When I first saw this at APE in San Francisco, I didn’t need any encouragement to pick it up as I’d already read and loved Craig’s Top Shelf book BLANKETS. Even then, when I sat down to read HABIBI one bright sunny Sunday morning in Los Angeles, I was not ready for the captivating, heart breaking and magnificent work of art that Craig created here. I had planned to read just a few pages of this outstanding graphic novel but as Sunday lunchtime came around I was not about to put HABIBI down and didn’t do so until I was finished with the whole book.