Craig Thompson Archives

One of the more prominent names in the Let's Play community who haven't abandoned YouTube yet is Craig Thompson, better known to his fans as Mini Ladd With a career that's been over a decade long and a healthy gaming career, Thompson has decided to embark on a brand new venutre: touring The Demonetized Tour[...]

If you missed Craig Thompson's £8 a ticket talk at the British Library in London, last night, with Paul Gravett, there's still a chance for something of that ilk tomorrow. Orbital Comics will see Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi, visit for a signing on Wednesday from 5-7pm, followed by a Director's Commentary with Craig talking the audience through his latest[...]

Tonight, the British Library in London sees an evening with comic book creator Craig Thompson, author of Blankets and Habibi, in conversation with Comica's Paul Gravett. As we;; as his previous work, they'll be talking about his new family drama colour graphic novel, Space Dumplins. In the tradition of plucky heroines like Alice, and their astonishing adventures, his new[...]

Jeff Smith's Bone has now been published for ten years in colour from Scholastic, who created their imprint Graphix especially to publish the book. Now in February, they will be publishing a ten year "tribute edition" of the first collection, Out Of Boneville which will contain an extra 48 pages including Bone-inspired comics and art from[...]

They're announcing it tomorrow. But Bleeding Cool has found the planned HTML in advance, and it all works, so you can make your orders now and get

As to the content of Blankets, there was widespread consensus on the beauty of Craig Thompson's work as well as his extraordinary ability to tell a story (to which many related) though such a limited use of text In the end, many students remarked that the non-superhero comics were their favorite readings of the semester. 5[...]

Blankets is Craig Thompson's masterful autobiographical story about coming of age, falling in love for the first time and finding your way in the world I was challenged to read this book after my first Essential 8 column and I was happy to take that challenge up I got my copy from Amazon in the[...]

In Habibi the new full-length graphic novel from Craig Thompson, story, language, and image come together in an exaltation of both the comic medium and the Arabic script. The story opens with the sale of Dodola as a bride to a scribe She's only a child Though not explicitly depicted, her "wedding night" is far from[...]

Expect to see work, and a prescence from Mike Mignola, Craig Thompson, Mike and Laura Allred, Paul Pope, Bernie Wrightson, Steve Niles, Greg Rucka, Jill Thompson, Skottie Young, Jim Mahfood, Mike Huddleston, Marc Andreyko, Fabio Moon, Andy Kuhn, Steve Purcell, Doug TenNapel, David Mack, Greg Ruth and more… all without publishers. There's a full liquor license,[...]