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
aspect both faith grew life parents spend
I grew up in a very fundamentalist, evangelical Christian household. Both my parents were born-again - their faith infused every aspect of my childhood. I'll probably spend most of my life working through that.
applying christians life seems word
I think you can still look to Jesus' word for guidance in your life. It's just not the guidance that it seems like most Christians are applying to their own lives.
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".
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.