard Thompson

This collection features a precocious four-year-old girl and her family and friends.
Alice is very sophisticated for her age, as shown in this cartoon where she lists all the ways Princess Fairyqueen is merchandised:

Despite her apparent sophistication, when she finds some loose change underneath a rack of trousers, she concludes that money comes from pants. And when he father tells her that he staked a small tree because young trees are dangerous, she believes him:

The author's drawings of humans are rather unappealing. But his drawings of animals in the cartoons are very cute and cuddly and really add a huge amount of charm to the series:

It's a very sweet and funny comic strip. I enjoyed reading this book very much. Highly recommended.