Craig Thompson
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
310 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"For Violet Marlocke, family is the most important thing in the whole galaxy. So when her father goes missing while on a hazardous job, she can't just sit around and do nothing. To get him back, Violet throws caution to the stars and sets out with a group of misfit friends on a quest to find him. But space is big and dangerous, and she soon discovers that her dad has been swallowed by a giant, planet-eating whale. With her father's life on the line,...
5) Habibi
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
655 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 them as their lives unfold together and apart; as they struggle to make a place for themselves in a world (not unlike our own) fueled by fear, lust, and greed; and as they discover the extraordinary depth--...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Craig Thompson returns home, into the heart of rural Wisconsin, to the former global capital of ginseng cultivation. We meet his sister Sarah..., and the Ginseng farmers who employed Craig & his brother as children. Craig explores the problems with autobiography, the nature of memory, and the editing that necessarily follows [in] a masterful mix of personal history set against a background of global trade, corporate agriculture, and climate change."--Publisher's...
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The seventh issue of Craig Thompson's Ginseng Roots follows the story of a family of Hmong immigrants that may have been the first to farm ginseng in America. The Hmong story is traced from CIA's Secret War in Laos, through the ethnic cleansing campaign in their homeland, to America's reluctant acceptance of Hmong as refugees. As they struggled with assimilation and discrimination in rural America, Hmong immigrants became the primary labor force...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Craig unearths the geological origins of the Ginseng-friendly Wisconsin soil, gets a grimy, back-breaking, and lucrative job of rock picking, and develops an alarming rocky lump. The issue also touches on rural gentrification, and how various varieties of Ginseng are recognized and utilized."--Publisher's website.
Author
Pub. Date
2020
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young Hmong boy sacrifices his childhood, his education, and his future dreams to help out in the family ginseng gardens. His father is torn between the traditional Hmong customs, shamanism, and his role as a Christian pastor in America. Spring brings unexpected death and mourning, but in fall the harvest must begin again. As markets change, a new generation struggles to continue the ginseng legacy. Profits have shifted to the retail side at the...
10) Ginseng roots: 3
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Unearths the earliest recorded knowledge of ginseng and its healing properties. From the mythic figure that first discovered it: Shennong, the god of farming and medicine, through tales of ginseng hunters in the mountains of ancient China, to the first ever International Wisconsin Ginseng Festival in the author's hometown. A red thread of history and time binds the ginseng buyers from Asia with rural growers in America."--Publisher's website.
11) Ginseng roots: 9
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"From ages 10 to 20, Craig Thompson (author of Blankets, Goodbye Chunky Rice, Habibi, Carnet De Voyage, Space Dumplins) and his little brother Phil, toiled in Wisconsin farms weeding and harvesting ginseng. The medicinal herb fetched huge profits in China and funded Craig's youthful obsession with comic books. Comics, in turn, allowed him to escape his rural, working-class trappings. For the first time in his career, Thompson is serializing his story....
12) Ginseng roots: 5
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The fifth issue flows along the 'crimson creek' of America's history with ginseng: from the Native people's uses of the plant, to French explorers' 'discovery' in 1716, to America's initiation of trade relations with China in 1784. Also learn how the debts of the American Revolution were paid, and how the nation's first multi-millionaire founded his fortune... and the when and why Craig's brother, Phil, started spending his salary on guns instead...
13) Ginseng roots: 6
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"The stratification, planting, and growth cycles of the ginseng seed parallel the seasons of childhood. Ginseng berries are gathered in the last week of summer, just before school resumes and brings with it the awkward transitions of adolescence, sexuality, and friendship-- or a parental decision to homeschool. Before planting, ginseng seeds are doused in bleach and fungicide--a purifying ritual of sorts--like baptism--which Craig and his siblings...
14) Carnet de voyage
Author
Series
Travel journal volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
224 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Craig Thompson traveled for three months through France, Barcelona, and the Alps, as well as Morocco, where he spent time researching his next graphic novel. This travelogue diary documents his adventures and quiet moments, creating an intimate portrait of countries, culture and wandering artist. -- taken from back cover.
