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
stars lying fall
At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.
shame share easier
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
school church awful
Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.
matter movement maps
How satisfying it is to leave a mark on a blank surface. To make a map of my movement - no matter how temporary.
temptation lust
Which is scarier-- lust or temptation?
utah games answers
The question is not, could Utah compete week in and week out in the ACC, SEC, Big Ten, whatever, .. The question is, in a one- game setting, can Utah compete, can Utah get the market share, sell the tickets of one of those more familiar institutions. Nobody knows that answer.
song confused spring
Right now the day length is exactly the same as in spring when birds key into it and begin singing. The birds are a little confused by it all and the singing isn't very intense. It only lasts a week or so each fall, but it's still cool to hear spring bird songs at this time of the year.
what-matters soul world
For what matters if I gain the whole world, but lose my soul?
fun cowboy thinking
Edward Said talks about Orientalism in very negative terms because it reflects the prejudices of the west towards the exotic east. But I was also having fun thinking of Orientalism as a genre like Cowboys and Indians is a genre – they’re not an accurate representation of the American west, they’re like a fairy tale genre.
wanting-someone wanting-you im-sad
Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.
soul layers twenties
You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone's so shocked or impressed that you're baring your soul, while to you it's nothing, because you know you've twenty more layers to go.
air alumni case colorado denver fans force living several state thousand translate whatever
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.
bigger outside sort
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.
No question, (the BCS equation) was a determining factor,