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Craig Thompson was born in Traverse City, Michigan in 1975. He, his younger brother Phil and his sister grew up in rural Marathon, Wisconsin, in a fundamentalist Christian family. His father was a plumber, and his mother alternated between working as a stay-at-home mom and a visiting-nurse assistant for the disabled.
Blankets is an autobiographical graphic novel by Craig Thompson, published in 2003 by Top Shelf Productions. As a coming-of-age autobiography, the book tells the story of Thompson's childhood in an Evangelical Christian family, his first love, and his early adulthood. The book was widely acclaimed, with Time magazine ranking it #1 in its 2003 ...
In September of 2022, Dr. Thompson stepped down as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. He was succeeded by Selwyn M. Vickers, MD. Craig B. Thompson, MD, was President and Chief Executive Officer of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center from 2010 to 2022. Learn more about him, his background and ...
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Research. Craig B. Thompson, MD. The Thompson laboratory has proposed that the basis of metazoan cell survival is determined by the inability of cells to take up nutrients in a cell-autonomous fashion. This hypothesis was formulated to explain how multicellularity might have arisen during evolution. We believe the lack of a cell-intrinsic ...
Craig Thompson grew up in rural Wisconsin, where his access to media was strictly controlled by his fundamentalist Christian parents. But comics flew under their radar, so that’s where Thompson ...
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The work of Craig Thompson (b.1975) is influenced by his childhood spent in a fundamentalist Christian family in rural Wisconsin. He notes his access to popular culture was limited mainly to newspaper comic strips, which has been a major influence on his artistic style throughout his career. Blankets details his internal childhood struggles ...
Blankets 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.
