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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It took me months to figure out how to get approved for weight loss surgery. Most people don't realize that obesity alone won't qualify you for the procedure. Insurance companies have written guidelines that they use to determine whether or not a specific medical procedure is appropriate, and it's not easy to put together a request that will pass your carrier's review process.
trying
They can get in at 9-2, 8-3, but we have to be 11-0. That's what we're trying to change.
carving easier fit
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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We're going to reach all four corners of the country. We're going to be able to follow Mountain West sports the way no one else has been able to follow Mountain West sports before.
kids library firsts
On my first visit to the public library, I was like a kid at a candy store where all the candy was free. I gorged myself until my tummy ached.
grateful cereal infatuation
I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
lips grazing connecting
Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
dream reality giving
Sometimes, upon waking, the residual dream can be more appealing that reality, and one is reluctant to give it up. For a while, you feel like a ghost -- Not fully materialized, and unable to manipulate your surroundings. Or else, it is the dream that haunts you. You wait with the promise of the next dream.
real home space
and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.
mistake
Even a mistake is better than nothing.
sea boundless
I love the sea because it is boundless.
stories
You're more than a story.
heaven world misery
I wanted a heaven. And I grew up striving for that world-- an eternal world- that would wash away my temporary misery.
lonely fall space
Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".