Set in a timeless middle east, Habibi follows young Arab girl Dodola, sold into child marriage at 9. She is taught to read and write by her kind hearted husband, and her knowledge of letters and ...
I didn’t make it out to Craig Thompson’s reading at Seattle Public Library last night—truth be told, I didn’t even remember the reading was last night until a young, very-in-love couple walked by the ...
Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. The fuzzy gray border between language and image is no more apparent than in comics. From sound effect to the logotecture of Will Eisner's splash pages for The ...
For me, drawing is never divorced from the act of writing – my school notebooks were always filled with doodles in the margins. Here are my first research notes on the 3x3 magic square – a pre-Islamic ...
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You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. It’s a mark of Craig Thompson’s obsessive attention to detail that Habibi, his long-gestating follow-up to ...
In the imagined graphic world of superheroes, mutants and immortals, the meaning of existence is measured in their valiant, wild and lovely will to glory. The exploits by these Üermenschen are limited ...
In 2003, a previously obscure comics artist, Craig Thompson, published a graphic memoir called Blankets, in which he told the story of his evangelical Christian childhood, his conflicting feelings ...