| full circle | November 10th, 2011 |
My first time to Europe was in 1995 for a two week community college scholarship. Note the effects of sixteen years of aging -
Just got home from HABIBI Eurotour yesterday. Thanks to all of you for your patience with the blog neglect. And tremendous thanks to my
Met many amazing folks along the way, including my oft-acknowledged inspiration Edmond Baudoin.
HABIBI travel continues next week, but this time on home turf – the state where I was raised and its neighbor. PS to Michaela who asked about my “educational background”. I attended UWMC community college part time for a year and a half, and MIAD for a half year. Then dropped out and worked as a bagel maker, telemarketer, laser light show animator, newspaper ad stylist, ad agency graphic designer, grocery packer, house painter, warehouse box-packing grunt, and graphic designer at Dark Horse Comics. 19 Responses to “full circle”Leave a Reply |
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November 11th, 2011 at 2:39 am
Dear Sir
When will you be in London? Can you let it know asap please? Because I have to book Eurostar tickets in advance!
Thanks
Liesbeth
November 11th, 2011 at 3:01 am
Hi Craig,
It’s was such a great pleasure to meet you in Lucca. I’m glad about your successful European tour and I’m sure it gonna continue in the States.
So, I hope Teresa and I would have the chance to see you both somewhere in a near future. All the best !
November 11th, 2011 at 3:40 am
It was lovely meeting you in Ghent, too bad the lecture at Sint Lukas Brussels didn’t happen, me and my classmates were looking forward to it!
November 11th, 2011 at 12:50 pm
It was great to see you and Brecht Evens signing/drawing at the bookmarket!
Liesbeth
November 11th, 2011 at 3:16 pm
I really really hope you come to London D:
November 12th, 2011 at 3:35 pm
I just bought and finished reading Habibi yesterday– what an amazing, touching story. It was truly magical.
I’m planning on coming to your book signing at the Book Cellar in Chicago.
November 12th, 2011 at 4:30 pm
I hope you come to são Paulo – Brazil again. I would like to have the chance to know you and thank you… Blankets changed my life
November 13th, 2011 at 3:13 pm
I remember you leaving UWMC. I had a feeling you were meant for something more than central Wisconsin, and you were!
November 13th, 2011 at 6:16 pm
I really, really hope you’ll wear the pins. It was wonderful to see you here, in Turin.
Take care.
November 14th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Is there a stop on your book tour anywhere near Akron or Cleveland, OH? I had the privilege of meeting you a few years ago at Wizard World Chicago when you were just starting Habibi. I live a bit further from Chicago now but would like to speak with you again. Hopefully, I will get that chance. Thank you.
November 14th, 2011 at 9:13 pm
That’s a lot of traveling! Sheesh!
November 15th, 2011 at 8:39 pm
16 years has been kind…and your taste in sweaters has definitely improved!
November 16th, 2011 at 3:51 pm
http://www.facebook.com/matthewadamink?sk=notes#!/note.php?note_id=308763462467534
Thank you for coming to Milwaukee! I gave you two of my comics after the talk at MIAD and you drew in my collection of your books, I really appreciate everything that you do. Thank you!
-Adam Matthew INK
November 17th, 2011 at 9:20 pm
Just got back from the Quimby’s talk! It was amazing and really insightful to your work and the world of comics. Thank you for coming and signing books (and my sketchbook)! What a great experience that I’m sure all of us will treasure. Looking forward to whatever comes next.
November 18th, 2011 at 4:24 am
Hello
I can’t believe you were in Ghent. Whereabout?
Please come back.
Koen
November 19th, 2011 at 11:13 am
Hi Craig,
Just read your interview with “De Stripspeciaalzaak” (the one where they showed you a of pages from a bunch of different European comic strips) where you said Islamic culture (whatever that is) chose to write books by hand long after the printing press was invented.
This reminded me of an article I read in a newspaper some 8 years ago (a Dutch newspaper, must’ve been NRC or so) about printing in Arabic. The article said Islamic writers knew about print but chose to ignore it because it’s no substitute for handwriting in Arabic (since, as you point out in Habibi – loved the book, btw – the way characters are joined together in Arab script is quite fluid). Even to this day printed Arabic is but a poor substitue for handwritten Arabic. The article (which was on a Dutch professor of Arabic who had supervised writing a computer program to do typesetting in Arabic properly) went on to note that printing was only properly introduced into the Arab (well, Ottoman) world when, in the 18th century (!) a protestant Hungarian refugee who had fled from religious persecution in Catholic Austria-Hungary (to this day there’s a sizeable Protestant minority in Eastern Hungary and in Transsylvania) started printing books in Ottoman Hungary.
Not that this is in any way significant or relevant to Habibi, of course. Just thought you’d be interested to hear about this.
Loved the book, of course
– Matthijs
November 20th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
bought a huge comic book today told ppl it’s the kuran
so exited to read it, had to sneak peek to it and its wow!
November 20th, 2011 at 4:31 pm
it’s been a pleasure to meet you in Lucca and to tell you how much yourk work is an ispiration for me. hope to see you soon in Rome!!
January 27th, 2013 at 7:27 am
Habibi is a really great book with a lot of social wisdom in it.
Just a detail: On page 250 + 251 you mention Aristotle as “father of biology” and Jabir Ibn Hayyan as “father of chemistry”. Their theories shown on those pages are simply completly false, not founded on any evidence and in no way helpful (that other metals are formed as combinations of sulfur and mercury is simply nonsense). In fact they blocked science from starting for several hundred years. What is presented in your book is alchemy and astrology which have nothing to do with chemistry and astronomy. The first real chemists and biologists had to fight against those fairy tales (and were not successful in the beginning most of the time).
But there had been some real scientists both in the greek world and in the ararbic world. An arab scientist calculated the diameter of the earth long before western scientists where able to.
…again: I really love this book.