Bandits slit the throat of a scribe who marries a nine-year old girl at the beginning of one of this man's works, which uses a North African talisman as a framing device and delves heavily into (*) numerology to tell the story of the title character and Zam, two escaped slaves.
This artist debuted onto the comics scene with a book in which the title turtle tells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to his mouse deer girlfriend Dandel before leaving her for the ocean. Bandits slit the throat of a scribe who marries a nine-year old girl at the beginning of one of this man's works, which uses a North African talisman as a framing device and delves heavily into (*) numerology to tell the story of the title character and Zam, two escaped slaves. In another work, this creator of Good-Bye, Chunky Rice drew on his evangelical Christian upbringing to first tell the story of his relationship with his younger brother Phil, including their abuse at the hands of a babysitter, followed by the story of falling in love at church camp with a girl named Raina. For 10 points, name this award-winning creator of the graphic novels Habibi and Blankets.
This artist debuted onto the comics scene with a book in which the title turtle tells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice to his mouse deer girlfriend Dandel before leaving her for the ocean.
Craig Thompson