Craig Thompson’s Habibi

Craig Thompson the author of Blanket is releasing a new graphic novel, Habibi. It’s pretty much anticipated when his previous one was so successful and on time when emo was spreading like an ebola virus. Anyway check out the website.

From the internationally acclaimed author of BLANKETS (“A triumph for the genre.”—Library Journal ), a highly anticipated new graphic novel.

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.

At once contemporary and timeless, HABIBI gives us a love story of astounding resonance: a parable about our relationship to the natural world, the cultural divide between the first and third worlds, the common heritage of Christianity and Islam, and, most potently, the magic of storytelling.

672 pages
7″ x 9″
Hardcover
Fiction; Graphic Novel; Black-and-white drawings throughout
$35.00 (Can. $40.00)
978-0-375-42414-4

On sale September 20, 2011 from Pantheon.

 Here’s an interview of him from Inkstuds

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