Thompson was the inspiration for the character of Duke in the [[Pulitzer Prize]]-winning comic strip ''[[Doonesbury]]'', and was portrayed by [[Johnny Depp]] in a film version of ''[[Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas]]''.
Some have As expressed in the belief that Thompson attracted attention conclusion to "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas", Thompson's post-modern cynicism and writings heralded for many the drug culture because he was conclusion of the Hippie subculture and, as a person what many people wanted to be he described, the "mind-- a rebelexpansion" phase of drug use, such as LSD and other hallucinatory narcotics.
Thompson, a lifelong gun enthusiast, committed [[suicide]] by by a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 2005.
