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When I woke this morning to snowfall in Portland - fat, fluffy flakes in the midst of our flowery spring - it seemed the right time to update the blog. Your outpouring of support concerning HABIBI process/progress has certainly buoyed my spirits. aww shucks Thank you! Recently excavated from the studio closet is a box full of BLANKETS roughs and production materials — including over
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March 28th, 2008 at 10:17 am
Je, that´s a nightmare!
March 28th, 2008 at 10:20 am
I love these roughs. They really inspire me to put more effort into the writing stage of my own comic work. Thanks, Craig.
March 28th, 2008 at 1:57 pm
You gotta love that Jumpin’ Jesus.
Thanks for sharing this stuff!
March 28th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Hey Craig… its really great to see your sketches there a real inspiration
March 28th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Woa! What a treasure. I wish I could see more of these in detail, that’s the best way to get the whole picture of the creative work.
March 28th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I agree with Isaac, that Jumpin’ Jesus is truly amazing!
And OF COURSE we are very interested in HABIBI.
March 29th, 2008 at 6:00 am
Lovely! Um.. (setting eyes on the pile of sketch pages) ..do you plan to have a sketchbook published, one day?
March 30th, 2008 at 8:33 pm
Beautiful, man. I recently found my sister’s copy of Blankets lying around the house, so I put it in the bookshelf along with a lot of old books inherited from my grandma, nearly or over 100 yrs old each. Hopefully that copy will survive as long as the others
April 1st, 2008 at 3:13 am
can I have the sketch of the naked girl? Jumpin’ Jesus rules
April 1st, 2008 at 4:59 am
Whoa, yeah, we had snow in March here too - really rare for a country that doesn’t even let you build a snowman all winter.
Just checked in here, love your new work. Keep up the blog, it helps me and everyone else go through with tedious crappy jobs etc because of the inspiration it provides, etc.:)
April 1st, 2008 at 6:28 am
Amazing to see those comics in that state.
April 1st, 2008 at 12:03 pm
Did you really say that when you were a child - that you wanted to draw cartoons? Fascinating. I’m over 50 and I still don’t know what I want to do when I grow up.
Thanks for sharing these glimpses of your work - and yourself.
April 1st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
When I see the sketch of the naked girl, I just want you to sketch me!!!
And I also wanted to draw cartoons as a child…and I’m doing a web designing degree. I’m almost there!
April 1st, 2008 at 4:44 pm
Hey Craig, is it true you’ll be at the Stripdagen in Haarlem in the Netherlands? I remember meeting you there 4 years ago, and your name just popped up on the list of people present there this year as well. It would be awesome to see you again and get my dutch Carnet de Voyage hardcover signed and sketched…
April 2nd, 2008 at 9:56 am
Graig ,it´s fantastic your work, your sketches are incredibles!
You are my inspiration and one of my favourites drawer at all!
Thanks for doing that fantastics thinks,
April 2nd, 2008 at 2:45 pm
great work on Habibi!!!
Can’t wait to read it… and since all nice things in life are worth the wait… I guess I will wait!
Keep it up!
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:12 pm
You really need to put a way to subscribe to your blog on here, like an rss feed or something. I’d love to keep up more with this, but I’m terribly forgetful…
Like Bone was the rejuvenation to read comics again for you… Blankets is what did it for me, also in keeping up the drawing of my younger days.
I love these drawings. Process humanizes the impossible works we come to idealize. But in such a strange way, that it doesn’t lose value, but instead, gains it by adding muscle to the flesh and blood of your work. Thank you for being willing to share.
April 4th, 2008 at 7:22 am
In the sketch of what has being called “the naked girl”. There seems to be certain properties of physics that have been overlooked in certain portions of the drawing… Is this to give the image a more idealized look–as if from memory?
April 4th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
I’d kill to have one of those pages, or any of your artwork. You are so amazing.
April 5th, 2008 at 7:22 am
I agree with Ty, I´d kill to have those pages. Sell me one please!!!.
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April 5th, 2008 at 10:57 am
I’m always wondering how you can represent in such great ways the world around you! Your visual language is pure poetry in everything you can do! Thanks for sharing!
teo
April 5th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Hello
I just finished reading blankets, it is a pure wonder!
I am in a hurry to read the rest of your work
Erwan from Paris
April 5th, 2008 at 3:42 pm
I just wanted to let you know I could wait until I was 64 to read HABIBI.
April 6th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Marry me?
April 7th, 2008 at 3:51 am
waa, these made my day!
April 7th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Jumping Jesus cracks me up (in a poetic way).
April 8th, 2008 at 7:35 am
I discovered your work back around Christmas when an old friend sent me “Carnet de Voyage.” I liked your casual brush style, so I bought “Blankets” and read it. I really like your work, and now I’m trying to incubate a graphic novel idea myself as an exit strategy from the declining newspaper industry. No snow down here in Huntington Beach. You should come down for a surf sesh some time.
April 11th, 2008 at 11:57 am
Craig, if supportive comments kept your spirits up so you could keep creating, I’d leave a glowing comment every day. Like this:
I’ve recommended your work to everyone because I found it so beautiful on every level — in the visuals, the writing, and the emotions evoked. It makes me happy to know someone like you exists and works so hard to share your talent and thoughts with others. The stories you have shared are incredibly validating to others who have also gone through the kinds of joys and sorrows you depict so gracefully - with insight, humour, and compassion. After I read Blankets I was in a bit of a dream-like daze myself for two days, back in my own coming-of-age and first-love time.
We are currently culling our books and I’ve had to get rid of so many, in order to fit well into our new home. In the midst of this, however, I ordered copies of your books so I could have them forever. They’re more than worth their price (and the space), and I know I will take pleasure in re-reading them. I will wait patiently to buy copies of Habibi for myself and others and hope you don’t have to take up too much other work to pay for the time you’re putting into it.
April 14th, 2008 at 12:19 pm
Hello Mr. Thompson.
ALL of your work has spoken to me in more ways than one, and your skill and technique is a boundless source of inspiration to me and many people I share your work with.
Particularly “Blankets” which I first read when I was around sixteen or so, and it has affected me profoundly and has left such an impression on me that I was never really the same after finishing it.
Your work is GORGEOUS, GENUINE and so moving, especially in how you render emotion into your drawings.
I am looking so forward to HABIBI in many ways, especially since I too have an interest in Islam and Islamic imagery.
You’re a legend where I’m from. No matter how hard the days get, or how life seems to pass you by, I hope you know how much of an effect your work has had on so many people.