Harvey Pekar, and Craig Thompson's HABIBI

[mildmannered]

Two comics things: Last summer, I wrote a piece about getting to work with Harvey Pekar. The comic we worked on (I did the pencils, the brilliant David Lasky did the inks) went into the book Yiddishkeit, and is now up online here - just scroll down a bit, it's the first two pages in the excerpt.

But MUCH more importantly, THIS:



I review Craig Thompson's forthcoming 700-page graphic novel, HABIBI, in this week's Phoenix. WARNING: SPOILERS.

Oh my god, you guys. Oh my god.