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Craig Thompson
Interviewed by Charles Hatfield
trimmed from The Comics Journal #268
Illustration ©2005 Craig Thompson

The original taped interview with Craig Thompson ran for some nine hours, which is considerably longer than even we could print. There was plenty of good material that had to be excised simply for lack of space. For this reason, we've decided to run the best of the bits that didn't make the cut here on our website. Our thanks to Charles Hatfield and Craig Thomson, who copyedited the excerpts available at the below links.

Excerpt #1Forty Days in the Wilderness
Excerpt #2Bible Doodles, Nickelodeon, and Working Toward Blankets
Excerpt #3Reading is Fundamental
Excerpt #4Drawing as Studying, Love, and Torture
Excerpt #5Drawing from Life and from Imagination
Excerpt #6Touring with James
Excerpt #7Blankets: The Album, and Drawing to Music


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