So last night I was randomly wikipedia-ing 
Craig Thompson (points if you know who he is), and when I saw his picture, I said, “Holy crap! He looks exactly like Sufjan Stevens (points if you know who he is)!”
The more I looked, the creepier the similarities became. Besides both having
- windswept hair the color of dew beaded raven down
and
- piercing, limpid green eyes that allow us to peer into their unfathomable souls
but they also were both
- born in Michigan
- born in 1975
- Fundamentalist Christians who had a crisis of faith that they explore through their art
- bittersweetly optimistic
- beloved of hipster females
It is bizarre! How could they have so much in common? Really, there was only one answer.
THEY ARE THE SAME PERSON.
It’s like Paul Dano’s “brother” characters in There Will Be Blood. Just as Paul Thomas Anderson used tricky casting to keep Oscar judges on their toes, the Brooklyn-based Jewish indie media conspiracy has done the same thing to keep the hipsters at bay so they don’t take over the universe as is their wont.
Speaking of Paul Dano, he and Wil Wheaton are the same person.
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Big Pun on Tue, 13th May 2008 12:40 pm
That’s not Craig Thompson!
This is Craig Thompson!
http://www.med.upenn.edu/camb/faculty/cgc/thompson.html
Lili on Tue, 20th Jan 2009 7:32 am
I agree, i have been thinking the same thing!
Scott McCloud | Journal » Archive » Music = Comics? on Tue, 3rd Mar 2009 10:59 pm
[...] Do comics artists have musical twins? I think some do. For example, I’d say that Craig Thompson is the Sufjan Stevens of comics. Midwestern roots, struggles with faith, gorgeous compositions, a bit weepy… They even look similar (in fact, I was googling to make sure I was spelling both of their names correctly and came across this). [...]
Caro on Sat, 4th Jul 2009 3:44 am
craigs better! i love him :)
simon on Mon, 6th Jul 2009 8:21 am
sufjan ain’t no fundamentalist, he’s episcopalian
Chance Mandate on Wed, 5th Aug 2009 12:23 pm
go star trek