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  • Bibliography:
    13 Books
  • First Book:
    July 2003
  • Latest Book:
    May 2025
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Book List in Order: 13 titles



  • Dark Horse has teamed with some of today's finest alternative artists to create a collection of super-cool snail-mail stationery sets. Craig Thompson leaped into the comics spotlight with his highly acclaimed graphic novel Good-bye, Chunky Rice, a ch...



  • This here be the first ever “graphical novel book” by Craig Thompson. It was winnning a Harvey Award, no less. It documentates the once upon a time in our fishing village town and a short turtle lad name of Chunky, last name Rice.

    Mister C...



  • Africa is where the first people were born. It has many resources, from diamonds to corn. The book is a bright-colored, quick rhyming journey through the lives of history makers: billionaire businessman Reginald Lewis, Harlem Renaissance novelist...



  • Sprawling across an epic landscape of deserts, harems, and modern industrial clutter, Habibi tells the tale of Dodola and Zam, refugee child slaves bound to each other by chance, by circumstance, and by the love that grows between them. We follow the...



  • Have you ever experienced the beauty and serenity of a float trip down the Kaw (Kansas River)? Seen and heard Bald Eagles, Great Blue Herons, Least Terns and other wildlife from a canoe or kayak? Picnicked on a sandbar and learned about the Kaw and i...



  • Highly acclaimed graphic novelist Craig Thompson's debut book for young readers about a plucky heroine on a mission to save her dad. For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while...



  • A deep dive into a contentious and dramatic period in Canadian history -- the rise of a militant separatist group whose effects still reverberate today. It started in 1963, when a dozen mailboxes in a wealthy Montreal neighborhood were blown to bits...



  • A unique insight into an acclaimed cartoonist’s travels through Europe and Morocco

    Riding the international success of Blankets, Craig Thompson sets out on a tour across Europe and Morocco, promoting the various European editions of his bo...



  • Pietro is a gifted sculptor who is asked to create a work of art which his partners intend to be used for less-than-noble purposes. But then Pietro remembers something from his deep, dark past as an orphan which changes the stakes. Who will...






  • From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (the author of Blankets ) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms. Weeding and harvesting ginseng - an exotic medicinal herb that fetched huge profits in China - funded Craig''s youthful obsession wit...



  • What is the cost of caring? What are the dangers of getting involved? A small group of people find out the answers all too well after stumbling upon the truth behind the scandalous pastimes of the world's wealthy elite. But is there an...



  • Quaint, meditative and sometimes dreamy, blankets will take you straight back to your first kiss. —The GuardianBlankets: 20th Anniversary Edition is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative vo...



  • “A sweeping story, gorgeously drawn and beautifully told — this is Craig Thompson’s masterpiece.” —Joe Sacco, author of Palestine and Paying the LandFrom the celebrated author of Blankets and Habibi comes a new graphic m...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Craig Thompson has published 13 books.

The next book by Craig Thompson, Ginseng Roots, will be published in May 2025.

The first book by Craig Thompson, Dark Horse Deluxe Stationery Exotique: Craig Thompson's Chunky Rice, was published in July 2003.

No. Craig Thompson does not write books in series.