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Habibi craig thomson6/21/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() He and his brother and sister grew up in rural Wisconsin. Thompson and his brother were particularly enamored of black and white independent comics in the 1980s, such as the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and the do-it-yourself ethic that they embodied. ![]() Thompson’s only access to the arts were the Sunday funnies and comics, since they were assumed to be for children, to which Thompson attributes his early affinity for the medium. ![]() Media such as films and televisions shows were screened or altogether censored by their parents, and the only music allowed was Christian music. His father was a plumber, and his mother alternated between working as a stay-at-home mom and a visiting-nurse assistant for the disabled. He, his younger brother Phil and his sister grew up in rural Marathon, Wisconsin, in a fundamentalist Christian family. Craig Thompson was born in Traverse City, Michigan in 1975. His other award-winning works include Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), and Carnet de Voyage (2004). A Michigan-born graphic novelist, he is best known for his 2011 Islamic fairytale, Habibi. ![]()
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