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
boat carry
We've never done this before, ... We don't know if it will work. We may carry your ass all the way over to the boat and not be able to do this thing.
corners follow four mountain reach sports west
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 ride
You get outside, let the kids ride all the rides, see all the different people.
agreement force
We can't force them. It's just a good-faith agreement.
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.