Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson
Craig Matthew Thompsonis a graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice, Blankets, Carnet de Voyageand Habibi. Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 September 1975
CountryUnited States of America
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They can get in at 9-2, 8-3, but we have to be 11-0. That's what we're trying to change.
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That's one of the fallacies at the end of the selection process, when you hear people say (the committee) didn't know. Believe me, there's nothing those people don't know. They know the first time you wear retro jerseys.
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We've had a lot of people comment that maybe our league deserves an automatic bid more than leagues that have automatic bids, without naming names.
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Couple that with our top programs, we feel we can make a great step forward, and a great statement about inclusion in a new BCS. We feel that we have really made a step toward being a BCS league.
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You get outside, let the kids ride all the rides, see all the different people.
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This is an interesting case study. There's 40,000 Colorado State alumni in the Denver area. Wyoming has several thousand alumni living in Denver. Air Force has a lot of fans in the area. But for whatever reason, it didn't translate to sales.
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Foreign-language books are sometimes more beautiful when you can't tell what's being said. It's like you ruin it by reading.
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It's the difference between having some presence and no presence in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, ... When our standings are in the paper every day there and Dallas-area talk shows say, 'TCU won against BYU in a Mountain West game today,' I'll take that as a glass half-full approach. Maybe what is a 10 to 12 percent (television) interest jumps to 15 or 18 percent right away and then CSTV explodes on the scene in 2006.
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It's an opportunity to play at times that our fans want us to play, when it's convenient for our fans.
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It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building up from nothing.
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This is a fan event. Obviously the fans would prefer to go to Las Vegas than come here and that's fine. We're excited about the future of the tournament in Las Vegas.
No question, (the BCS equation) was a determining factor,
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Additional exposure in the state of Texas is certainly welcomed.
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After 'Blankets,' I was sick of drawing myself and doing this autobiographical, mundane, Midwestern sort of comics. I wanted to create something bigger than myself and outside myself.