In high school Thompson entertained dreams of becoming either a small-town artist or a film animator. 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. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package.Ĭraig Thompson was born in Traverse City, Michigan in 1975.
Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. Craig Matthew Thompson (born September 21, 1975) is an American graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), Habibi (2011), and Space Dumplins (2015).
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