| number five is alive | January 9th, 2009 |
After seven months, chapter five of HABIBI is finished. It’s 125 pages long (the entirety of Good-bye, Chunky Rice)
And here’s a glimpse inside each one of those portfolios.
I look foolishly smug in that self-timer photo, but really it’s just fatigue. The end of 2008 was frantic – working and Posted in Habibi | 65 Comments »
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January 9th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
Wow. I can’t wait. Looks fantastic.
January 9th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
Congratulations, buddy! You’ve earned some time off, I’d say.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:04 pm
Congratulations on your amazing work. I am looking forward to reading the final book in the future.
Do you ever fear that something will happen to all those portfolios of artwork before you are done with the book? Do you have some one scan the art to back it up?
January 9th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Awesome, congrats. Can’t wait to see it.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
i can’t wait to read this, sir, congrats on finishing (look at all those sketchbooks!!!). how many more chapters?
i’ll have to buy many as gifts.
your brushwork looks to be at the peak of its expressiveness.
January 9th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
Only 4 more to go!!!
…..oh god…
January 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
you´re looking like sherlock holmes in that picture…
it must be really cool to be able to look back and see a pile of work well done. congrtulations! one day i´ll have mine too!
January 9th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Congrats! That’s an impressive amount of work.
Have fun on your trip…..
(and I like the smug/fatigued photo!)
January 9th, 2009 at 1:58 pm
congratulations! Hard work, Craig! I hope you enjoy your time off.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:11 pm
Wow that’s really impressive! I can’t wait to see this.
January 9th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Congrats! Can’t wait to get my hands on a copy, myself … hope you’ll be selling autographed/personalized copies and ephemera here?
January 9th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Congrats! It’s looks great!
January 9th, 2009 at 4:12 pm
Habibi looks fantastic. I am very sure that the hard work that you’ve put into this work is going to be well appreciated. I’m looking forward to reading this very, very much.
And the picture —> real cool. You don’t look smug at all, just pensive.
January 9th, 2009 at 4:56 pm
i love looking at your splash pages; i would consider them frame-able art.
those Itoya books are quite costly. someone should invent a really thick hardback portfolio for artists like yourself.
January 9th, 2009 at 5:13 pm
Thanks for sharing your amazing gift and vision!
January 9th, 2009 at 6:06 pm
Congratulations, Craig Thompson! Habibi will be as beautiful as your other books, I am sure (and by the way, those books are never on my shelf – always lent out to people who love them too much to return them with due expedience).
Have a fantastic vacation!
January 9th, 2009 at 6:18 pm
I really appreciate the dedication you show to the craft and your work. You know and I know that you could get away with less. So MANY people do. So thanks, Craig, for making the best book possible.
January 9th, 2009 at 6:49 pm
I can’t express how excited I am about reading the finished product at some point. You certainly deserve a vacation after all that effort.
January 10th, 2009 at 12:27 am
How tantalizing! Thanks for the glimpse into what is to come.
I don’t know you so I don’t know your looks, but I don’t think you look smug or foolish in that photo. You look thoughtful.
Have fun on your vacation!
January 10th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Habibi’s sure gonna make a thick book, are you sure you’re not going to have it published in two volumes?, because, as much as I enjoyed Blankets, my arm almost fell off, you know? (nothing compared to the last Absolute Sandman though)
Anyway, I just don’t see the day we finally have the chance to read it, as creative guy as you are, are you thinking of anything ahead of this project? project-wise, I mean…
January 10th, 2009 at 8:47 am
Your inking rivals Charles Burns… (in your own unique style of course). It’s lush and beautiful with a confidence few possess! I can’t wait to read it!
January 10th, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Inspirational
I can’t wait till I have a copy in my hands!
January 11th, 2009 at 1:41 am
Enjoy your time off.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:41 am
congratulations Craig, it looks SO great!
January 11th, 2009 at 10:59 am
We see you are writing another brick. This pleases Us.
January 11th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I just wish you could serialize it in large sections. Like release it in three books (each still a few hundred pages), and then release the “Compleat Hibibi” in a giant deluxe package next year. That would be great.
January 11th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Yay! i’m so excited!
January 11th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Wow, I’m so excited to read. It looks so rich and warm. Have fun on your vacation.
January 11th, 2009 at 1:29 pm
doing some long-overdue internet sleuthing / catch-up, for start of 2009.
merry xmas and happy new year and much hugs from across town and/or too far away.
-jon & megan & solveig & pascale (9 months old!)
January 11th, 2009 at 3:14 pm
Get a fireproof safe and lock those babies up!… wow. Your output is very humbling to the rest of us Craig, and thanks for sticking with this wonderful medium. Your talent is inspiring.
-Bobby.N
January 11th, 2009 at 4:36 pm
i am so so stoked for this book. re-reading all your other books this past weekend has really made me impatient for this one!
January 11th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
you consistently blow my mind.
my copies are always lent out too (unfortunately just to one guy…), but i’ve promised blankets to like 10 other people (…over the year that he’s had it).
when do you think habibi will… emerge? blossom? arouse? flourish? decant? be in my house?
January 11th, 2009 at 10:40 pm
How many chapters more? Or that was the last one?? thanks!
