Comments on: clunkerz

By: Naima!!!!

Naima!!!! — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 13:03:19 +0000

Hi-ho
I was thinking of you, and remembered you had a blog, and so here i am reading it… I can’t wait to see more! It looks promising. and it’s quite fascinating to see the process too, you know?
Hope you’re well me friend
Nx

By: calanda

calanda — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:34:47 +0000

sorry… just what I wanted to say is, that art indeed is expression, it is vivid, and it is alive… it is so beautiful, Chunky Rice is so beautiful, that it would take something of its beauty, if Chunky Rice would become a random “nice-blingbling-metal-thing” to buy…

By: calanda

calanda — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:52:58 +0000

Chunky Rice is cute… yes, but he is more than just a green stuffed animal! He isn’t human, although his reflexion are deep, showing a desire to find the place he belongs, inside and outside. Why isn’t he human? Because he is a turtle of course, and he is innocent! I think his vulnerability and his honesty reflect what we humans often are missing… not in terms of talking it out openly, but confessing it inwardly-personally… Chunky Rice is alive in the story and he even means something special to somebody, but he is also not, meaning he isn’t materialized in this world, the paper doesn’t make him alive, it is the story… therefore, why do people want him physicaly, to hold him, to show him, to look at him, if they would just see a cute art of him, but not Chunky Rice.

By: jess smart smiley

jess smart smiley — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:23:32 +0000

Hey Craig, I’m not sure how else to get in contact with you, so I apologize for messaging you via your blog.

I just finished my first graphic novel and it’s getting published by Top Shelf next year. I’m wondering if you’d be willing to take a look at it? It’s an easy read and a lot of fun and it would mean so much to me if you were able to read it.

Let me know. Thanks, Craig!

By: Fotini

Fotini — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 08:11:43 +0000

I want this little necklace so bad

“Chunky Rice” is really special to me – a few pages from it helped patch things up after a very long and bleak time with two of my best friends in the world. I owe you one Craig

By: Jullie

Jullie — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 02:21:26 +0000

Hi Craig! Huge fan of your works here. I’ve watched your interview in Belo Horizonte. I loved Blankets, it’s nothing but hugely beautiful. I’ve catched myself acting like the story sometimes. Some doubts and fears are universal, aren’t them? Hard not to see yourself identified.

Thank you for the beauty and awesomeness of this work.

A brazillian friend,

Jullie Utsch

PS: Hope you don’t mind my poor English skills, though

By: draingirl

draingirl — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 22:45:49 +0000

I like collages and your work.
Read blankets in no time.

By: Ann

Ann — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 15:37:43 +0000

Hi Craig,
My name is Ana Rita. I´m Brazilian and a big fan of your work.
Who introduced me to your drawings was my boyfriend. He gave me the book Blankets in the last Christmas and I fell in love, both the illustrations how the story.
My boyfriend, like me, is a great admirer of your work.
I would ask you, if you could, to draw me and my boyfriend. I would love to give this drawing as a gift a year of dating to him, because I know how much it would mean.
I am willing to pay for their work, unless it is an absurd price of course.
I wait a response.

Thank you.

By: jess smart smiley

jess smart smiley — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:54:39 +0000

comment #8 sounds all too familiar…

By: Armour

Armour — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:01:56 +0000

Ha ha! These are great! I wonder if you can share anything about the upcoming “Kissypoo Garden” from Top Shelf?

Also, I’ve been keeping a set of money aside for the last few months to get “Havibi” the nanosecond it comes out. I don’t think I’ve done that, simce I saved for my first skateboard as a kid!;