In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package. Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, two Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. His graphic novel Blankets won numerous industry awards and has been published in nearly twenty languages. Craig Thompson is the author of Habibi, Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, and Good-bye. Septemin Traverse City, Michigan) is a graphic novelist best known for his 2003 work Blankets. He was born in Michigan in 1975, and grew up in a rural farming community in central Wisconsin. Harvard Book Store is thrilled to host Harvey and Eisner Awardwinning graphic novelist CRAIG THOMPSON for a discussion of his newest work, Habibi. Part memoir, part travelogue, part essay-all comic book- Ginseng Roots explores class divide, agriculture, holistic healing, the 300 year long trade relationship between China and North America, childhood labor, and the bond between two brothers.Ĭraig Thompson is a cartoonist and the author of the award-winning books Blankets Good-bye, Chunky Rice and Habibi. Now, for the first time in his career, Thompson is working in serial form, in a bimonthly comic book series. Comics in turn, allowed him to escape his rural, working class trappings. Weeding and harvesting ginseng-an exotic medicinal herb that fetched huge profits in China-funded Craig’s youthful obsession with comic books. Thompson was born in Michigan in 1975, and grew up in a rural farming community in central Wisconsin.
From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (the author of Blankets) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms. Craig Thompson is a cartoonist and the author of the award-winning books Blankets, Carnet de Voyage, Good-bye Chunky Rice, and Habibi.
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