January 12th, 2009 at 12:56 am
happy new year.
i can’t wait to read it.
that portfolios looks so…. worth-to-read.
enjoy your week off.
January 12th, 2009 at 2:38 am
Congratulations! I´m waiting for your album now.
I can´t wait more!
Happy New Year from Spain!
January 12th, 2009 at 3:46 am
You don’t look smug at all. In fact, lemme borrow that top.
Great way to end the year.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:18 am
yeah, it looks amazing…
I also shiver at the thought you might lose all that job in a fire or a water problem ( kurt cobain lost some demos tapes like that once;) …that’d be a great loss !
Habibi looks like future reference for new artists that will come later on…there will be a BEFORE and a AFTER habibi, I think
keep up the pace
have a great week off.
francois
January 12th, 2009 at 10:00 am
Happy New Year’s to you!
January 12th, 2009 at 12:14 pm
Your linework is amazing. Habibi will be a really solid work. Thanks for the posts! I can’t wait to hear when it’s finished!
January 12th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
I’m glad you finished. I can’t wait to see it on the shelves.
And what a perfect way to spend time away from the snow.
I hope you bring back tropical pictures.
January 12th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
It looks really aweseme!Can’t wait yo enjoy Habibi reading!
Greetings from Spain and enjoy your vacation!
January 12th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
Like the chair!
January 12th, 2009 at 7:03 pm
GAHHHH! It looks great! I can’t wait to read it.
January 13th, 2009 at 9:18 pm
Amazing.
I hope you enjoy the warm water and time with friends!
January 14th, 2009 at 3:53 am
Happy New Year from Belgium, Craig!
Thank you for working so feverishly on Habibi! We all can’t wait to read the new Craig Thompson
Enjoy your time off!
January 14th, 2009 at 11:24 am
Thank you for making this. Everything you do on paper is worth my time.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:29 pm
Hey, those pages look amazing! Were you aware this guy in Belgium is selling signed prints of your work? I was wondering if these are legitimate…
http://myworld.ebay.com/badmarru/
January 15th, 2009 at 6:19 am
Woah!! It looks great already.
You’re amazing Craig.
Keep at it but remember to take care of yourself as well!
January 15th, 2009 at 10:39 am
Awesome. So so many pages filled with so brillant art. Can’t wait to hold it in my hands. You deserve the time-out totally. Happy New Year.
January 15th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
No me lo creo¡¡¡que bien que este terminado. No puedo esperar a leerlo aunque ahora estoy con Blankets. Espero que no tarde en llegar a España. Ahora a disfrutar de las vacaciones¡¡
January 15th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
I can´t wait to read it¡¡¡¡¡i hope we can read it in Spain soon.
January 15th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Yeah…and do you know when it comes to Spain?…well…do you know if it comes to Spain?
January 16th, 2009 at 2:08 am
I hope you’ ll enjoy your little break.
January 16th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I’M LOOKING FORWARD TO SPEND ANY NECESSARY MONEY ON THIS.
January 17th, 2009 at 12:04 am
I can’t wait to see Habibi on the shelves! Do enjoy your well-deserved break, you’ve more than earned it! =)
January 17th, 2009 at 3:25 am
Your Carnet De Voyage is the first Graphic novel (hope that is an appropriate term) that I have ever picked up, this was a few years ago. I truly enjoy your work, and find extremely inspiring! You have a natural flow that draws your reader in, and connect with them at the same time! I look forward to your future work, and thank you for opening up my world a bit more!
January 17th, 2009 at 7:21 am
Beautiful sight, it’s like a sequential quilt.
January 18th, 2009 at 11:48 am
I’m excited! You must feel relieved.
January 19th, 2009 at 12:11 am
Hey guys, he still has 4 more chapters to go!
January 19th, 2009 at 7:42 pm
Can’t wait for this book!
Do you ever come back to visit Michigan?
January 20th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Did you eat and drink at any good places on Oahu? Always looking for tips on good hang outs.
February 1st, 2009 at 4:44 am
Looking at that pile makes me shiver with the force of so much time and work concentrated in the same spot.
And it’s a great shot!
It makes me happy to know you’re working on this monster of a book and it will come out some day and I can read it. It truly does, and for some reason it gives me faith to do my own work.
You’re probably the artist I care the most for, like a far away friend. It’s not usual for me, but I know that’s what you make people feel; a friend of mine feels the same for ya, and I put it down to your being so awesome and communicative with your art.
I know you’re one artist I will follow my entire life and this makes me feel slightly less alone. Thank you for that.
Nicolas
March 17th, 2009 at 2:14 pm
Craig, to be completely honest, bearing my soul and all…I draw a large amount of inspiration from you.
You got me into comics with Blankets. Now I have a target to aim at. A goal? Sure. A greater purpose? Most certainly. That’s why posting the progress of Habibi is very important to me. I look up to you. You get me back to the drawing board.
April 20th, 2009 at 5:38 am
Craig, I just discovered your work and am really looking forward to reading Habibi – what an impressively ambitious project. I can’t wait to read it! I am a librarian in Dubai (originally from Wausau) and am looking forward to adding your books to our collection. Have you ever traveled to this region?
April 20th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
oh, i’m just catching up on this blog after some time away & this is such inspiring stuff! go craig go! thank you!