Craig Thompson can build a comics page out of pretty much anything. In "Habibi" (Pantheon, $35), the writer-artist of "Blankets" uses religious iconography, Arabic lettering and the patterns on ...

Orientalism, journalism, and “The Lord of the Rings” were just a few of the topics that graphic novelist Craig M. Thompson addressed during a talk and book signing at the Brattle Theatre on September ...

Craig 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 ...

Craig Thompson’s “Habibi” was one of two major graphic novel releases this fall inspired by the West’s recent, disastrous interactions with the Islamic world. The other was “Holy Terror” by Frank ...