Good-Bye, Chunky Rice (Pantheon Graphic Library)

Goodbye Chunky Rice is absolutely amazing. If you had to pick an example of a book to show someone where comics are now and why they should start hunting out the best examples of the art form, your best bet is to start here. The book is absolutely beautiful, black panel borders leading to immaculate artwork that has so much energy and uses simple cartoon figures to drive funny and hideously tragic richly emotional scenes home and, if you stand back, is obsessive in it's minute details with thousands of tiny brush strokes creating and recreating the sea and shadows like the most intricate woodcut. The interlocking stories of loneliness abandonment and loss both chosen and the result of fate take simple pictures and characters and make you feel heartbroken at their stories but you wouldn't make that investment in them if they weren't full and rich characters with the capacity for happiness and joy. It's hard to say anymore, look at the sample pages and buy it!

I dont have GBCR in front of me and I don't have a great deal of knowledge regarding publications of this kind so forgive my ignorance and please resist the urge to part the veil but to me this seems like the blueprint for the current affection for all things a bit 'Man-imation' and 'Man-apausal'. The current adult flecked humour in children's shows and heavy sentiment referenced in a sound bite during childrens hour programming hints at a cloying for the simpler times of childhood by their no doubt nearing pre-middle aged designers. The supposed innocence of this nostalgia is cast aside in GBCR and it peels the onion regarding friendship and the end of relationships, the fear of the new and the wisdom of strangers. It also employs a plain speaking narrator and if he were to cast an eye over the blah I've just pecked into the keyboard he might- in his (pre?) Gumpian dialect spout the blunt but true dictum "Fine words butter no parsnips". Me likes it it good.

Good-bye, Chunky Rice is a well bound softcover black and white graphic novel. Mister Chunky Rice, a turtle, is restless so he decides to leave his dearest friend, a mouse, Dandel and boards a boat in search of adventure. This graphic novel is rich with emotion and soul dealing with issues of loss, friendship and loneliness. While it deals with longing and missing someone there are also lighthearted moments and quirky characters, such as Captain Chunk and Livonia and Ruth the Siamese Twins "who are linked for life like the frigging chain gang". The story and artwork are beautifully woven and masterfully done. There are moments of quietness and reflection, depicted in the stillness of the water, the sunset, the empty sky and the wonderful seascapes. The book itself isn't long, perhaps short by graphic novel standards but it's the little truths and the emotion that Craig Thompson captures so eloquently that makes this book great. Highly recommended.

I like this , its a very sweet and sad well told story that makes good use of the medium . Its one that an adult can enjoy but which makes a nice bedtime story for the kids also .

Very nice short story

This is such a beautiful tale suspended in enchanting illustrations. I am a big fan of graphic novels and this short story from Craig Thompson is my favourite. Read this then go away and make a quilt!

My son (8) really enjoyed space dumplings so got him this believing it would be appropriate kids book, as described. He was really upset and disturbed after reading the first 20-30 pages as there was a scene where the young boy was forced to put puppies in a sack and drown them in the river, he did not even want to look at the cover or have the book in the house

The comic is great but the italian version is bigger, too bad, cause it deserves a bit more space to enjoy the drawings

Good Bye Chunky rice is a wonderfully illustrated quirky weird and sweetly sad story of Writer and Illustrator Craig Thompson's departure from Wisconsin the place which he grew up. If you have read Blankets by Craig you know that he is good at telling stories about himself although in this one he is a turtle. I had the pleasure of meeting Craig at a book signing he is a really down to earth genuine guy and very willing and eager to talk about his work. This item was shipped to me through Amazon Prime it arrived promptly and in tact. The book is the paperback issue.

i have read his book called blankets and it was awesome and so i bought this one as a gift. now i hope to meet her and i hope se lends me the book and i can read it and tell you what its about and how cool it is! hehe, i hope you love my review

After reading Blankets I wanted to read more of Craig Thompson's work so I ordered this and Habibi. This short graphic novel demonstrates the unique ability of this medium to surprise you with an incredibly emotional narrative. The tone is similar to Blankets, though the narrative, style, and characters are entirely different. There are a handful of graphic novels that have made me cry, and this is one of them.

Thompson's first comic is as lovely as Blankets, showing the strugle between love, family and the eagerness to find a new life