Set in a timeless middle east, Habibi follows young Arab girl Dodola, sold into child marriage at 9. She is taught to read and write by her kind hearted husband, and her knowledge of letters and ...

For me, drawing is never divorced from the act of writing – my school notebooks were always filled with doodles in the margins. Here are my first research notes on the 3x3 magic square – a pre-Islamic ...

Greg Baldino writes for Bleeding Cool. The fuzzy gray border between language and image is no more apparent than in comics. From sound effect to the logotecture of Will Eisner's splash pages for The ...

You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an account. It’s a mark of Craig Thompson’s obsessive attention to detail that Habibi, his long-gestating follow-up to ...

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Craig Thompson has revealed that his upcoming graphic novel Habibi will be released on September 20. The Blankets creator's new book will be an exploration of Islamic culture. What to Read Next "Thank ...

In 2003, a previously obscure comics artist, Craig Thompson, published a graphic memoir called Blankets, in which he told the story of his evangelical Christian childhood, his conflicting feelings ...