![]() His foreign publishers take care of his travel and, thanks to various old friends and the introductions he receives to several famous cartoonists, he is never lonely (or hungry: staying with a family in a chalet in the French Alps, he can’t get over the mountains of meat and cheese they consume). It is 2004, and Thompson, the acclaimed author of the now classic graphic novel Blankets, has left his home in the US, first for Europe, where he is to promote his work, and then for Morocco, where he plans to research the book that will eventually become the marvellous Habibi (2011). As its author notes in his opening pages, no cameras or mobiles were used in its making: his eyes and his brush pens did all the work. What I like about it most, though, is the way it acts as an antidote to the all-seeing, all-consuming power of the smartphone. ![]() Clever, funny and disarmingly honest, it is, of course, predictably lovely to look at Thompson is a master sketcher. But it has been long out of print, and this lovely edition comes with 32 extra pages, there to provide a kind of update on some of the people he met on his original tour across Europe and Morocco. First published in 2004, it is not a new book. C raig Thompson’s travel journal, Carnet de Voyage, is a comic for anyone who has ever travelled alone – and hated themselves for hating it. ![]()
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