| blankets notebook | May 21st, 2007 |
Continual thanks to everyone responding to this blog. My apologies for being lazy with anything correspondence or ‘puter related. Soon I’ll try answering some of your questions… In the meantime, the blog seems like a decent forum for being transparent with the process of comics-making. I still feel secretive with HABIBI, but we’ve three other books to show-n-tell with — Here’s some doodlings from my notebook/sketchbook when I began writing BLANKETS. Kenneth Koch, Marcel Proust, Gnostic Gospels, Ballpoint Pen, 1999!
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May 21st, 2007 at 9:04 am
Man, those hallucinations about zombies ROCK.
May 21st, 2007 at 9:54 am
hello craig thompon,
i am from holland, went to art school in boston for a year and now i go back to maybe go study art in belgium. i read blankets a year ago and really enjoyed it it reminded me a lot of baudoin’s piero, because you both use the falling in heaven as a metaphore for growing up. the thing is that piero was one of the few comics i had read before, and with yours its one of the few that i like. thank you very much.
jelte
May 21st, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Hi Craig,
I started reading comics late in life because I went to film school, and wanted to see a visual media that had an interesting way to tell stories with pictures.
I wasn’t that into it, but then I saw Goodbye, Chunky Rice, and it was amazing. I am from Mexico and was studying in NYC, having left all my friends behind, and Chunky Rice really hit me.
You are an incredible story teller and artist, thank you for your art…
LEO
May 21st, 2007 at 5:13 pm
here is a drawing i did of craig and raina.
“Frozen Still Life”
May 21st, 2007 at 6:26 pm
It’s really cool to see those and to kind of see your process.
May 21st, 2007 at 11:00 pm
craig these are fantastic, keep up the good work and don’t stress too much over the new book (absurd in its impossibility, i know, but worth saying). we all love what you’re doing.
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:03 am
Hey there,
I’m a big fan of yours and also Menomena - as soon as I saw their album cover, I knew you drew it. Thank you for you and your art - you inspire me (and my meager doodlings) I love your art and I can’t wait to see more.
indie.mom
@ speed of dark music blog
May 22nd, 2007 at 2:19 am
Is this how it starts? Just sketching and writing subjects and people to weave into the story later? Or do you have an outline already thought out first?
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:34 am
Craig,
I am reading Blankets right now, but I’ve already skimmed ahead and browsed the ending. First of all I have to say thank you for such a honest and heartfelt story. I fear I relate far too much to your experiences growing up.
That said I have some questions:
What ever happened to Raina?
Do you still ever communicate?
What were your parents reactions to the book?
Has there been any other feedback from any people you depict in your stories?
How would you feel about being interviewed for a podcast?
I look forward to finding out the answers.
If you are available for a podcast interview, please email me at admroth@iupui.edu
May 22nd, 2007 at 8:55 am
Craig -
do keep on publishing these notes. they shed a great light on Blankets (which I just finished for I think the 7th time).
peace
w/
May 22nd, 2007 at 12:52 pm
Thank you for sharing these.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:04 pm
Hey Craig,
Its Andy Wong from Newberg. Haven’t seen you in a while. I think the last time was at the Alison Bechdel reading at Powells Burnside. I missed you at the Kurt Halsey Frederickson show at the Missing Link. Anyways I hope this message finds you in good spirits and good health. Keep a Positive Mental Attitude. Vizualize your goals. Life has a funny way of working things out but things always work out for the best. Hope to see you soon and I’m excited for your new book and the things you will share with us in your blog.
Rock N Roll
Andy
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:10 pm
Oh and for everyone else,
Here is a painting I got from Craig that was done at a live performance during a Tracker / Menomena show in Portland. Its big and its hanging on my wall now.
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:11 pm
here’s the link since i dont think pics can be posted
http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v316/Twocool4u1/comics/?action=view¤t=121_2128_r1.jpg
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:52 pm
Craig, thank you so much for this blog!
It’s grueling waiting for a book without hearing nothing. Keep on posting!
May 22nd, 2007 at 7:54 pm
Craig,
Great post! I love seeing your creatice process. Simply amazing and beautiful. What kind of notebook is that. It looks like an unruled spiral and I would love to get my hands on one for my travel sketching. Thanks for all the inspiration.
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
I don’t think in any language. I think in images. I don’t believe that people think in languages. They don’t move their lips when they think. It is only a certain type of illiterate person who moves his lips as he reads or ruminates. No, I think in images.
I don’t think Nabokov was talking about cartooning when he said this, but it seems relevant anyway. I hope you’re well, and keep up the good work.
May 23rd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
I got Blankets for my 29th birthday…by someone who is too special for me…she is special. I read it many times, and i can always see my entire life passing through the pages…i loved this book.
Tnx Craig
May 25th, 2007 at 7:50 am
Thanks so much for posting! this helps a lot with my own process. I’ve got essentially a 14 page poem/prose piece storyboarded out, but I’m stumped in a lot of ways. I keep feeling like…
“ok on this page its going to have this feeling and i want these lines to echo these”
but then i don’t know how to get the specific images set. Seeing your notebooks reminds me to relax and just let the story flow out of me first, and THEN get down to framing and such.
Now back to the drawing board!
May 28th, 2007 at 12:19 am
Hey Craigers,
Nice mustachio! I stumbled upon this blog of yours today …while waiting for my fiancé to free up the shower.
I’m back in Norway, and the weather is very Oregon-like.
Oop! The shower is now free!
Surfs up,
Big Tex
May 29th, 2007 at 10:47 am
Wow, reading through your notes, I can see where and how pieces of your story came together. It’s a real treat, like divulging secrets.
May 30th, 2007 at 4:04 am
Craig,
I have a radio show about comics, that kind of makes a soundtrack for each comic; while I reveal a part of the story.
In Blankets some of the chapter are named after song of Tom Waits an The Cure, is it a coincidence, I never heard anyone talking about that, I need to know, to put together a nice soundrack for blankets
July 23rd, 2007 at 9:01 am
Craig,
Thank you so much for sharing these notes. Blankets is one of the most amazing works of art I have ever experienced. Every time I read it, I feel as though I am “tapping” into my own memories and it is such an unbelievably wonderful adventure. Okay, enough ego-stroking..for now. Keep up the good work on Habibi, I can’t wait to read it!