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Nov 30, 2024 | 
libraryjournal.com | Craig Thompson
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Bestselling Eisner Award winner Thompson (
Blankets) offers an introspective examination of his childhood in rural Wisconsin, exploring his family’s experiences working in the ginseng industry, a demanding yet humble line of work that profoundly shaped his upbringing.
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Nov 13, 2024 | 
medium.com | Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson·Follow3 min read·--The way we communicate is changing fast. With new technology like smart glasses, how we interact with the world and each other might look completely different in just a few years. A recent Marca article dives into Mark Zuckerberg’s big prediction: smart glasses could become our main way of staying connected, pushing smartphones to the sidelines.
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Apr 4, 2024 | 
onlineopinion.com.au | Craig Thompson
By Craig Thompson - posted Friday, 5 April 2024
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Peter Weir's The Truman Show turned 25 last year. Impressive when it first aired, it remains so in view of its deep engagement with the human condition in our media-ridden post-Christian world, under a cheery comic guise. Yet the film's comedic commitments finally distract us from the problem it seeks to highlight, and so from what life in such a world demands.
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Mar 25, 2024 | 
rsn.org | Craig Thompson
The stress our planet faces from climate breakdown is increasingly apparent from “breaking news” events such as wildfires, hurricanes and flooding. Such reports often emphasize timely evacuations or posthumous accounts of the damage.
A new film, Earth Protectors, focuses more on the trend of climate change and the people around the world who are being forced to adapt.
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Dec 19, 2023 | 
alpineobserver.com.au | Craig Thompson
Football Wandi students keen to follow in Daisy’s bootsteps Dec 20 2023 Updated 8 minutes ago By CRAIG THOMPSONFORMER Melbourne AFLW triple B&F winner and premiership captain, footy commen There's more to this story... Subscribe to Alpine Observer.
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Nov 4, 2023 | 
podcasts.apple.com | Craig Thompson
17 episodes The Vibrant Workplace Podcast is the show where you'll get ideas on how to attract, develop and retain happy, healthy people in your business for better business performance. Hosted by Craig Thompson, founder of Vibrant Talent, each episode explores with industry thought leaders how we can build a better working world for both employers and employees.
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Oct 9, 2023 | 
theaquilareport.com | Craig Thompson
When the Angel of the Lord saw the blood on the houses of God’s people, he “passed over” those houses and all inside the home were allowed to live. The Feast of Unleavened Bread was to serve as a yearly reminder of God’s passing over his people. The blood of the lamb also served as a yearly reminder that the death of an innocent lamb was necessary to preserve the lives of all inside of a household.
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Aug 23, 2023 | 
bookmunch.wordpress.com | Craig Thompson
Despite the generic term, few ‘graphic novels’ warrant consideration as novels, in that few of them share canonical fiction’s tendency toward a beginning, a middle and an end. Most ‘graphic novels’ are in fact merely compilations of consecutive comics, assembled for commercial rather than literary or artistic reasons, and typically ending abruptly, rather than concluding.
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Aug 21, 2023 | 
powells.com | Craig Thompson
by $39.95 New Trade Paperback Release Date: 8/23/2023 Upcoming EventBlankets: 20th Anniversary Edition (Drawn & Quarterly) is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely hewn linework draws together a portrait of small-town life, a rigorously fundamentalist Christian childhood, and a lonely, emotionally mixed-up adolescence.
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Jul 27, 2023 | 
drawnandquarterly.com | Craig Thompson
Craig Thompson“Quaint, meditative and sometimes dreamy, Blankets will take you straight back to your first kiss.” –The GuardianBlankets: 20th Anniversary Edition is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice.
