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
shame share easier
Shame is always easier to handle if you have someone to share it with.
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.
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".
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.
stories
You're more than a story.
sea boundless
I love the sea because it is boundless.
mistake
Even a mistake is better than nothing.
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.
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.
lips grazing connecting
Her lips tarried at mine. Baiting each other with the warmth of our breath, barely grazing, detouring, then connecting.
grateful cereal infatuation
I was grateful for cereal --- the only food that my tummy, riddled by pangs of infatuation, could handle.
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.
agreement force
We can't force them. It's just a good-faith agreement.
kids ride
You get outside, let the kids ride all the rides, see all the different people.