Craig Thompson is one of the more celebrated graphic novelists around. Each of his books is lavishly praised and awarded. But, for some reason, I just never like them as much as everyone else seems to. I thought Good-bye Chunky Rice was forgettable and Blankets was merely decent. So it was some trepidation that I picked up Thompson’s latest award winning novel Habibi. And, while I enjoyed it, I was still not thinking that it was as great as everyone makes it out to be. So, let’s go over Habibi and see why.
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