The images engage not only my sense of sight, but also touch, with his distinctive brush strokes.
Thompson’s way of conveying the experience of falling asleep next to a partner for the first time is spot-on, with feelings conveyed both through the text and artwork. The experience of sharing a bed again arises when the teenaged Craig first stays over at his lover Raina’s house. Firstly from the childhood scenes in the book where Craig is shown sleeping in the same bed as his brother (with all the associated hijincks that come with kids sharing a bedroom). Craig finds love for the first time at a Christian holiday camp – a love soon to be tested by the interstate distance that separates his new flame’s home from his own.īlankets‘ title comes from a recurring motif of the book. The book is an autobiographical story which tells Thompson’s experiences growing up in small-town Wisconsin in a religious family. A 582+ page lump of paper, Blankets was mediculously crafted over a period of years, as the writer-illustrator Thompson worked day jobs to make ends meet. Much has been written about this awesome graphic novel, and I want to add my voice to the chorus. Rather, they are books which I discovered in those years.įavourite book of 2010: Blankets by Craig Thompson (released 2003) These are not books which were written in 20. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn is the other post in the series. This is the first in a two-part series about my favourite books from the last two years.
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