6/4/2023 0 Comments Habibi by Craig Thompson![]() The novel's ambitions are larger than those of Blankets, and its subjects many: In just the opening chapters, Thompson gamely tackles nothing less than the roots of religion, the nature of masculinity and femininity, the lasting toll of physical and sexual trauma, our fragile relationship with the environment and, for good measure, why we tell stories to one another. Now Thompson brings that mastery of the alchemical mixture of word and picture only possible on the comics page to the much-anticipated Habibi, set somewhere in a modern yet resolutely mythical Middle East. Thompson deftly married spare text to often lyrical imagery to create in the reader the same exhilarating tension of first love that seizes his hero. In Thompson's 600-page semi-autobiographical tome, a young man gripped in the often-painful process of discovering his adult self attempts to forge a spiritual and artistic identity even as he falls helplessly in love with a girl who represents everything his life has been missing. How?Ĭraig Thompson's 2003 graphic novel Blankets is a book that people like me hand to people like you when we want you to understand that comics are much more than superheroes - that they are a medium, a singular means of storytelling with its own rich language, idioms and rules. Into Habibi, Thompson has merrily thrown stories from the Bible and the Quran, elements of the Arabian Nights and the poems of Rumi and Badr Shakir al-Sayyab, the great Iraqi writer. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Habibi Author Craig Thompson ![]()
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