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I'm talking to you about a complete artist who offers unique works! Drop a like and subscribe my parakeet! Here is the menu: HABIBI Sold to a scribe when she has just left childhood, then educated by him, a very young woman sees her husband murdered before her eyes by thieves. However, she manages to escape them and finds refuge on an improbable shipwreck stranded in the middle of the desert, in the company of a child named Habibi. Together, in settings often surrounded by magic, they will grow up and live their lives in this strange place, trying as much as possible to protect themselves from the violence and harshness of the world, to the rhythm of the tales, stories, myths and legends told by the young woman... A dreamlike, erudite and sensual story, with an oriental atmosphere worthy of the Thousand and One Nights. Craig Thompson delivers graphic work of impressive sophistication, marked by the seal of the marvelous. -BLANKETS United States, 1990s. Craig has always lived on a poor farm in Wisconsin. Far from idyllic, his childhood was spent between an authoritarian father and an ultra-Catholic mother. It was difficult to integrate into society and Craig took refuge in drawing. But, little by little, his Catholic educators also turned him away from these pleasures deemed "frivolous". When as a teenager he met the charming Raina during a parish camp, it was love at first sight. The discovery of love - and desire - provoked in the young man a strong feeling of guilt, due to his religious education. The two lovers would follow their passion to the end and Raina, in addition to love, would give Craig back his taste for drawing. When the discovery of love - and the passion for drawing - saved a man in the making from the pitfall of religious fundamentalism. The birth of a leading author of his generation. Ginseng Roots 20 years after Blankets, Craig Thompson delivers a story between documentary and family biography. As children in the early 1980s, Craig, his brother Phil and his sister Sarah worked all their holidays in the ginseng fields of Wisconsin, in order to help their parents make ends meet. From this trying activity, Craig kept the love of comics bought with the money earned by the sweat of his brow and health problems probably caused by the pesticides massively used in intensive agriculture. It is by looking nowadays for a remedy in alternative medicine to his problems that he came to look into this almost miraculous plant, ginseng. Between documentary and family biography, the middle west and China, an investigation that we devour with passion. #graphicnovel #comics #casterman #bd