# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/craig-thompson
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:08:17.888Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/craig-thompson"
name: "Craig Thompson"
slug: "craig-thompson"
description: "Craig Matthew Thompson is an American graphic novelist best known for his books Good-bye, Chunky Rice (1999), Blankets (2003), Carnet de Voyage (2004), Habibi (2011), Space Dumplins (2015), and Ginseng Roots (2025). Thompson has received four Harvey Awards, three Eisner Awards, and two Ignatz Awards. In 2007, his cover design for the Menomena album Friend and Foe received a Grammy nomination for Best Recording Package."
tagline: "American graphic novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Craig_Thompson_BBF_2011_Shankbone.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1975-09-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           49.26
  momentum:             0
  historical:           13.61544933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://craigthompsonbooks.com"
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    title: "Craig Thompson"
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    title: "Craig Thompson"
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    title: "Craig Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Craig Thompson"
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    title: "Craig Thompson"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump