Beautifully rendered in pen and ink, Thompson has created a love story that lasts. Thompson has received four Harvey Awards two Eisner Awards and two Ignatz Awards. This groundbreaking graphic novel, winner of two Eisner and three Harvey Awards, is an eloquent portrait of adolescent yearning first love (and first heartache) faith in crisis and the process of moving beyond all of that. Blankets is the story of Craigs childhood teen and early adulthood years. It's a universal story, and Thompson's vibrant brushstrokes and unique page designs make the familiar heartbreaking all over again. Over time though, their personal demons resurface and their relationship falls apart. Under an engulfing blanket of snow, Craig and Raina fall in love at winter church camp, revealing to one another their struggles with faith and their dreams of escape. Craig Thompson's poignant graphic memoir plays out against the backdrop of a Midwestern winterscape: finely-hewn linework draws together a portrait of small town life, a rigorously fundamentalist Christian childhood, and a lonely, emotionally mixed-up adolescence. Blankets, at its core is a simple, timeless story (coming of age, first-love, alienation, anxiety, pursuit of spiritual identity, teen-angst) told thousands. " -The Guardianīlankets is the story of a young man coming of age and finding the confidence to express his creative voice. "Quaint, meditative and sometimes dreamy, blankets will take you straight back to your first kiss.
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